Comments on: Prototyping with Blend 3 and Sketchflow http://bradsramblings.com/blog/2009/09/prototyping-with-blend-3-and-sketchflow/ User Experience, Interaction Design, Fatherhood Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:28:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Boxes and Arrows: Sketchflow Time at Mess with Silverlight http://bradsramblings.com/blog/2009/09/prototyping-with-blend-3-and-sketchflow/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Boxes and Arrows: Sketchflow Time at Mess with Silverlight Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:38:56 +0000 http://bradsramblings.com/blog/?p=270#comment-40 [...] that got the oohs and ahhs around the office. If you haven’t seen it yet, Brad gives a pretty good overview of it at Brad’s Ramblings. It’s packed with features for developing fully animated prototypes, and should keep the UX [...] [...] that got the oohs and ahhs around the office. If you haven’t seen it yet, Brad gives a pretty good overview of it at Brad’s Ramblings. It’s packed with features for developing fully animated prototypes, and should keep the UX [...]

]]> By: Brad Nunnally http://bradsramblings.com/blog/2009/09/prototyping-with-blend-3-and-sketchflow/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Brad Nunnally Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:34:16 +0000 http://bradsramblings.com/blog/?p=270#comment-39 I will work up another prototype with some interaction in it. Going to have to get my animation groove on ;)<br><br>With the Adobe import, in theory yes. I haven't tried it yet, but during the demo it was stated you could. Let me try it out and I will get back to ya.<br><br>The mapping is both documentation and functional. It hooks up all the relationships in the background to easily link the screens together. If you don't define the relationships in the map, then you can't provide any click-thru behavior. <br><br>Glad you enjoyed the write up. I will work up another prototype with some interaction in it. Going to have to get my animation groove on ;)

With the Adobe import, in theory yes. I haven't tried it yet, but during the demo it was stated you could. Let me try it out and I will get back to ya.

The mapping is both documentation and functional. It hooks up all the relationships in the background to easily link the screens together. If you don't define the relationships in the map, then you can't provide any click-thru behavior.

Glad you enjoyed the write up.

]]> By: Fred Beecher http://bradsramblings.com/blog/2009/09/prototyping-with-blend-3-and-sketchflow/comment-page-1/#comment-38 Fred Beecher Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:07:13 +0000 http://bradsramblings.com/blog/?p=270#comment-38 Great writeup, Brad! Thank you! But I am going to be an instigator and tell you things I want to know more about. : )<br><br>First, behaviors. Can you walk us through what it's like to create behaviors in SketchFlow, with screenshots if possible? How advanced can you get? Can you create conditions? Manipulate elements on the page?<br><br>What about the Sketch style and Adobe import? Can you import stuff from an AI file and say, "See this nicely designed droplist? I want it to replace this sketchy one here but retain all the behaviors."<br><br>Finally, mapping. Does making a map have any impact on the functionality of your prototype? Or is it just for documentation purposes?<br><br>I do have a comment though... this idea of binding tables to actual data, this is a big one. This is one of two features that iRise has that Axure doesn't, so seeing a tool with this feature that is presumably in Axure's price range is kind of a big deal.<br><br>Thanks again for writing this up! Great writeup, Brad! Thank you! But I am going to be an instigator and tell you things I want to know more about. : )

First, behaviors. Can you walk us through what it's like to create behaviors in SketchFlow, with screenshots if possible? How advanced can you get? Can you create conditions? Manipulate elements on the page?

What about the Sketch style and Adobe import? Can you import stuff from an AI file and say, “See this nicely designed droplist? I want it to replace this sketchy one here but retain all the behaviors.”

Finally, mapping. Does making a map have any impact on the functionality of your prototype? Or is it just for documentation purposes?

I do have a comment though… this idea of binding tables to actual data, this is a big one. This is one of two features that iRise has that Axure doesn't, so seeing a tool with this feature that is presumably in Axure's price range is kind of a big deal.

Thanks again for writing this up!

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