Today represents a significant moment in music history, as millions of eyes focus on one single event – the memorial of Michael Jackson, the King of Pop and one of the greatest entertainers in history. TV stations worldwide are covering this...

Learn the simple recipe to design the look of a glassy button. It is a very simple process as you will discover and surprisingly easy to replicate even for the non-designer.   Designing a Glassy Button using Expression Design Click these links to...

In this Principles of Design Series video, Arturo Toledo of the Microsoft Expression team, shows how to design a full colored icon (a pencil). In fast-forward style you will see the artist take a simple shaped pencil icon turning it into a full colored...

Learn more about how to apply the right colors for your user interface. In this video you will experiment how to apply colors to a user interface. Learn more about color while exploring Expression Design. Experimenting with User Interface Colors with...

Learn more about how to choose the right colors for your user interface. In this video from the Principles of Design Series by Arturo Toledo, you will learn a few techniques to pick colors that work well with each other. Choosing the right colors for...

Learn more about the point, line and form; elements of design (some theorists see them as principles of design). These elements are the foundation you can use to compose and design user interfaces. Explore these elements while exploring Expression Design...

Can’t make it across the ocean to see The Championships, Wimbledon next week? Don’t worry, neither can we. But we’re not going to let a few thousand miles get in your way of still having an up-close and personal experience this year. NBC Sports and the...

Learn more about Unity, a principle of design that will help you communicate visual cohesion in your user interface composition. Unity will help you communicate a single message even when using multiple objects. Learn more about Unity while exploring...

In this video, part of the Principles of Design Series, Arturo Toledo, demonstrates the basics of designing icons. Icons are a way to abstract a real visual object into a usually smaller representation that preserves the essence of the original object...

On Tuesday, June 22nd at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival 2009, Microsoft announced it will bring Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) recognized rich media technologies including Silverlight to Xbox LIVE within the next year. By extending...

In this video, one of many in the Principles of Design Series, Arturo Toledo, shows how to create patterns (mosaic, tiles) with Expression Design. Watch and discover how easy it is to create your own patterns in Expression Design so you can then reuse...

In this video from the Principles of Design Series, Arturo Toledo of the Expression team at Microsoft, demonstrates Emphasis, a basic principle of design. Watch this video to learn more about the concept of Emphasis while using Expression Design. Principles...

This Principles of Design Series video describes Symmetry and Asymmetry, two styles of composition you can use in your user interface design. Watch this video to learn more about these concepts while exploring Expression Design.  There are 13 videos...

We’re always excited to announce new experiences on the Silverlight platform, but this one is particularly sweet: Photobucket has just launched their new Visual Search, powered by Silverlight and Windows Live. When Photobucket wanted to develop a new...

How would you share the largest and most valuable collection of rock memorabilia with the world? Hard Rock, along with their worldwide marketing agency, Duncan/Channon , and Vertigo , a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, turned to Microsoft for inspiration...

In this video, Arturo Toledo of the Microsoft Expression team talks about “Rhythm”, a principle of design that helps you define visual patterns that people will read to understand your composition and user interface layout. To learn more about Rhythm...

Silverlight is bringing magazine memories back to life through Bondi Digital Publishing’s Cover to Cover . Starting with classic issues of Playboy and Rolling Stone , Cover to Cover features stunning quality and lets you browse and search decades of content...

Yesterday, the Country Music Association (CMA) and Microsoft teamed up at the CMA Music Festival in Nashville to bridge the divide between the country music world and the world of technology. Using Silverlight Deep Zoom, Microsoft and partner Firefly...

France Télévisions partnered with Microsoft, Inlet Technologies and Level 3 Communications to broadcast the French International tennis tournament, held at Roland Garros from 24 May to 7 June 2009, live on the Web. This was the first ever application...

So what is Expression then? Well let’s start right off by saying that it isn’t Expressions plural, it’s Expression singular. Having made that clear, let me try to make equally clear what the Microsoft Expression brand is and more importantly how closely...

What is SketchFlow? SketchFlow, new in Expression 3, enables you to quickly create prototypes that demonstrate UI flow, screen layout and application state transitions which can then be effectively presented to your client for immediate feedback. How...

The upcoming version 3 of Microsoft® Expression® Web gives you new tools to produce high-quality, standards-based Web sites faster and easier: built-in support for today’s Web standards, sophisticated CSS design capabilities, and visual...

See how OriginDigital, partnering with Schematic, used Silverlight, Expression Blend and DeepZoomPix to create a unique user experience tool that integrates video and written materials for corporate PR and training uses. View this video as a WMV...

Using Silverlight, Expression Design, Expression Web, DeepZoomPix and Visual Studio, 2nd Factory in Tokyo created an application for Yahoo! Japan to track sites, images and video and photo assets by category. This tool allows Yahoo! Japan to compare content...

Want to see what happened this year at MIX '09? Watch this video for a recap to see and hear what attendees and presenters had to say about the show. [Linked Content No Longer Available] MIX '09 Overview Video