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I’m an interaction designer with Veracity Solutions who has been working with WPF and Silverlight for a few years now. I started this blog because I noticed that everytime I went to Microsoft for some WPF or Sivlerlight thing-a-ma-thinger and I mentioned that I was a designer working in these technologies, all heads turned and I was bombarded with questions.

I think that WPF and Silverlight are fantastic technologies for designers and I wish more of them would give them a shot. Yes, it is a Microsoft technology (I can hear the boos from your immaculate Macbook Pros), but it is also wonderfully powerful and remarkably designer friendly if you can find some decent training for it (hence this blog).

And if you have ever met the team that makes Blend, you would know that they are a terrific team who are working extremely hard to make the best product they can to aid designers in getting exactly what they want in their applications.

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7 Comments

  1. Adriaan Wormgoor:

    HOORAY TO YOU :) I’m in the same position as you and it’s quite true that the tone of voice surrounding WPF development is quite software-developer-centered (SDC… gosh did I just coin something? :)
    Anyway, instantly added to my rss reader, looking forward to your posts Matthias!

    cheers,
    Adriaan

    20 December 2007, 7:30 am

  2. Scott Tiedemann:

    Matthias,

    I’ve benefitted a lot already from reading just a few things you’ve written. So, in the spirit of good karma, I thought I’d leave this little tidbit, in the very unlikely event that you didn’t know it already. It just took me forever to figure it out. :)

    I couldn’t figure out how to use Blend’s UI to create a style property trigger that would change the z-order of an object (other than a canvas) when you mouse over it. It seems like Blend’s UI lets you do just about everything else except that. When I wrote the xaml directly (below), it works, but I can’t see anything in the UI that would indicate to me “aha! that’s where you assign the value!”.

    If this is of any use, then I’m glad to be able to submit something in exchange for the benefit I’ve realized from the information on your site.

    Sincerely,

    Scott Tiedemann

    19 March 2008, 7:16 am

  3. XAMl Templates:

    at http://www.xamltemplates.net you can see a lot of styles for WPF, let me know what you think.

    16 April 2008, 10:10 pm

  4. Damian Antonowicz:

    Great work! This blog is just awsome.

    26 August 2008, 6:45 am

  5. xamlresx:

    Nice blog fantastic work!

    31 August 2008, 7:23 am

  6. Cade:

    Hi Matthias,
    I am a recruiter here in Utah and I am trying to find a C# / ASP.NET developer with experience in WCF and WPF. I work for a company called SolutionStream and we build custom applications for our clients. I was wondering if you knew of any WPF developers in North Salt Lake / Ogden areas that might be interested in a full time job?
    Thanks in advance for your help.
    Regards,
    Cade

    25 June 2009, 2:13 pm

  7. Allan Muller:

    Welcome to the world of Silverlight! I am looking forward to some more Silverlight xaml tutorials and your mac style scroll bar one was ace!

    22 November 2009, 3:51 pm

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