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  The usual #Surface suspects have been posting their Microsoft Surface tips on Twitter.  To avoid losing these design recommendations for this interaction paradigm in to the twittersphere I have collated the first 20 tips below.   If anyone wants to suggest further tips then please use the hashtag ...

Having read an article on how to increase one's productivity it got me thinking whether there is something missing from our design strategies. We want users to achieve their mental peak when using an application but what are we doing to encourage this?  Where is the Mental Strategy?  Research shows that mental performance is improved ...

  Ouch! Received an email this morning stating that playful design has no place in a business context!   For the last 3 weeks a small team of us have been working on an Enterprise Search application and we finally have something to show for our hard endeavours.  Our Microsoft Surface Enterprise Search demo rears it's pretty ...

In a previous post, Object Recognition leads the way for Microsoft Surface, I touched on how Microsoft Surface recognizes devices placed on top of it.  Microsoft Surface reads a small square 8-bit tag that is attached to an object so that users can interact with it.  The tag is a combination of dots that works like a barcode. When ...

  Childlike, in many ways, I retained that inquisitive nature which makes children so frustrating and adorable in equal measures.  Not a thing escapes Isobel’s attention without the questioning of what is that daddy? The Internet gives me access to such a wealth of information and satisfies my urges as an information whore.  ...

At the Tesco wine fair the Microsoft Surface table turns from a bar in to a rich immersive experience for the wine enthusiasts to explore content though touch and natural gestures. The punters had their own take on the five Ss in tasting wine.  So as spit became swallow and their hand-eye coordination slowly declined over the day, you ...

During the Surface workout Isobel demonstrated the magic of Microsoft Surface.  The one feature of Microsoft Surface that Bel didn’t touch on was object recognition.  Yet object recognition is one of the features of Microsoft Surface that really excites me. The five cameras inside the unit can recognise objects placed on the ...