Every now and then I give a talk about Silverlight and I always try to inspire and motivate people by showing great UX examples. In this post I hope to collect the best of the best. If you have any other cool examples, post them in the comments.
Windows Phone
- Windows Phone 7 - great short demo videos.
Pivot
- Pivot – a great way to visualize data and find patterns.
- TweetPivot – visualize your twitter friends using Pivot.
Silverlight apps
- WorldWide Telescope – turn your browser into a virtual telescope and view the outer space!
- thumba.net – feature rich online image editor.
- Silverlight showcase – an SL app showcasing many different SL apps : – )
Video
- NBC Olympics – this is the way sports should be consumed, watch what you want, see metainfo about the sportsmen and so on. Onfortunately only avaiable in US. For others check out this video about it: MIX 08 NBC Olympics overview
Business applications
- Microsoft Health, Patient Journey – one of the first business application examples, but it still awesome. As an added bonus, you can have a look at its source at http://mscui.codeplex.com.
- CAS PIA CRM application
- http://www.vadimv.com/ - Pretty impressive stocks app.
Deep Zoom
- Zoom.it – Microsoft Live Labs service that will deepzoomify any image you feed to it. It can also make a huge picture of any web-page, just enter the URL. As an added bonus, you’ll get back a nice short url.
- Hard Rock Memorabilia – great example of Deep Zoom + Metadata
- 44th President Inaguration – Photosynth
- Playboy archive – not your usual Deep Zoom navigation.
Also check out Deep Zoom Studio – they have a nice collection of Deep Zoom apps.
