[IxDA Discuss] Is anybody using Microsoft Expression Blend

[Nasir Barday]

And it works the other way, too-- now that designers are essentially
developing interfaces, the final product probably won't be as efficient as
if a developer built it. We built a technology that allows Product
Developers, (even *gasp* clients!) to create products. Our engineers looked
at the code that was coming out of that and panicked. "Of course it's slow,
silly, you're optimizing it all wrong." And they were right.

The downside of having the developer build the interface is the mismatches
that occur along the way, and that's part of what MS is addressing with the
Expression suite. Tradeoff.

And sure, there will be non-designer developers who think they can design.
However, I've found that most developers don't care to do "the UI Design
stuff," but they have to because no one else is doing it. And by golly,
they've got some tight deadlines.

- Nasir