Microsoft Expression Blend Bible
Chapter One
Exploring New User
Interface Techniques
IN THIS CHAPTER
Discovering new possibilities for
user interfaces
Using animation, video, audio,
3D, and vector graphics in
application design
Choosing layout panels and
controls
Customizing WPF controls
Building your user interface
using hierarchical structures
Collaborating with other
designers and developers
Exploring new user interface
design paradigms
Expression Blend is part of a suite of new products from Microsoft that
aim at making it radically easier for designers and developers to collaborate
in designing extraordinary user interfaces for Windows Vista,
Windows XP and the Web.
Blend supports a new paradigm for user interface design for both Windows
applications and Web applications, primarily by taking unprecedented
advantage of two advanced computer hardware and software technologies:
* the hardware-accelerated 3D graphics that are common on today's
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