[IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] IxDA Waterloo: From Concept to Production: Prototyping with Expression Blend 3
SEE SKETCHFLOW IN ACTION Thursday June 25, 2009, 5:00 pm Accelerator Centre in Waterloo, Ontario http://uxgroup.wordpress.com So, you¹ve got a great design idea for your project. But how do you quickly turn conceptual design ideas into rich prototypes that are ready for production? Additionally, how do you share your design ideas with others effectively at each stage of the design process? Come hear Qixing Zheng from Microsoft introduce a new component in Expression Blend 3, called SketchFlow. It¹s a fun, flexible, and powerful way to sketch and prototype rich and dynamic interactivity in your applications. Learn how SketchFlow allows you to quickly iterate on your designs and share them with your colleagues for feedback. Previous knowledge in Expression Blend is not necessary. ** About Qixing Zheng ** Qixing joined Microsoft Canada as its first User Experience Advisor. In this role, she talks to schools, design communities and companies about Microsoft¹s investment in UX, and finds design heroes and design stories from the community. More importantly, she works with many outstanding IT professionals to consider how user experience can impact the technology we deliver today. She graduated from UBC at the end of 2005 with a Masters degree specializing in Human-Computer Interaction. ** RSVPs required ** This event is being hosted by the Infusion Angels Innovation Centre. If you plan to attend, please visit their website and submit your registration at: http://ic.infusionangels.com It¹s free. Thanks, Infusion Angels! Hope to see you there, Robert Barlow-Busch IxDA Waterloo coordinator Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] IxDA Waterloo: From Concept to Production: Prototyping with Expression Blend 3
plus, at night, the whole city smells like fresh brewed Molson Beer. On Jun 23, 2009, at 11:21 AM, Robert Barlow-Busch wrote: SEE SKETCHFLOW IN ACTION Thursday June 25, 2009, 5:00 pm Accelerator Centre in Waterloo, Ontario http://uxgroup.wordpress.com So, you¹ve got a great design idea for your project. But how do you quickly turn conceptual design ideas into rich prototypes that are ready for production? Additionally, how do you share your design ideas with others effectively at each stage of the design process? Come hear Qixing Zheng from Microsoft introduce a new component in Expression Blend 3, called SketchFlow. It¹s a fun, flexible, and powerful way to sketch and prototype rich and dynamic interactivity in your applications. Learn how SketchFlow allows you to quickly iterate on your designs and share them with your colleagues for feedback. Previous knowledge in Expression Blend is not necessary. ** About Qixing Zheng ** Qixing joined Microsoft Canada as its first User Experience Advisor. In this role, she talks to schools, design communities and companies about Microsoft¹s investment in UX, and finds design heroes and design stories from the community. More importantly, she works with many outstanding IT professionals to consider how user experience can impact the technology we deliver today. She graduated from UBC at the end of 2005 with a Masters degree specializing in Human-Computer Interaction. ** RSVPs required ** This event is being hosted by the Infusion Angels Innovation Centre. If you plan to attend, please visit their website and submit your registration at: http://ic.infusionangels.com It¹s free. Thanks, Infusion Angels! Hope to see you there, Robert Barlow-Busch IxDA Waterloo coordinator Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] IxDA Waterloo: From Concept to Production: Prototyping with Expression Blend 3
I saw a demo of SketchFlow last night in Irvine, CA. I'm curious what the full extent of it's documentation generation capabilities are. It apparently exports annotated designs/diagrams to a Word Document, but.. how much control of content and layout is afforded to the author remains to be seen. That said, it does appear to be way more useful than Visio (for those in Microsoft only situations). Would love to hear what Dan and Nathan's objective opinions are of it (Eight Shapes?). In fact, if anyone is evaluating, I'd love to hear thoughts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=43118 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] [EVENT] IxDA Waterloo: From Concept to Production: Prototyping with Expression Blend 3
I'm really excited and I think this is the greatest thing since slice bread for user experience/ix design. I'm currently fighting with Flash Catalyst to sufficiently bring life to some Fireworks sketches, so that the interaction concept is made real. It doesn't work all that well, and there is a lot of tweaking but it is totally worth it. So much of interaction design happens through time. While designers may be good at envisioning how designs unfold and behave in time when looking at static screen mockups, I know the people we collaborate with are definitely not so adept.. . I for one, hope that it enables me to better the story of what we're trying to build...I don't even mind if it doesn't nicely integrate into development platforms. Navid On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Scot Angus s...@nicetempo.com wrote: Would love to hear what Dan and Nathan's objective opinions are of it (Eight Shapes?). In fact, if anyone is evaluating, I'd love to hear thoughts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=43118 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
