The design phase
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Wow that was confusing.
Wow that was confusing.Grumbles
My biggest grumbles right now as a designer working in Blend/silverlight everyday is that the tools needed to pull off great modern designs are not available. Expression Blend/Design still has some way to go before it can compete for industry standard recognition that Adobe currently dominates.Also, I have no idea why Working in a silverlight project in blend versus a WPF project, it does not allow you to use trigger/event handlers but instead forces you to use states. This is essential to add if they are going to win over the Flash crowd.