The Silverlight Chimera

MICROSOFT SILVERLIGHT CONFERENCE: DAY TWO

Allow me to describe my Silverlight experience with this metaphor: If After Effects, Flash, and Illustrator got drunk at the Adobe holiday party and then got it on, the resulting chimera would be Silverlight.

Don’t get me wrong, the application is very powerful. It can create media rich applications that can boggle the mind! Check out how Hard Rock Cafe used Silverlight and a plug-in called Infinite zoom to bring their online memorabilia collection to life.

Pretty impressive, no? My gripe, as a designer, is that the creation of content isn’t all too obvious. How can my creativity be unleashed If I’m in a perpetual state software frustration!