Monday, December 03, 2007

How development has changed

When I started in development out of uni I was doing vb 6.0 and asp development. I could write code ok but my ui looked bad. I was just not any good at making things look nice and didn't have any interest in it.

Now for most of my projects and presales demo's I actually spend time in SharePoint designer making things look right even when I don't have to and you know what it's easy. I can actually do it without much pain at all !

Now I'm playing with expression blend as well, not quite as easy as SPD but definitely keen to get a bit more knowledge on what I can do in there too.

When even someone as design phobic as myself starts spending a bunch of time working on making things look and flow right, perhaps all the articles on the user experience age are right on track. Plus I've got visual studio 2008 on my machine too, looks like I'll be doing some good playing over the xmas break :)

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