Tuesday, June 28, 2011

MarketsPlus Evolve: UX Inspiration from a Great Silverlight Application

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At Microsoft we often talk about "consumer" applications and "line of business" applications as separate classes of apps. Sometimes, applications that intersect both worlds come along. A few weeks ago, I was turned on by Scott Hanselman, to a soon-to-be-launched Silverlight application named MarketsPlus Evolve. My immediate impression was that this was an app with an attractive UI with very crisp UX, showing that a lot of thought went into the design.

    Just want to jump into trying it?

use userid of "demo" and password of "demo".

Here are a few screenshots of parts that just jumped out at me.

First, they have a nice pre-loader, without any spinning default blue orbs animation. That is such an easy thing to include in your own applications, but many folks leave them out. It makes an impression, especially when it comes to consumer apps.

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