I have taken some new pictures for my Toy Comic Toolkit, some Stock Characters. I needed just some simple people shots where I could:
That is the update. It is a simple one, check it out I hope you like them.
It was a privilege to be part of the team for Microsoft® PowerPivot, a new product that will change business intelligence by empowering information workers with the ability to conduct ad-hoc data analysis on massive amounts of data.
I’m going to tell you a tiny part of the PowerPivot story which is how the product icon came to be.
A few weeks before the deadline for CTP2 I was asked to create a product icon for PowerPivot — sooner rather than later.
Here is what we thought… in the end :-)
But I’m getting a little ahead of myself. First we started with these sketches:
Consistency is great.
Predictability is better.
Simple isn’t neccessarily easy
isn’t neccessarily good design.
Testing is vital and unreliable.
Sample sketches exploring alternate ways to access site level commands in SharePoint 2010. (via Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering : UX Design Tools & Techniques)
Veronica and Sadie are on the gondola in Banff, AB
