Silverlight.net Showcase
Using Silverlight to promote Silverlight on Silverlight.net...we love recursive projects!
Silverlight is seen as Microsoft‘s answer to Flash, but being a new technology, driving adoption is key. Stimulant partnered with StepChange to create an interactive, juried showcase of leading rich internet applications for their flagship platform site, Silverlight.net…using Silverlight to promote Silverlight.
The tag cloud in the Silverlight Showcase
In doing so, we wrote our own framework to make developing in Silverlight faster and more efficient. Our end deliverable was extensible, wholly data-driven, and utterly bulletproof…and our framework made it happen quickly and efficiently. It was much more analogous to writing code for Windows Presentation Foundation, or even Flash, than raw Javascript, greatly accelerating our development process.
Our interaction design needed to support a nascent site at launch, but had to expand to showcase potentially thousands of applications as Silverlight adoption increased. Users are able to sort and filter the featured Silverlight applications by location, tag, rating, and much more.
Creating interaction beyond the computer.
From desktop to device, multi-touch to gestural, and portable to permanent, Stimulant creates magical multi-user experiences that bring people together.