Telrock's original design brief stated that Opal should be "Outlook for SMS". That it should look and behave like Outlook in every way. This was, of course, a reflection of Opal's target audience: enterprise users who are already familiar with Outlook for email. Although I could understand the business need behind wanting to emulate it, I [...]

Web Applications have been around for years, what makes RIAs different? Answer: The User Experience. At Bits And Pixels we do one thing: Architect Rich Internet Experiences. Although it's our tagline and may appear to be blatant marketing speak, it's not. Our focus in RIA development is usability and the user experience. It is [...]

Welcome to the Opal UI Case Study series by Bits And Pixels. Opal is the Enterprise SMS Messaging RIA that Bits And Pixels built in conjunction with Ali McLeod and Steven Webster for Telrock Communications. In this series, I will take you through Opal's user interface, highlighting some of the usability and UI design decisions that [...]

As part of reviving the What Is Flash Wiki, I restarted the scheduled automatic daily backups of the database from the web server to my local backup machine and thought it would be nice to share with you how I achieve this as it involves JScript for scripting Windows and JScript is a close cousin [...]

I have just revived the What Is Flash project. More information is available on the What Is Flash Announcements page