Silverlight
An Introduction
Jeff Blankenburg
Developer Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation

these aren’t Silverlight

seriously? an “evangelist?”

seriously, though...

enough about me...
this talk is about U

UX

Establish a common vocabulary around user experience

User Experience

User Experience
User Interface Design

User interfaces that are applied
after an application and Web site
are architected are like pushing
icing around on a cake.
They can make something look nice
but not fix fundamental
problems, they merely hide them.

User Experience
User Research Design Planning
User Interface Design
Information Design Usability Testing

where have we been?

Developers
Designers
Create Implement
Artistic Functional
Traditional Web Development
Silverlight Development
ASPX
JPG
ASCX
TIFF
ASMX
XAML
PSD
C#
GIF
VB.NET
HTML

so what’s the solution?

+

what is possible?

streaming video

for the entirety of
11.1 million unique users
2.2 million video streams

in the first 4 days of beijing’s olympics…
in the first 4 days in beijing…
16.9 million unique users
13.5 million video streams
250 TB of data was delivered in 4 days.

3,500 hours of video is available.
3,000 hours of it was LIVE.

i now LOVE handball.

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improving user experience

adding functionality

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