By the way, an issue that I’ve seen a couple places already (and that I’ve fixed for the next release but I’m certainly not going to release a version of this app every week) is the issue of what constitutes a bar code number. Not seen in this video but available in the latest download is the ability to simply punch in the bar code number. What most people don’t realize is that when you have a bar code that looks like this:

The actual bar code number that we do the look-up on is this:

Overall, users would mostly be better off if they can manage to get a clear picture of the bar code and let the system sort out the number for them.

I’m also doing some Windows Phone 7 design and I want to have a place to go to look at as many videos of Windows Phone 7 in action to figure out how to design an application motion flow that fits with the rest of the app. Watch these videos carefully and notice that pretty much everyone is doing something slightly different for their motion flow. The same navigation concepts are in place, but the motion flow is different for many of the apps.

So… here is my collection of Windows Phone 7 videos and animations.

From Engadget:

(more at the Engadget post)

E-mail on the Windows Mobile 7 Phone

The AP application (by Archetype) (skip to 3:30)

Seesmic for Windows Phone 7 (skip to 6:40)

The marketplace hub

That’s all for me for now… I’ll try to update this with more examples later

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• Microsoft Learning personalization fail. The e-mail begins: "Hello [MATTHIAS ]," #
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• @maphet Have you read "Reasons for God"? The author starts out attacking exactly that tendency. #
• Tweetdeck needs 15 second delay to "Undo" mistyped or accidental tweets. #
• @maphet It's in the introduction where he basically says that if we don't take doubt seriously, we'll never learn or convince in reply to maphet #
• UX matters. RT @USABreakingNews: massive Wall St. selloff may have happened b/c trader entered [B]illion instead of [M]illion #
• RT @DavidJKelley: 20 Easy To Follow Photoshop Poster Tutorials http://bit.ly/aO26bj #design #
• RT @ingebretsen: video from dr. wpf. simple way to grok/use value coersion in silverlight. http://bit.ly/d0l1Es (w/ #kaxaml shoutout) #
• Everyone needs 8GB of RAM in their laptop. I don't mind the burn marks on my legs. #
• Dear Zune, when I sort my songs by rating, doesn't it make more sense to play the unrated ones before the ones I have marked as "hate"? #
• @hglennrock I download music albums at a time b/c of my Zune pass. Then mark the ones I like and dislike. in reply to hglennrock #
• Awesome visualization of the first five years of Ruby on Rails commits: http://bit.ly/bRdrSd (via @JeffClark @BrianBBrian @dhh) #
• @hglennrock I was so sad when I heard that. I used LaLa when I didn't have Zune installed. Loved it. in reply to hglennrock #
• RT @scottheffield: Great discussion thread on Silverlight vs. WPF for new apps. Read the comments. http://bit.ly/cuVPcE #wpf #silverlight #
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• Oh, capacitive buttons, how I hate you. I want to FEEL my buttons get pressed, damn it! #
• RT @edward_tanguay: Textbooks make teaching easy and learning boring. #
• Dear Microsoft Office Live Team, Do I want to save my document? The answer is always yes. Stop asking me. #
• RT @EATerrell: WARNING: If you're a graphic designer, this might make your blood rush: http://bit.ly/a6uawI #
• Utah is the only mountain state with a low gas consumption rate http://bit.ly/ajVtBf (via @karmadude) #
• RT @merhl: Developers, UX is not UI, learn that and stop trivializing! http://bit.ly/dusAo6 #ux #
• Taylor Swift, Simon Cowell and (drum roll) Gabe and Tycho http://bit.ly/bPBJe8 #
• @libel_vox Apologies. Fairness dictates that it could have easily said "Middle Management", "Project Managers" or even old school designers in reply to libel_vox #
• RT @adkinn: Don’t Wanna Know Plugin for Seesmic Desktop Platform http://bit.ly/c2IZBC #silverlight #removefoursquaretweets #
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• RT @scrivs: Android vs iPhone summed up in an image. http://bit.ly/cPe7cH | Too funny. #
• RT @libel_vox: 22" 3M multi touch monitor with 20 touch points? **FINALLY** something to run my bread-kneading app on. #
• Tonight, I pulled MYSQL data into a Silverlight app via PHP web service spitting out JSON. I am a god. A god who needs whiskey. #
• Wow RT @mattmckeon: So you need a typeface: http://bit.ly/biGPW3 #
• Installing Visual Studio on my new red dev machine. It has other specs too. But it's red. #
• Wow, I really suck at database design. #
• "If a hundred artists create art for five years, how could the result not be art?" http://bit.ly/9MVeev #
• RT @infragistics: Design for Delight – http://ow.ly/1At3n #
• Check out Pillbox, an open source Windows Phone 7 LOB app build in Silverlight http://bit.ly/bkZBSQ #

