The .NET framework 3.0 has been released! We’ve got three acronyms (WPF, WCF and WF) and one new term (CardSpace) that are ready for “release to market “. However, there’s one more acronym in the list that is part of the framework. The acronym is UX. UX stands for “User Experience” and it’s a big part of the 3.0 framework and Vista. UX isn’t just adding a reflection to all your images on your application, its goes well beyond that. UX is designing your application to handle low bandwidth networks, UX is designing your site to run in more than one browser, UX is using DirectX to render your application (hint: WPF), UX is getting the right people talking at the beginning so that there is common language and understanding about what you are building. As you can see UX is actually quite a broad. It’s not just about your UI design.
As we see more and more of the 3.0 framework start to show up in our everyday lives, don’t forget about that fourth acronym of the framework, UX.
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