Microsoft Expression Blend [OLD VERSION]

Deliver applications that are more usable and achieve greater end-user satisfaction and productivity.

Incorporate high-quality interactive video across a wide range of resolutions and quality settings, including HD video.

Work together in a friction-free environment, sharing projects, code, and designs for better productivity and quality. View larger.

Expression Blend opens the door to creating elegant and compelling user interface designs using a full spectrum of media types. View larger.

Add interactivity to your designs without writing code--just add fully customizable controls, from simply-styled buttons to sophisticated custom listviews. View larger.

Go Beyond the Browser
With Expression Blend, "better" will quickly become the new standard with every project you can create: better performance, better usability, better experiences. No longer confined to the constraints of the browser, the designs you create with Expression Blend will leverage the full power of the desktop to give your users experiences they've never before encountered.

Expression Blend takes the very first lesson we learn in grade school -- cooperation -- to heart. This software is designed to let you work together in a friction-free environment, sharing projects, code, and designs for better productivity and quality. With it you can quickly build stunning prototypes, and then turn them over to developers with absolute confidence. Your designs can be used intact in the final product so you can keep ultimate creative control. Developers no longer have to try to recreate them; you can now play the "hero" and rid the world of evil "developer art."Expression Blend even lets you open e existing Visual Studio projects to re-design and re-skin the applications.

Tools for Creativity and Codeless Interactivity
Expression Blend opens the door to creating elegant and compelling user interface designs using a full spectrum of media types, including vector and pixel art, video, audio, text, 3D content, and animation. With it you'll work inside a rich, real-time design environment that's optimized for creative professionals to shorten the distance between idea and execution. Expression Blend also lets you add interactivity to your designs without writing code -- just add fully customizable controls, from simply-styled buttons to sophisticated custom list views. You can also easily connect interface elements to each other or to live data, and you can layout interfaces using containers that adapt your content and interface to various screen resolutions and form factors. Simply drag and drop to add developer-written custom code or controls to your application.

Deliver Better Experiences
The bottom line is that Expression Media will help you to deliver applications that are more usable and achieve greater end-user satisfaction and productivity. By leveraging the full power of the desktop and Internet, you can provide your audience with big-impact, high-performance user experiences that drive brand recognition and repeated use. And if the world is ultimately your goal, Expression Media lets you easily create localizable and accessible applications for global audiences.