A day in the life of an Integrator Laurent Bugnion Senior User Experience Integrator IdentityMine

Why do we need a new role?

The Integrator role 1. Communicator and Translator 2. Coach and Trainer 3. Bottle neck? 4. Domain expertise: a. User experience (Production designer) b. Expression Blend c. Understanding designers tools d. WPF/Silverlight infrastructure

The Integrator role

Blendability “The ability to be edited in Blend” (and Visual Studio designer…) Differentiate code in design and runtime Create design time data

Blendability

In case of “No Blendability” It kind of sucks… More XAML edition (manual) More runtime testing Edit, Run, Measure, Edit… Isolate the issue New application in Blend

Working with tools

Importing XAML Import from Photoshop, Illustrator (Blend) Export from Fireworks Export from Design n_Overview.aspx n_Overview.aspx

Working with tools Previewing Kaxaml Shazzam

Working with tools Inspecting Snoop (WPF) Silverlight Spy

Working with tools Measuring Rooler Calipers Various

Working with tools Cleaning up Pistachio g-pistachio-wpf-resource-visualizer/ g-pistachio-wpf-resource-visualizer/

Pistachio

Importing assets

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