Introducing SketchFlow for Expression Blend 3 Preview
Apr 27, 2009 Expression Blend
With the delivery of Expression Blend 3 Preview, Microsoft mentioned SketchFlow, described by Bruce Kyle, an architect evangelist for Microsoft in the Developer & Platform Evangelism team, as “a rapid prototyping capability that makes it easy to communicate design intent to stakeholders.” SketchFlow is a tool set up to add on to Expression Blend 3 and to streamline the early stages or project design by allowing developers to literally sketch out their ideas. S. Somasegar, senior vice president, Developer Division, emphasized that SketchFlow was focused on the concept behind a certain project rather than on its visual identity and that, as such, the tool offered “sketch-styled” controls.
However, even if only sketches, the prototypes do not suffer from the perspective of functionality, and all ideas can be seamlessly “upgraded” to high-fidelity controls when devs choose to do so. Read the rest of this entry »
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