I'm a current user of Expression Blend and I think it is REALLY close ... about 60% of the way there. that missing 40% is painful. I have had good contacts with that team and I think that if we give them to 3.5 or 4.0 they might get it right.
What I see wrong with their current direction is that they are trying to solve the Designer > Developer workflow problem instead of trying to solve the designer problem and THEN the designer > developer workflow problem. Which in my mind, if you solve the designer problem, there will be less issues between the two. If Blend is not a good designer tool, then you haven't solved the workflow issue b/c designers won't use it. I think adding the additional role of "integrator" as I think they are now calling it, is a HUGE mistake. >From an MS perspective though, there are 20million MS developers, and MAYBE 100,000 interactive Designers (not developers). You do the math. ;) And how many of those designers are going to choose MS over Adobe? -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=25002 ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
