Comments for UX Design, Motion and Interaction http://blendesigner.com Perspectives from a Design Integration Lead on Design, Motion and Interaction for HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery Sun, 30 Jan 2011 21:19:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on The awesomeness that is Silverlight Spy by Thomas Martinsen http://blendesigner.com/2011/01/19/the-awesomeness-that-is-silverlight-spy/#comment-46 Sun, 30 Jan 2011 21:19:24 +0000 http://blendesigner.com/?p=219#comment-46 +1

]]> Comment on Where are all the UX Designers for Silverlight/WPF? by Ted http://blendesigner.com/2010/07/08/where-are-all-the-ux-designers-for-silverlightwpf/#comment-20 Sat, 18 Sep 2010 13:35:26 +0000 http://blendesigner.com/?p=110#comment-20 IMHO, Microsoft needs to recognize where Blend stands in the market. The Blend Suite has made great strides with the latest version but has not been a consideration of most serious UX designers (at least the ones I’ve spoken with). As such, Microsoft has some catching up to do but for some reason they’re taking a different approach with Blend then they have when they’ve been [wayyyy] behind in the market with other products. This fact confuses/frustrates me.

When MS was trying to play catch up w/Access in the early ’90s they gave away unlimited free tech support for the product and it worked. When they were trying to gain market share on Netscape they gave their product away for free and put it on every copy of Windows.

What does MS do when they’re trying to make headway with Blend? They yank SketchFlow away from MSDN Premium users. Developers are right in SketchFlow’s wheelhouse because they could create quick and dirty prototypes like never before. Once those prototypes are complete a designer might very well get engaged to build out the final UI. SketchFlow is where it all begins and pulling it out of the hands of developers was a very bad move as the reaction has not been favorable (see the comments in jpapa’s blog below).

Until MS gets serious about taking Blend to the next level I think there’s going to continue to be a shortage of talent in the market.

http://johnpapa.net/silverlight/expression4launch/

]]> Comment on Where are all the UX Designers for Silverlight/WPF? by Nat Latos http://blendesigner.com/2010/07/08/where-are-all-the-ux-designers-for-silverlightwpf/#comment-19 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:13:58 +0000 http://blendesigner.com/?p=110#comment-19 I think Thomas nailed it on the head. Silverlight still has an aura of being geared towards developers.

]]> Comment on Great Codeplex Project for Animation with Silverlight and WPF by Danny Stonebraker http://blendesigner.com/2010/04/20/great-codeplex-project-for-animation-with-silverlight-and-wpf/#comment-18 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:39:47 +0000 http://blendesigner.com/?p=68#comment-18 Found out your website via bing the other day and absolutely like it. Keep up the good work.

]]> Comment on Where are all the UX Designers for Silverlight/WPF? by Thomas Martinsen http://blendesigner.com/2010/07/08/where-are-all-the-ux-designers-for-silverlightwpf/#comment-16 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:05:07 +0000 http://blendesigner.com/?p=110#comment-16 I couldn’t agree more! We’re really missing some UX designers for Silverlight. I know that a few books are on their way about SL design patterns but I think that they have focus on developers as well.

I think that one of the issues is, that Blend is to much development and to little design for designers. Designers will still prefer a tool like Photoshop and will leave the import task to the developers.

]]> Comment on Firing continuous storyboards one after another by Windows Client Developer Roundup for 3/29/2010 - Pete Brown's 10rem.net http://blendesigner.com/2010/03/22/firing-continuous-storyboards-one-after-another/#comment-4 Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:08:33 +0000 http://blendesigner.com/?p=37#comment-4 [...] Firing continuous storyboards one after another (Blend) (Tony Corneto) [...]

]]> Comment on Blend and multiple xaps in a single solution by blendesigner http://blendesigner.com/2010/03/07/blend-and-multiple-xaps-in-a-single-solution/#comment-3 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:57:19 +0000 http://blendesigner.com/?p=9#comment-3 Ivana,
I’m not Arturo but I’m a big fan of his. My name is Tony Corneto and I work in Expression Blend like Arturo does.
Thanks for checking out my blog.
Tony

]]> Comment on Blend and multiple xaps in a single solution by Ivana Tilca http://blendesigner.com/2010/03/07/blend-and-multiple-xaps-in-a-single-solution/#comment-2 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:49:52 +0000 http://blendesigner.com/?p=9#comment-2 Hi arturo! i am ivana from argentina dont know if you remember me, silvelright fan. just wanted to wish you good luck with the blog, and i will be following you! :)

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