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• The New Iteration: A Whitepaper on the XAML Revolution

  Whenever we run a WPF or Silverlight training event or lab, the one question that is guaranteed to come up relates to the designer / developer workflow on a project team. In the old days of Win32 or Windows Forms, the workflow was straightforward (albeit extremely limiting). A lot of desktop application development teams I've seen, particularly in the enterprise, don't even include a formal role for a user interface designer. Although the development team might include a business analyst or someone in a interface development role who would be doing some basic interaction design and application flow work, the actual interface would be mostly designed and implemented by the same programmer who was writing the underlying logic. On the other hand, for the projects where design was taken more seriously as a core element to the success of the application, the design and development teams were separated into different silos. The design team would often present their output in the form of a color Read More... Posted Friday, December 07, 2007 8:26 PM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: WPF, XAML, Design, silverlight, blend, whitepaper, user interface, workflow

• nibbles: snack tutorials for hungry designers

  Celso Gomes has a new site up called nibbles : snack tutorials for hungry designers . In his words: The concept of nibbles is simple: snack tutorials for hungry designers. The tutorials will teach a few steps at a time, so they will be short and easy to follow - the perfect creative snack. There are a few tutorials on using Expression Blend and Silverlight already up, with content on Blend and WPF coming soon. New additions will be announced on the nibbles blog . Read More... Posted Thursday, June 21, 2007 12:57 PM from Even a chimp can write code | 0 Comments Filed under: WPF, Design, Windows Presentation Foundation, Expression Blend, silverlight

• Snack Tutorials for Hungry Designers

  Celso Gomes is an amazing interactive designer working at Microsoft who is responsible for the beautiful sample applications that ship with Expression Blend and did some of the earliest design explorations for Silverlight. Now he's come up with Nibbles : a series of "snack tutorials for hungry designers" that cover the use of Expression Blend to build WPF and Silverlight content. The site itself is a stunning example of Silverlight, with faded animations and transitions and accordion bars: it makes my own work seem feeble by comparison. Make sure you check it out - it's inspiring... Read More... Posted Thursday, June 21, 2007 12:40 PM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: Design, Expression, Sample, silverlight, blend, lab, tutorial, blogs

• Hours of Free Training on Expression Blend and Design

  Arturo Toledo (one of our ace designers) posted a reminder on an internal email list that lynda.com have heaps of free training on Expression Blend and Expression Design available as screencasts. The Expression Blend material is presented by Lee Brimelow (author of the well known blog thewpfblog.com ) and progresses through from a basic overview of the tool to specific techniques for dealing with text, animation, 3D, media, layout, controls and data. There's just over sixty individual nuggets - Dr Sneath prescribes that you take two a day for a month and you'll feel great! I haven't looked so closely at the Expression Design material , but it's similarly comprehensive if the syllabus is to be believed. Ted LoCascio is the author of the six and a half hours of material available here. They also have paid-for material on many other topics, including Expression Web. My only frustration is that they missed a trick by producing the material in QuickTime format. Hopefully they'll see the light, Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 05, 2007 4:15 PM from Tim Sneath | 0 Comments Filed under: WPF, Design, Expression, silverlight, silverlight streaming, blend