An introductory conversation about what Silverlight is, what it can do, and why User Experience is SO important.

1. Silverlight
An Introduction
Jeff Blankenburg
Developer Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation

2. these aren’t Silverlight

3. seriously? an “evangelist?”

6. seriously, though...

9. enough about me...
this talk is about U

10. UX

11. Establish a common vocabulary around user experience

12. User Experience

13. User Experience
User Interface Design

14. 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.

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

16. where have we been?

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

25. so what’s the solution?

26. +

28. what is possible?

29. streaming video

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

31. 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.

32. 3,500 hours of video is available.
3,000 hours of it was LIVE.

33. i now LOVE handball.

36. the most popular videos of the last 24 hours

37. improving user experience

38. adding functionality

39. creating addictions