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Paul LabergeWeb Platform AdvisorMicrosoft Canada
Two years and an half ago, when I first joined Microsoft, we were getting ready to release Expression Studio 1. Expression Blend is a key product in the studio and works closely with Visual Studio. It was a great first step to support designers with visual tools to help them build rich interactive web and client. However, both Blend1 and Blend 2 were focused on supporting the final design within the production phrase. Much of the work designers do with in the ideation and early prototyping stages were not well supported.
The figure below illustrate a typical iterative design process, and the highlighted rectangle shows the final design phrase that Blend 1 & 2 supported. Many designers I talked to have this question: Would Blend support conceptual design and interaction design in the future and would it integrate with your Office suites? The answer is YES!
Blend 3 Beta was announced at MIX this year, and the SketchFlow demo generated lots of excitement among the designer community. After MIX, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on SketchFlow, and I know a lot of you are patiently waiting the release of Blend 3 which includes SketchFlow. So, l thought to record my learning experience with Blend as mini-tutorials to show you a number of things I found very useful as a designer. Hopefully, they’ll give you a quick start.
This is the first part of the SketchFlow tutorial includes topics on:
You can also download the video here.
This video was awesome. I was able to follow every step of this video with Blend3 RC trial release. I did not work with Blend much at all. Thank you very much for very informative video.
Qixing, nice tutorial thanks.
One thing that would be nice is a FULL SCREEN button so I can see the tutorial more easily...?
Thanks,
Richard
Hi Qixing,
Ignore my last post - double-click is the answer to get full screen.
Tx
Thanks for a great overview of SketchFlow - I found it a very useful jump-off point for my first project. Thanks :-)
Hi Qixing!
Very instructive...
You should consider using a tool like keyboard jedi when you perform the tutorials. This would show viewers what control keys you are using...
Keep up the good work!
(Finally there's content coming from Canada ;-) )
I could not see this video :-(
Do I need Silverlight 2 ? (I have Silverlight 3)
Can you please republish with a full screen option...its a waste of time when you can't see what's going on.
Hi Sean,
You can double-click the video to see it in full screen. I'll make sure to use a template that's has more visible full screen option for future videos.
Qixing
Hi Traurig,
The video should be compatible with all the Silverlight versions. Have you tried use IE to view it?
I have the same problem. With SL 3 Developer edition, it doesn't show up at all, with SL 3 runtime it generates an error when clicking on the start button.
Tried IE 8 in addition to firefox (SL almost never works on FF in any case).
Hi David,
Can you email me at qixing.zheng@microsoft.com and give me more details on the error you got so that I can troubleshoot.
Thanks, Qixing
Why this video doesn't work with firefox??
Hi all,
This tutorial should be working in both IE and Firefox. Please let me know if you are still having problems.
I have a button that navigates to another page in sketchflow. However, I would like to simulate a mouseover event on the button in which a text block would appear (from 0% opacity to 100%).
However, I could not find any event handler for Mouseover in Sketchflow for a Silverlight project.
Please help?
beautiful tutorial. One of the best I ever saw.
Thank you
AKa