5-Silverlight3_FIRESTARTER_sketchflow-Janete Perez

SketchFlow Janete Perez Program Manager Expression Blend

Blend 3 Overview Recap
Silverlight 3 support
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Improve visual design tasks
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Make it easier to work with data
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Make interactivity accessible
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Enable prototyping

Why SketchFlow?
Great design has great impact on product success
Modern, highly dynamic UX is difficult to explore and design
Most traditional creative tools focus on production
Conceptual design is not well supported by tools
SketchFlow provides a set of features in Blend 3 designed to make prototyping faster, easier and richer
How does SketchFlow fit in to the Expression Blend Mission?

SketchFlow Overview
Informal and quick
Sketch ideas in a cost effective manner
Evolve sketches into interactive prototypes
Collect feedback and evolve idea

Prototyping Pain Points
Envisioning
Easier experimentation, exploration of ideas
Communicating
A pathway to communicate ideas
Reviewing
Collect user feedback, incorporate into designs

Demo Deep Zoom Composer “ The Prototype”

What is Deep Zoom Composer?
A free power tool for composing and exporting Deep Zoom content for Silverlight.
More info: http://blogs.msdn.com/expression
“ Deep Zoom Composer” tag

What is Deep Zoom?
Part of the Silverlight feature set
MultiScaleImage control
Provides the ability to interactively view high-resolution images without affecting perf

Purpose of Demo
Build a prototype of a real world scenario
Demonstrate the SketchFlow feature set
Blend 3: Bring it all together

SketchFlow Features
Envision
SketchFlow Map
SketchFlow Player
SketchStyles
Components
Communicate
Navigation
SketchFlow Animations
Review
Feedback
Annotations
Import to PowerPoint
Export to Word

Blend 3 Features used
Silverlight 3 support
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Import Adobe Photoshop file
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Design-time data
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BEHAVIORS!!!
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New asset library

Thank you! Janete Perez Twitter: @ janetep Blog: sunnypixels.com Expression Site: www.microsoft.com/expression Community site: http://expression.microsoft.com Blend Team Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/expression

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