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Expression Blend: Engaging Web Experiences for Windows
Expression Blend is the professional design tool that lets you create engaging, Web-connected, user experiences for Windows. With hit you can quickly get involved with the new wave of next-generation applications that blend the best of the Web and the desktop. Think of Expression Blend as your virtual playground. Mix and match design elements such as video, vector art, high quality text, animation, pixel images, and 3D content with a full toolbox of advanced controls and containers to create engaging, cinematic user interfaces. With Expression Blend, "better" will quickly become your operative word: better performance, better usability, better experiences. Expressions Blend will help your designs break out of the browser to leverage the full power of the desktop, and once that happens, there will be no limits to your design capabilities.

Expression Design
Expression Design is a professional illustration and graphic design tool that lets you build compelling elements for both Web and desktop application user interfaces. This application helps you to expand your portfolio and collaborate with others who are defining the next generation of software applications. Expression Design is the perfect companion to Expression Blend, letting you quickly build sophisticated vector assets and then seamlessly transfer -- by way of XAML -- your graphics to your Expression Blend projects. You'll quickly be able to unleash your creativity with innovative vector drawing tools and non-destructive effects that you can apply to either vector or imported bitmapped images, and apply both hard-edged and organic strokes while maintaining the flexibility of vector paths. Expression Design has been built from the ground up for designers by designers. In other words, you can work with the assurance that once you hand off your projects to the developers, they won't lose any design features. What you create is what your users will see and experience.