1. Designer and Developer Workflow rfolkes@microsoft.com

2. Designer & Developer Workflow Designer Developer XAML

3. What are we enabling? People to build great applications

4. Functional Reliable Scalable Secure Performance Functional Reliable Scalable Secure Performance What makes a great application? Core Architecture Delights the user Easy to use Powerful Focused Flexible Delights the user Easy to use Powerful Focused Flexible User Experience

5. Production Design & Development Workflow Prototype Core architecture : Visual Studio User Experience : Expression Blend Core architecture User Experience

6. Design & Development Workflow Production Prototype Core architecture : Visual Studio User Experience : Expression Blend

7. Design & Development Workflow Production Prototype Core architecture : Visual Studio User Experience : Expression Blend

8. Design & Development Workflow Production Prototype Core architecture : Visual Studio User Experience : Expression Blend

9. Design & Development Workflow Production Prototype Core architecture : Visual Studio User Experience : Expression Blend

10. Delivering the experience… Visual Studio Development team Expression Blend Design Generalist Visual Studio Development Team Expression Blend Design Specialist How enable?

11. Enable design time data for the designer

12. Demo: Design time data

13. Photoshop/Illustrator Import Layers. Expression Blend preserves layer names, importing the layers as individual objects and layout containers Text. When you are importing Photoshop files, text can be imported as editable text objects or as flat bitmap images. Vectors. Vector art can be imported as editable path objects. Photoshop files can also be imported as images. Blend Modes. When you are importing Photoshop files, layers that contain blend modes can be merged. http://blog.sunnypixels.com/?p=101 Gradients. Linear and radial gradients remain editable after they are imported. Color stops are imported as gradient brushes. Opacity stops imported as gradient brushes to the OpacityMask property. Patterns. Patterns are imported as image brushes.

14. Behaviors

16. Demo: Behaviors

17. Prototyping If Ernest Hemingway, James Michener, Neil Simon, Frank Lloyd Wright and Pablo Picasso could not get it right the first time, what makes you think you will? Paul Heckel

18. Demo: SketchFlow

19. Creating a great Experience Production Prototype Core architecture User Experience Visual Studio Expression Blend SketchFlow PSD, AI, Paper Client 1: Ideas 2: Resources 3: Project

20. Creating a great Experience Production Prototype Visual Studio Expression Blend SketchFlow PSD, AI, Paper ALM/Visual Studio Team System Specs, Requirements Deployment