Cursors are one of the most effective elements in our UI design toolbox. Done well, they provide a gentle nudge at the very spot where the user’s attention is currently focused. Done poorly, they can be a circus of distraction. Regardless of your design philosophy or skills, custom cursors should be on the table when…
A Brief Introduction to Win2D
Win2D gives Windows App SDK and UWP developers access to Direct2D. It’s a native-code wrapper around Direct2D, which is in turn built on top of Direct3D, arguably the fastest rendering technology available for Windows. As you’ll see in the next post, with the help of a GPU, it runs circles around traditional rendering technologies, it doesn’t compete…