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April 17, 2008

WPF makes Designers and Developers friends again

I have been playing around with WPF for a while and have been blogging about some of the technical aspects on it. However today I will like to touch upon another important aspect of WPF and that is designer-developer connect.

Having worked on Windows Programming using C++, MFC etc for a decade and working with the various controls, it is a real pleasure to see the capabilities now available to WPF developers. It is true to a large extent that with WPF and XAML and the tools like Expression Blend, designers and developers can work lot more closely than ever before. The working closely is more towards the ability for designers to style the UI for the WPF application and the developers to write the code for it.

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April 07, 2008

Demystifying the ‘Differentiated’ User Experience

These days, Microsoft Evangelists are using a new buzzword – Differentiated User Experience’ -  to promote the capabilities of user interface technologies like WPF and Silverlight.  Needless to say, design community is scrambling to understand what this new term means and how they can build truly unique interfaces leveraging these technologies.

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