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• @heydebhenry You don’t think immigrants are going to resent financially supporting an aging rich mostly white population? in reply to heydebhenry #
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• Need United States vector maps for visualizations in Silvelright or WPF? You're in luck. http://bit.ly/baq0fE #
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• Watched the first half of @LBugnion's MIX10 MVVM talk on the treadmill. Exercising body and mind. Like a ninja. #
• Free Microsoft e-learning or certification exam for certain states… 26,000 vouchers in Mass! http://bit.ly/bCRBI3 #
• @mattmckeon If you've got some time, I was hoping to ping you with some interactive info viz questions… #
• Is @themotleyfool participating in Stupid Internet Joke Day? Trying to analyze articles for satire. Not very easy. #
• RT @flowingdata: Streamgraph code is available and open source http://bit.ly/9Vdclv (for @adamroderick) #
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• RT @themotleyfool: We see that Tom Gardner built himself a fort with bundles of the Fed's $100 bills. He'll answer only to "Your Majesty." #
• Wow. The Penny Arcade guys are candidates for Time's 100 most influential people http://bit.ly/b3kCCX #
• Classic visualization Baby Name Wizard upgraded from Java to Flash, usability and perf destroyed http://bit.ly/dy8CWU #
• @Pete_Brown I can't un-see that picture. You've ruined my whole life in reply to Pete_Brown #
• 2 MIT students spent $100 to catch up with 2 year old technology. Now: http://bit.ly/dwe96z 2 years ago: http://bit.ly/b6LQMM #
• @marshallUtah Hooray for reinventing the wheel! Why should we use existing technology when we can build our own? in reply to marshallUtah #
• @marshallUtah Here's the same thing at a cheaper price with a webcam 4 years ago. http://atlasgloves.org/ in reply to marshallUtah #
• Just so you know, Windows Phone 7 development? Insanely easy. So easy, I almost feel dirty. #
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• Hrm… Registration somehow lost my workshop registration. Trying to get the problem solved. #MIX10 #
• In @john_papa and @mtaulty's Silverlight 4 Boot Camp.. sitting in between 2 health care devs. #
• Is there anything less reliable for a demo than the Twitter API? I want to make sure my demos crash more frequently. #MIX10 #
• @LBugnion If it still works when I'm demoing it, I'll be so happy you can say whatever you want. in reply to LBugnion #
• Follow @xamlcoder for excellent updates on #MIX10 sessions and workshops. The man is a machine. #
• @jaredtpotter are you at lunch? in reply to jaredtpotter #
• Wow, mix sure changed their branding from last year http://yfrog.com/0sl40j #
• RT @justsomeguy: Design workshop at #MIX10 is going to have a nonSPOILER #wp7s bit at the end! #
• @blovesmath Hooray! Thank you for a great room, Microsoft… in reply to blovesmath #
• Did @arturot just call one of the sample designs "more design-y"? Yes he did. #MIX10 #
• The #MIX10 "Design Tools and Techniques" workshop has a lot of "initial" designs done in After Effects. Interesting. #
• @ClaudioASanchez Yeah… Seemed too much like someone else walking through an ASP.NET MVC book in reply to ClaudioASanchez #
• @tvanfleet (embarrassed)… I missed the first couple minutes. Dangit. in reply to tvanfleet #
• AH! The designers just deleted the ContentPresenter in a Silverlight Button! Will no one end the madness? #MIX10 #
• Guess what… it's Pi Day! (03/14) Someone at #MIX10 has to mention it… #
• @robertmoore That is tragic. I guess they just rounded pi down this year #BadMathJokes in reply to robertmoore #
• The Archetype #MIX10 presentation on design in Silverlight is just brilliant. Very practical. #
• RT @rickbarraza: AWESOME! CNN covered my Surface demo at #SXSW Watch part of the demo here: http://tinyurl.com/ybngxze | Congrats! #
• @ClaudioASanchez I'm in the second row front and center… in reply to ClaudioASanchez #
• Dear #MIX10 people not in workshops: stop having fun w/o me… I'll be out to play in an hour #
