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Blend Book
The Alchemy of Experience Design for Application
The first book on Expression Blend in Japanese has been written by 2FC. "Blend Book" is not only about technologies, but also about the importance of Experience Design and how it can be achieved with great management of the development team model and project life cycle workflow.The book is based on our own, real and extensive real-world experience.
Released on Oct 2, 2007 from SHOEISHA.
The sample data download here.
http://www.2ndfactory.com/bb/download.htm
Expression Blend Tutorial Book
2FC built the "Flower Viewer" reference sample that is the basis of this tutorial book.
It focuses on the development 3D animated User Interfaces. It uses rendered 3D modeling data and event handlers, making rich content easy to learn, following step by step process.
[Flower Viewer]
http://book.mycom.co.jp/wd/blend/
NIKKEI CLICK
This article is for "NIKKEI CLICK" magazine. It Introduces WPF with next generation SNS. It is based on application that 2FC developed as Demo for REMIX TOKYO 2006.
It compares Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) with Adobe Flash, and demonstrates how both may be used to develop Rich Internet Application (RIA). In addition to this it details how a next generation application may be successfully and cost-effectively built by demonstration, how designers and developers can work together effectively through the storyboarding, concepts, work flow and development stage.
NIKKEI SOFTWARE
"NIKKEI SOFTWARE" magazine interviewed Mr. Saito and Mr. Azuma, discussing the future, WPF and Flash in Vista.
It can be summarized with a user focus: it depends on what the user needs to do, and what the application is for. The most different factor is the designers' idea, and giving them a technology that enables it.
The report of MIX07 in Las Vegas.
The report of MIX07 in Las Vegas.Nine people from 2FC attended, researching and reporting on newest information that is relevant to Japan
MdN series of lecture on WPF.
This details the development of applications with Expression Blend weekly series aimed at beginners.
NIKKEI BP
With the rapid evolution of the web, we have to think about end-user Experience, and how this can be effectively delivered.In this article, we discuss the merits of Silverlight as a platform, and Expression and Visual Studio tools.
DB Magazine
Providing good Experience is the core concept of what "RIA" means. There is a lot of technology for RIA and clarify the each features (WPF, Silverlight, Adobe AIR, Java FX), also each development environment.
Web Designing
This article is introduction of Silverlight.It is easy to understand for the reader as a first step.Architecture, XAML, development environment, the difference of 1.0 and 2.0, designer/developer workflow and so on.
