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• 10.19.08
  Silverlight 2 is Released! Expression Blend, Silverlight 2 | (0)

  Earlier this week, we shipped the final release of Silverlight 2! This is an important milestone for us in terms of providing rich media and interactive experiences on the web. Scott Guthrie has a very comprehensive blog post on the improvements of Silverlight 2 RTW. Many of you may already have upgraded to the RTW version without knowing it because we've migrated Silverlight.net to the RTW version over a week ago. Later this month, people who have previous versions of Silverlight will be automatically upgraded to the final Silverlight 2 release. Couple of weeks ago, ...
• 10.14.08
  Oct. 22 Silverlight User Group Meeting Event, Expression Blend, Silverlight | (0)

  In the last Silverlight user group meeting,  Mano and Chris gave everyone an overview on Expression Blend and demoed the workflow between designers and developers using the new toolset to create Silverlight applications. In the next user group meeting, I'll take a closer look at the latest version of Expression Blend and show you some practical examples of creating Silverlight rich user experience using Blend and how both designers and developers can take advantages of the tool. Some topics will be covered include: Blend UI editing features overview Create an interactive button ...
• 09.30.08
  Jonas Follesoe and the miracle of Kuler for Blend Expression Blend, Expression Design | (0)

  Is there no end to the genius of Jonas Follesoe? Now he's gone and made an Adobe Kuler plug-in for Expression Blend and Design, making it dead easy to try different colour-ways and create them as resources for your Silverlight or WPF project. Check it out here: Announcing Colorful Expression Studio Add-In Then check our Jose Fajardo's post on using Expression Design for comps. I totally agree with him - Design provides a less constrained environment when you are in the conceptualisation phase, plus it can just do some things that Expression Blend can't (including my ...
• 06.12.08
  New Silverlight and Expression Blend Beta Expression Blend, Silverlight 2 | (0)

      Last Friday, we released both Silverlight 2 Beta 2 and Expression Blend 2.5 June Preview. This was a major milestone for us. Many features people were asking for in Silverlight and Expression Blend at last week's Silverlight User Group meeting such as rich UI controls, control skinning, and web services are available in the new release. ScottGu has a comprehensive list of new features in his post. Expression Blend Team blog illustrates the detailed new features in Blend and Deep Zoom composers in their latest posts. These are two great places to learn more ...
• 03.15.08
  Lo-Fi or Hi-Fi mockups? Blend Resource Dictionaries mean not having to choose Expression Blend, Prototyping | (0)

  I was taught to avoid high-fidelity mockups for as long as possible. But there is an important role for high-fidelity mockups as well. If only we could have both... I've just finished reading "Design Vision" by Luke Wroblewski, Dirk Knemeyer, Bob Baxley, and Jim Leftwich. (I make it a policy never to be more than two years behind in my work reading.) Quite a few points got my attention, including a discussion of the important role of high-fidelity (even pixel-perfect) mockups in the design phase. But I was taught to keep my mockups lo-fi as long as possible. ...
• 03.02.08
  Shanemo and DelicateGenius do ‘Artists in Residence’ Expression Blend, Prototyping, Silverlight | (0)

  For the last week Kordesy and I have been at the Microsofties' version of 'Artists in Residence' at Microsoft in Redmond. The idea of Artists in Residence is to give a developer/designer pair the chance to get some training and mentoring from experts while they work on a Silverlight project together over the course of a week. After some to-ing anf fro-ing we came up with an idea to use Silverlight to add interactive 'depth' to a traditional portal site. Check out the video to see how we went. Watch the first half to get the big picture, ...
• 02.24.08
  Beautiful Applications Design Methods, Design Thinking, Design Tools, Expression Blend, Innovations, MIX | (0)

  Technorati Tags: Thirteen23,MixMe,Continuum There's a great deal of talk about how Vista (when compared to Windows XP) doesn't provide value to most users. I think much of this stems for the fact that we have yet to see many applications that truly take advantage of the platform and have created applications that make us feel good when we use them. Of all the numerous designers and firms I work with I'm not sure anyone understands that better (or is able to execute their vision better with WPF and Vista) that a firm by the name of Thirteen23. Some of the ...
• 01.05.08
  Wireframing in Silverlight 1.0 Expression Blend, Interaction Design, Prototyping, Silverlight, Usability testing | (0)

  If you are a designer working on a Silverlight 1.0 project, or if you are working with designers, check out the video by Arturo Toledo entitled "Workflow of Silverlight with Expression and Visual Studio from the recent "Silverlight 1.0 Fire Starter" event in the US. Arturo talks about wireframing in Expression Blend and emphasises the importance of establishing a naming convention as early as possible. Wireframes Interaction designers typically create wireframes for user interfaces to represent the high-level interaction design - before visual design is applied. Typically, these wireframes are static, and created with drawing tools ...

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