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Future of Web Design 2007: Thoughts from a designer (at Microsoft)

Saturday, April 21, 2007

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Thoughts from a designer
Jon Harris, User Experience evangelist

Microsoft:
hard to use
unintuitive
ugly
designed by Engineers

Rich vs reach – choosing the right experience
Windows Presentation Foundation – allows designers and develoeprs to work together
Vista gadgets
ASP.NET AJAX – framework, hmv digital uses this
Silverlight – rich interface stuff
Expression studio – Expression Media has nice transcoding things

Designers and developers speak different languages, apparently that’s why stuff looks different at the end
[I think it's because designers design stuff which is sometimes impossible using tools available in the timeframe, and things change]
Apparently developers break all the beautiful designer-made eggs!
Expression Blend smooths the handover from designer -> developer. Allegedly.


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