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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">Creating Great UX with Expression Blend</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2010-04-13T18:00:00" datetime="2010-04-13T18:00:00">Tuesday, April 13, 2010 from 6</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2010-04-13T21:00:00" datetime="2010-04-13T21:00:00">9pm</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202390594'><span class='fn org p-name'>Webtrends</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">851 SW 6th Ave., Suite 1600</div> <span class="locality p-locality">Portland</span> , <span class="region p-region">OR</span> <span class="postal-code p-postal-code">97204</span> <div class="country-name p-country-name">US</div> (<a href='https://maps.google.com/maps?q=851%20SW%206th%20Ave.,%20Suite%201600,%20Portland%20OR%2097204%20US'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <p>WHO: Corrina Black Corrina Black grew up sketching pictures and cartoons, but didn’t turn to design until she discovered the Web and taught herself to design and code simple websites. She focused instinctively on user flow, interaction, and attractive solutions. Corrina is currently a UX Designer on the Microsoft Developer Division team. To broaden her impact, Corrina pursued a software engineering degree to combine with her passion for user experience design. For Corrina, user experience is what matters. A product that doesn’t solve a problem, is difficult to use, and doesn’t draw the user in, regardless of how amazing the technology, will fail.</p> <p>TOPIC: Creating Great UX with Expression Blend Corrina will do an intro to Blend and walkthrough the process of creating a great user experience; this will involve SketchFlow because detailing and iterating on user flow, layout, and animations and transitions prior to full-scale implementation is key to great UX design and this is done in tools like SketchFlow. She will also likely walkthrough the process of building a simple application in Blend to show the core functionality of Blend (maybe create a phone application).</p> <p>Warmup - The Reactive Framework (Rx) in Silverlight At the beginning of the meeting (6pm) our own Eric Sterling of Vertigo will be giving a short introduction to Rx. Have you had trouble writing asynchronous code (including unit testing code)? If so, Rx offers a compelling and syntactically attractive way of handling events.</p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="http://padnug.org/meetings.aspx?ID=210">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>