• In a "general" talk about UI development for phone applications… Windows Mobile 7 might come up. #MIX10 #
• Having so much fun working on my demos I almost don't mind paying so much for internet access #MIX10 #
• @nathandunlap Are you going to be where you are for much longer? I'll jump down there and say hi. in reply to nathandunlap #
• 3 years ago Microsoft gave MIX speakers brand new Zunes & Windows. This year at #mix10 even the t-shirts are gone. (via @lukewdesign) #
• In the keynote room for the "keynote you don't want to miss (wink, wink)" So I am told. #MIX10 #
• Did he just pinch zoom the Windows phone on stage?!?! Someone call the Apple lawyers! #MIX10 #
• It's great that we can use our design tools for the Windows phone, but do I need a 30 min demo that says "everything is the same"? #MIX10 #
• After the #MIX10 keynote, seeing people tapping away on their #PDC multitouch laptops makes me cry #
• About to grab lunch at #MIX10 Anyone want to join me? #
• OData could replace "Export to CSV" (thanks @shanselman for the idea) #mix10 (via @dodegaard) #
• Sitting near the meal hall sign (view from my seat http://yfrog.com/2ohszj ) #
• Getting ready to murder the #MIX10 wifi… sure would like to be able to pull a web service for my demo #
• At th house of blues with @DavidJKelley & @justsomeguy & @John_papa & … Well, hell, everyone is here #
• I just got the greatest shirt from @Estoychev. Look for "I XAML" for the rest of #MIX10 #
• @discorax you'll find out tomorrow. in reply to discorax #
• The Silverlight MIXer: it's the 100 people you want to meet at #MIX10 all in one place #
• Got kicked into the overflow room for the #MIX10 keynote #veracitygeeks #
• The girl in the #MIX10 visual studio keynote slides is freaking me out #
• Liking the OData demo, seems pretty powerful. Could be amazing for live data information visualizations #MIX10 #
• "with ODATA you can do you job with almost no work whatsoever" #MIX10 #DontTellMyBoss #
• RT @rickbarraza isn't Buxton supposed to keynote today? Cause I will so go to sleep if he's not gonna talk. #DONT_MAKE_ MIX_INTO_PDC #
• RT @nathandunlap maybe bill buxton will come out next to bring us unicorn tears and rainbow generators #mix10 #
• RT @a7an dangit guess i accidentally came to a PDC keynote… come on already. #mix10 #
• Bill Buxton: "NUI must be real; it's got its own wikipedia page" #
• RT @nathandunlap -… .. .-.. .-.. -… ..- -..- – — -. .-. — -.-. -.- … #mix10 | heh #
• Buxton is pointing out that "Natural User Interface" is dependent on what "natural" means #MIX10 #DamnStraight #
• Not really sure that the odd screen effects are adding anything to the Buxton talk #MIX10 #
• Bill Buxton is doing live user research at the #MIX10 keynote! #UXForTheWin #
• Buxton: "mobile apps have to respect a locative and social place to be successful" #MIX10 #
• I'm starting a #MIX10InvisibleSchwag hashtag #
• Wow! A free multitouch laptop at #MIX10 #MIX10InvisibleSchwag #
• Check out the amazing design book I got free at #MIX10 #MIX10InvisibleSchwag http://yfrog.com/3zsp2rj #
• .@davidjkelley shows off his silverlight/arduino project at #MIX10 commons. That's not a typo. http://yfrog.com/6c1y0j #
• Sitting at lunch almost directly beneath the "Meal Hall Sponsored by Microsoft Translator" sign #
• @ClaudioASanchez in the food hall near the "Meal Hall Sponsored by Microsoft Translator" sign, where are you? in reply to ClaudioASanchez #
• This is a problem, Microsoft RT @DavidJKelley: Talked to an attendee designer who thinks #mix10 has nothing to do with #ux and is about tech #
• At the Tacos & Tequila in the Luxor. Hmmm, what shall I have? #
• Line to get into LAX for #MIX10 http://yfrog.com/0bw5qwj #
• Hint: if you ask for a scotch at LAX, they give you JW Black. Yum. #MIX10 #
• If you run into the guys from Mentor Engineering, say hi… Very cool people. #
• Holy crap, the Microsoft LUX party is awesome. I take back everything bad I ever said about Microsoft. Can I have another drink? #
• A techo version of "the eye of the tiger"? I must be losing my mind. I refuse to believe this is real. #
