If you think and design visually, Expression Studio is a perfect tool to enable you to create compelling, impactful and expressive designs for the desktop and the web. The visually rich technologies in Silverlight and .NET offer amazing possibilities to bring your creative ideas to life using a range of design tools purpose built for the task. Learn more »

Expression Web makes creating compliant standards-based Web sites faster and easier. With a state-of-the-art design surface that generates clean CSS, you can make design decisions on the fly, knowing that you're seeing a faithful representation of the final browser-rendered page. Learn more »

Expression Blend™ is the tool for interaction design on the Silverlight and .NET platforms and enables user experience concepts to be delivered with full fidelity, from the initial prototype to the completed project. Learn more »

SketchFlow prototypes are fast, easy and inexpensive to build, making it possible to create, explore and compare multiple ideas before moving forward with a solution. Learn more »

Expression Design is a professional design tool for creating graphics content that can be used within the authoring applications in Expression Studio: Expression Blend and Expression Web. Learn more »

Expression Encoder 3 provides the power of industry leading encoding, in a simple approachable interface to make it easy to prepare video for use in a variety of ways, including Silverlight on the Web. Learn more »

An effective, streamlined and powerful designer and developer workflow is imperative to deliver the types of compelling and engaging web sites, web applications and desktop experiences that clients expect today.

Expression Studio, Visual Studio and traditional design tools such as Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator combined with .NET, Silverlight and the standards based web enable the delivery of compelling results to your customers time after time, while maximizing the investments you’ve already made in the tools and technologies you employ today. Learn more »

If you think and breathe code, Expression Web makes creating compelling standards-based Web sites faster and easier. Learn more »

If you are looking to build applications that have cutting edge, compelling user experiences then you need to include a powerful interaction design tool like Expression Blend as part of your workflow. Since its introduction Expression Blend has helped break down the barriers and bottlenecks between design and development that have previously existed and hindered the application development process. Learn more »

SketchFlow enables you to rapidly create and prototype new ideas and effectively present them to your clients before evolving and delivering them as completed projects. Customers can test the concepts you are prototyping without installing any software on their machines, adding their thoughts through annotated comments which can then be viewed directly on the design surface within SketchFlow. Learn more »

Whether you're an expert or just getting started, building standards-based Web sites is faster and easier with Microsoft^® Expression^® Web 3.

If you think and create visually, use the state-of-the-art design surface to layout your Web page. You can make design decisions on the fly, knowing that you're seeing a faithful representation of the final browser-rendered page. Learn more »

If you think and breathe code, Expression Web has you covered there too with flexible support for a wide range of essential technologies: PHP, HTML/XHTML, XML/XSLT, CSS, JavaScript, ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, Flash, Photoshop files, and video/audio for webcasting. Learn more »

Expression Web 3 also includes the following full applications:

Microsoft^® Expression^® Design 3 is the perfect companion to Expression Web. Leverage existing artwork, or use intuitive drawing tools to quickly build sophisticated vector assets. Seamlessly transfer them to your Expression Web projects knowing that their fidelity will be maintained throughout the entire designer-developer workflow. For more information about Expression Design 3, click here.

Microsoft^® Expression^® Encoder 3 encodes a wide array of video file formats so you can stream live video from webcams and camcorders or screen capture your PC. Make simple edits to video files and enhance your media with overlays and advertising. Choose encoding settings, choose from a range of player templates and publish rich media experiences with Microsoft Silverlight. For more information about Expression Encoder, click here.

In many industries, an effective user experience determines the difference between products that succeed and those that do not. Rich Internet Applications are designed to provide a more effective and compelling user experience.

Expression Studio and Silverlight have been designed from the ground up to make it easier to succeed when creating these experiences by focusing on three key areas. ‘Going beyond HTML’ with richer graphics, layout, controls and video; ‘Playing well with Others’ because you need your application to work on many platforms and browsers and to connect to your existing HTML and backend web services; and enabling ‘Rapid Development’ using built in powerful .NET framework support and powerful design and development tools Expression Blend and Visual Studio. Learn more »

Silverlight enables you to create more responsive user experiences with the fastest runtime on the Web, keeping users engaged by combining animation, video, dynamic layout, vector graphics, perspective 3D, and effects with exclusive features like Deep Zoom. Learn more »

Expression Blend is a powerful interaction design tool for both Silverlight and the .NET platforms. Since its introduction Expression Blend has helped remove the barriers and bottlenecks that have traditionally existed during the design and development process and Blend 3 has evolved the workflow further, enhancing the designer’s productivity while enabling maximum creativity within the time constraints designers work under on a daily basis. Learn more »

Rapid prototyping and iteration of your ideas is now possible through SketchFlow. SketchFlow prototypes are fast, easy and cheap to build – cheap enough to be disposable, so you can explore many ideas during the design process. Learn more »