Welcome to the premiere of the Expression newsletter!
Welcome to this first edition of the Expression newsletter for creative professionals. In each edition we will focus on the Microsoft Expression products that take your creative possibilities to a new level.
As Microsoft is constantly up to improving the power of these design technologies we will periodically bring you more content on all aspects of designing standards-based Websites, rich user experiences on the desktop and managing digital assets and content.
In this edition, we leave you a taste of the content this newsletter will deliver in your inbox bi-monthly: articles and interviews about Expression Design, Expression Blend, Expression Web, as well as Silverlight.
The Expression Team
Design is important to the future of desktop software and the Web. To enable the future, Microsoft has brought together top development talent from the industry in order to develop the Microsoft Expression products. The vision for these products is to make user-friendly creative tools that allow collaboration between designers and developers. Read more
Expression Blend enables interaction designers to create rich experiences with XAML, a new markup language for representing user interfaces in software. See how Expression Blend helps you create, deform and manipulate components via drag & drop. So you can design advanced interfaces based on rich media, animations, interactions and 3D – independently of developers of course. Read more
Find out why Expression Design may become a part of your daily workflow. Creative professionals will find many features within Expression Design that they’re accustomed to in other graphic production software. Read more
Manuel Diaz, CEO of groupeReflect, a renowned interactive agency in Paris, visited this year’s MIX, Microsoft’s conference for Web designers, developers and decision-makers. He was surprised and marveled by the cultural revolution actually happening within Microsoft: opening up to graphic and art directors, positioning itself around the user experience and heavily investing in the design and ergonomics of its own software solutions. Read more
Whether you are a rookie web designer or a real authority, with Expression Web you'll be able to create professional HTML pages that respect 3WC recommendations. Learn more about the layout tools that can be customised to suit your goals, so that you can design any site, from the most basic to the most complex one. Read more
 Gurdy and Mary Leete's Microsoft Expression Blend Bible presents lots of material on how to use Blend to create user interfaces that make heavy use of graphics, animation, 3D and video. Read more |
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 Missed the MIX07 conference in Las Vegas? All the recorded sessions from the MIX07 conference are now available on this website. Be sure to check out Lou Carbone's speech about the Emotion of Customer Experience. |
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 Total Training has created several compre- hensive learning videos to jumpstart your proficiency with the Expression toolset. Read more |
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 From understanding the concept of smart web design, to creating, editing, and maintaining web site, instructor Joe Marini, Group Product Manager at Microsoft, gives his insider tips for real-world web site design using Expression Web. Read more |
