7. Introducing Expression Blend

I think design covers so much more than the aesthetic. Design is fundamentally more. Design is usability. It is Information Architecture. It is accessibility. This is all design.

Mark Boulton

This chapter provides you with an introduction to Microsoft’s interaction design tool, Expression Blend. I start with an overview of Interface Builder, the application iOS developers often use to build their user interfaces. Next, I provide a walkthrough of Expression Blend—its purpose and key features and how it differs in form and function from that of Interface Builder.

In the previous chapter we walked through Visual Studio and its features that enable you to write code and compile and run applications. This chapter is ...

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