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Amir's and Peter's Flickr Browser

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Originally it was the rather witty 'Flickr Browsr', although now an 'e' has crept back in to 'Browser'!

The Flicker Browser sample application which features in the recent Channel 9 video [1] is available for download from Amir Khella's blog [2] so please feel free to check it out.

You will need to get a free Flickr API key of your own and paste it in the file called FlickrKey.txt in order for the sample to run correctly. You can get a key from https://www.flickr.com/services/api/key.gne.

[1] https://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=157843

[2] https://blogs.amirkhella.com/wordpress/?p=33

Thanks very much to Amir Khella (Program Manager on Expression) and Peter Blois (Software Design Engineer on Expression) for collaborating to produce this sample and showing great developer-designer workflow in the process.

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  • Anonymous
    January 24, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    January 31, 2006
    Hi, thanks for your comments, which we value.

    > User experience isn't about the tools we create with [...]

    So, do you feel designer/developer ux is distinct from end-user ux? Or do you feel that there is only end-user ux, and that designers/developers are the end-users of their tools? There seems no doubt that the (end-)users of design tools do care about user experience. It is the Expression team's goal to provide tools which give a great user experience to designers. It is the goal of designers to give a great user experience to their applications' users.

    The workflow we're trying to promote will become smoother in time. But for now we believe that the Flickr Browser demo shows: 1. that a designer can ask a developer for a custom control which behaves a certain way, 2. that the developer is productive with WPF, and 3. that the designer is given a flexible and customizable control to be creative with.

    Over time, some of the work from today's step 2 will move into the designer's domain as the developer is called on to build more and more advanced logic as (end-)users demand more and more advanced functionality.

    Again thanks for the feedback.

    - The Expression team
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