The other day, I had so much fun with Xbox 360 with Kinect in a gaming shop! But I never had thought that Microsoft would give away the SDK for non commercial applications. Many things can be done with Kinect SDK, all we need is a Kinect device , Window 7 OS and Visual Studio 2010. To kick start , we can take refer Programming Guide and the SDK can be downloaded from here . Also there are some demos along with code available at MSDN channel9 .

Gesture based human computer  interaction methods can be easily implemented with the help of kinect. However, many such applications are possible with a simple web camera. Applications like Umouse an example for interacting through hand movements, AR toy from SourceBits which is an example for augmented reality using webcam. But Kinect make everything even more simpler with its infrared lazer projection and a camera together helps to convert the video data into 3D form, also it captures the Z – index of the object , i mean the distance between the device and the controller/object/user . Continue Reading »

Usability is very important for the websites with more user visits. Websites of University is very important to provide all kind of information for the students/prospective students. Especially course details and fee structure are the most visited pages in those websites.  I was going through University websites of  UK and I found few websites which got better usability and design compared to all other university website as found on Guardian.com Continue Reading »

I am sharing some websites form where I learned lots of design concepts, tricks, etc.

Smashing Magazine

Webdesigner Depot

1st Webdesigner

Naldz Graphics

Noupe

Spyre Studios

Six Revisions

Boag World

I am not going to give any review for these. I can say no words to say about these websites because they are awesome ( it also means am lazy to write about them). In short , they are nice place where one can find best tutorials, information about webdesign, etc.