Exploring Sketch Flow

Exploring SketchFlow
Frank La Vigne
frank@franksworld.com
Cap Area.NET Silverlight SIG

Philosophy
Great book
Reads a lot like a story
Written by Bill Buxton
Given out at MIX09

Bill Who?

End Product

First Sketch

Design is Destructive?

Design Process
Great Design Great Products!
Design process is important
Sketching and prototyping
Explore a multitude of ideas
Rapidly, timely, inexpensively

Therefore
a great design left behind a lot of rejected ideas.

Lower the Cost of an Idea

SketchFlow Enables Recycling
Layout
Controls
Animations
Components

SketchFlow is
a Tool for sketching & prototyping interactive applications
part of Expression Blend

SketchFlow Goals
Quickly experiment with dynamic UX
Fast, plentiful, disposable, inexpensive
Communicate design intent
Collect and evaluate feedback
Provide immediate business value:
Deliver compelling proposals to clients
Quickly and cost effectively

SketchFlow
An Overview: Demo

Summary
Fast and easy prototyping
Evolve from storyboards to rich prototypes
Present and collect feedback
Make prototypes real with navigation, data, behaviors
Significantly lower cost
for design exploration

Credits
Some content “recycled” from http://videos.visitmix.com/MIX09/C01F