The design phase
Some of you may also be having a grumble right now, because you were sold on this concept of “rapid prototyping” with Expression Blend from Microsoft, which is fantastic and exactly the process you would rather be taking to really speed up this entire design phase, except for one little problem: if your designers are not comfortable with Blend, then you are not going to get a heavily designed prototype.
Learning lessons from game studios…
For the most part, .Net developers are continuing to use Visual Studio the same way they always have, even when it comes to creating new WPF solutions, but interesting enough quite a few developers that I have spoken to recently also now find themselves working with Expression Blend.
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