Are you a developer yearning to become a "dev-igner," a developer/designer hybrid? The old cliché is that developers make poor designers, and many developers needlessly tremble at the site of designer tools such as Microsoft Expression or Photoshop. Graphic design is a process, just like software development. If you learn the basics, you can soon turn out better user experiences and find inspiration in the world around you. In this installment of geekSpeak, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Frank La Vigne shares tips and techniques on how technologies such as Microsoft Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and XAML can help you retire the "battleship gray" UIs so often sported by applications. Turtlenecks and berets are optional. Your hosts for this geekSpeak are Glen Gordon and G. Andrew Duthie. The MSDN geekSpeak webcast series brings you industry experts in a "talk-radio" format hosted by developer evangelists from Microsoft. These experts share their knowledge and experience around a particular developer technology, and they are ready to answer your questions in real time during the webcast. To ask a question in advance of the live webcast, or for post-show resources, be sure to visit the geekSpeak blog.
Presenter:
Frank La Vigne, Lead Architect/Designer, Applied Information Sciences
Frank La Vigne is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Tablet PC and lead architect/designer for Applied Information Sciences (AIS) in northern Virginia. Frank started in software development when he was twelve, writing BASIC programs for the Commodore 64. He began his professional career writing Microsoft Visual Basic 3 applications for Wall Street firms in 1993. He then moved on to be the first Web master for a major book retailer. Frank then went on to develop a large multinational online banking project in Germany. In 2004, Frank became heavily focused on Tablet PC application development. Frank is also active in the developer community, speaking at user groups and code camps along the East Coast.
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