[IxDA Discuss] Expression Blend a "review"

[Håkan Reis]

In  blend you have a real strength and that is close collaboration. You are
right that it's not a flash-like rapid prototyping tool. If you work in a
tight agile team I think this is an excellent and missing tool. In the same
way a dba really need to understand the interaction and visualization to
provide the right data, the interaction designers has to learn about what is
possible. Work togheter, pair-program in teams with designer/developer and I
suspect you will find this tool to be very powerful.

But you are right, the focus is Windows development or more specific .NET
development.

/ Håkan Reis


On 4/3/07, Dmitry Nekrasovski <mail.dmitry at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks Dave for a very informative review.
>
> I particularly enjoyed your comments on the 3D
> visualization/interaction features. From an information visualization
> standpoint, there are indeed very few usage scenarios where 3D
> interaction provably adds value to the user experience. It's
> unfortunate that MS chose to focus on this feature set, especially
> given its dependence on Vista. But then, the target audience seems to
> be Windows developers rather than IxD's working across platforms, so
> perhaps that's to be expected.
>
> Dmitry
>
> On 4/3/07, David Malouf <dave.ixd at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I put review in quotes b/c well, I didn't look at the entire application
> and
> > review everything it can do. What I did do was report back on my
> training
> > experience I recently went through as part of a project I'm working on.
> >
> > It is a bit long to post directly to the list, but I know that some
> people
> > are interested in Blend but haven't made the plunge yet.
> >
> > Summary: don't tread lightly ... This is not an application for the
> faint of
> > heart. It is a powerful pre-programming tool and when used with Visual
> > Studio and a great architect can be very good. I do NOT think this is a
> > designer's tool in the sense that we as interaction designers are hoping
> > for. Most of us who don't know VB or C# won't be able to use it for
> rapid
> > prototyping as it is exceedingly more complicated than even Flash.
> >
> > I think MS put features in here that are completely useless to me while
> > missing the big opportunity for the IxD community.
> >
> > You can read more here:
> http://synapticburn.com/comments.php?id=233_0_1_0_C
> >
> > -- dave
> >
> > --
> > David Malouf
> > http://synapticburn.com/
> > http://ixda.org/
> > http://motorola.com/
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