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[Mini-Tutorial] Creating a Reusable Glossy Button in Blend
Creating a button is the “Hello World” example of learning Blend. In this tutorial, I’ll show to how to create a reusable glossy button with Expression Blend 3. The concepts I’ll be covering are: using gradient brush to create glossy effect turning graphics Read More...
[Mini-Tutorial] Blend 3: Rich Interactivity with No Code
The idea of creating rich interactivity without code should sound very appearing to designers, because we want to turn static UI into interactive prototypes and test out our design ideas quickly. In Blend 3, “Behaviors” are packaged, re-usable building Read More...
[Mini-Tutorial] Blend 3: Visual Data Binding
As your project evolves from simple sketches to prototypes, you may want to add some real interactivity to it. There are two useful tools in Blend make this really easy: Sample Data and Behaviors. This tutorial will focus on Sample Data and how designers Read More...
[Mini-Tutorial] Blend 3: SketchFlow Part II
Bill Buxton talks about the difference between “Sketch” and “Prototype” in this his Sketching User Experiences . (see the summary below) I agree sketching is an important part of the design process, but often times it’s hard to share our paper and pen Read More...
[Mini-Tutorial] Blend 3: SketchFlow Part I
Two years and an half ago, when I first joined Microsoft, we were getting ready to release Expression Studio 1. Expression Blend is a key product in the studio and works closely with Visual Studio. It was a great first step to support designers with visual Read More...
[Mini-Tutorial] Creating a Silverlight Video Gallery
As I promised in one of my  earlier posts to do a tutorial on how to create a Silverlight Video Gallery, here is the mini-tutorial (about 10 mins). It has two parts: Use Expression Encoder 2 to create a standard Silverlight video gallery Customize Read More...
Silverlight 2 "How-Do-I" Videos
Following my post on Silverlight 2 resource , here's a list of Silverlight 2 "How-Do-I" videos that have been added to Silverlight.net . 1: Using the Silverlight 2 Canvas     (35 minutes, 42 seconds) 2: Using Silverlight 2 Grids Read More...
[Mini-Tutorial] Share Your Presentation in Deep Zoom
Over the past several months, I went to many colleges and universities to talk about user experience related topics from Microsoft. After each presentation, students asked me to share my presentation online. I've been using Skydrive to share my large Read More...
[Mini-Tutorial] Create Your Own Video Play Experience
In my last mini-tutorial , I showed you how to publish Silverlight video experience to Silverlight streaming using Expression Encoder. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create your own video player template and reuse it on your blogs or websites. Read More...
Create a Resource Viewer Using Expression Blend
In an earlier post , I aggregated a list of WPF and Expression resource. The list is in plain test with hyperlinks. What I would like is to have a visual way to represent the links and resource categories. More importantly, I want to view links in relation Read More...
From Expression Design to Blend: a life of a WPF button
People are interested in learning about how they can use Expression Design and Blend together to create attractive UI components such as a great looking button. MIX University provides an excellent lab on the subject. I've included my own notes from the Read More...
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