Microsoft Expression Blend

Design Ultimate Experiences Expression Blend is the professional design tool to create engaging web-connected experiences for Windows. Tours & Demos      Free Trial

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Design Ultimate Experiences
Microsoft Expression Blend, previously referred to as Expression "Interactive Designer", is the professional design tool to create engaging web-connected experiences for Windows.

Benefits

• Your Sandbox Just Got Bigger. Get involved with the new wave of next-generation applications that blend the best of the Web and the desktop. Design cutting-edge user interfaces and collaborate with developers to bring these stunning new types of applications to life.
• Art, Meet Science. Think of it as your virtual playground. Mix design elements such as video, vector art, high quality text, animation, pixel images, and 3D content with a full toolbox of advanced controls and containers to create engaging, cinematic user interfaces.
• Go Beyond the Browser. Give your users something better-better performance, better usability, better experiences. Now your designs can break out of the browser to leverage the full power of the desktop.

Features

• Efficient Collaboration
  Work together in a friction-free environment, sharing projects, code and designs for better productivity and quality. Quickly build stunning prototypes, and then turn them over to developers with confidence. Your designs can be used intact in the final product so you keep creative control. Developers no longer have to try to recreate them; play the hero and rid the world of "developer art." Open existing Visual Studio projects to re-design and re-skin the applications.
• Tools for Creativity
  Expression Blend opens the door to creating elegant and compelling user interface designs using a full spectrum of media types, including vector and pixel art, video, audio, text, 3D content, and animation. Work inside a rich, real-time design environment optimized for creative professionals to shorten the distance between idea and execution.
• Codeless Interactivity
  Add interactivity to your designs without writing code-just add fully customizable controls, from simply-styled buttons to sophisticated custom listviews. Easily connect interface elements to each other or to live data. Layout interfaces using containers that adapt your content and interface to various screen resolutions and form factors. Just drag and drop to add developer-written custom code or controls to your application.
• Deliver Better Experiences
  Deliver applications that are more usable and achieve greater end-user satisfaction and productivity. Leverage the full power of the desktop and Internet to provide your audience with big-impact, high-performance user experiences that drive brand recognition and repeat use. Easily create localizable and accessible applications for global audiences.

More Information

For more information look on http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/overview.aspx?key=blend

Contents

• Qty 2 DVD5 (Total Training and Visual Studio Standard 2005)
• Qty 1 CD-ROM
• Manual Expression Blend Quick Start Guide
• Card Expression Studio Flip Card
• Electronic License