• @ClaudioASanchez I need to get put of the LUX… The ethonol is doing vad things to my neurons in reply to ClaudioASanchez #
• 90 minutes to my #MIX10 presentation and one of my key demos breaks. Hooray for backups #
• In my session room. Everyone book it over to Lagoon F for information visualization in silverlight #MIX10 #
• #MIX10 tweet visualization prep: #MIX10 #MIX10 #MIX10 #MIX10 #MIX10 #
• Finished my #MIX10 info viz talk a little early, wishing I had talked a little slower & breathed more than twice #
• Thanks to everyone who came to my #MIX10 info viz presentation! I'll get the bits online asap. #
• After my #MIX10 talk I gained 30-40 quality followers on Twitter. Hooray for community. #
• @adamroderick Heh… just sent you an e-mail about that. Ping me back when you can & let's figure it out. in reply to adamroderick #
• The geometry and aesthetics of stacked graphs (via @adamroderick) http://bit.ly/cSb0n2 #
• Not that they need my endorsement, but the guys at Archetype had a remarkable workshop on design in Blend #MIX10 #
• @victorgaudioso I'll try harder to keep on top of it. in reply to victorgaudioso #
• RT @ryantherobot: @svarcoe welcome back! take a picture! | Yeah, I want to see #
• RT @ingebretsen: 10 Favorite Open Source Fonts You Can Embed in WPF or Silverlight http://post.ly/TjTz #
• .@ingebretsen talks about fonts like a wine connoisseur: "This dry sans font feels oaky w/ a hint of vanilla. Very friendly" #
• My wife is reading the @infragistics comic to my niece. The 3-year-old is confused why dinosaurs bite computers. #
• Downloading the @MIX10 talks for watching on a Zune HD (thank you @justsomeguy) #
• RT @MSDN_News: #Dev Download: Bing API, Version 2 http://bit.ly/bi2Ayb #MSDN #
• Dear Blend team, thank you for the "Save Copy of Project" option. Without you, I wouldn't have had a presentation. #
• Posted the code for my #MIX10 information visualization demos http://bit.ly/cOGHjE #
• If you missed my #MIX10 Silverlight info viz talk, I've posted one of my demos http://bit.ly/cOGHjE #
• Oops… my #MIX10 video has been replaced with Nate Kohari's. At first I thought TV added about 6 inches. http://bit.ly/9OQeib #
• @mixevent Quick heads up, the video for my talk (EX12) is swapped with Nate Kohari's ASP.Net MVC 2 talk (EX10) http://bit.ly/9OQeib #
• @LBugnion The site is working for me now. Sorry I missed you at #MIX10 Maybe next year. in reply to LBugnion #
• My #MIX10 Info Viz in Silverlight talk is up! http://bit.ly/9OQeib Don't worry… it's short #
• video of my @ignitesaltlake mobile phone dev rap battle with @justsomeguy is up http://oreil.ly/a16Gv7 #
• RT @LBugnion: Blend add-in for the phone is a bit tough to find, here's a link: http://is.gd/aP1Hs and SDK http://is.gd/aP1J7 #wp7dev #mix10 #
• A huge thanks to the @MIXevent team for their work getting #MIX10 session videos up in record time. You guys are awesome. #
• @codenenterp One of the guys I met gave his first name as "firstName lastName" and his last name as his twitter handle in reply to codenenterp #
• If you missed it last night, code from my #MIX10 visualization demos is up http://bit.ly/cOGHjE #
• @mahoekst I've got 4 installed too (4.0.50303.0)… hrm, checked in firefox, Chrome, IE8. No idea. in reply to mahoekst #
• RT @edward_tanguay: …"I'm a lonely sysadmin, sometimes I shut down a server just so I get a phone call." Heh #
• Finished half of the @ingebretsen #MIX10 design talk and video file died. On the edge of my seat for the rest of it… #
• Anyone else having trouble with my demo visualization here? http://bit.ly/cOGHjE Let me know… #
• @mahoekst If you get a chance, can you check it again… I think I have it fixed http://bit.ly/cOGHjE in reply to mahoekst #
• @mahoekst Sweet… thanks! in reply to mahoekst #
• My niece is toiling night and day to figure out the meaning behind Gort the @infragistics dinosaur #
• @ingebretsen Go Robby! That is so awesome! Congrats! in reply to ingebretsen #
• Awesome! Someone hacked into my blog. 20 minutes of panic later and I've got it fixed. Damn hackers #

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