Sketchflow for Windows Phone 7

This article briefly introduces the features of sketchflow for Windows Phone 7 in the latest version. Sketchflow for Windows Phone 7 in the wrong Oh deplex home, address is: http://wp7sketchflow.codeplex.com, the specific use of documents can refer to the http://wp7sketchflow.codeplex.com/documentation

With sketchflow, you can

A) design sketch for your ideas

B) Turn these ideas into working prototypes, and their precision can be based on your needs, from extremely rough to close to real products.

C) present these interactive user experiences in the sketchflow player for review and comment

Sketchflow is used to create fast and informal prototypes so that designers can easily explore various ideas. You can start running and explore the prototype from the first rough sketch. When you prepare for further development, you can use expression blend or Visual Studio to convert the prototype into a real application.

Idea sketch

When you start to create a new prototype for a Windows Phone 7 project, you will see the expression blend panel, control toolbox, and sketchflow map that you are very familiar. You can use existing controls or custom controls in Windows Phone 7.

Sketchflow also provides a set of "Sketch Style" controls to make your prototype look the same as the style of the sketch, which helps to focus on the concept of user experience, instead of being too distracted by the details of visual effects. The sketch style controls have complete functions and can be converted to high-quality controls at any time. The following shows the appearance of a sketch-style widget.

Ing stream and navigation

The sketchflow map provides a single-screen view, and the application flow panel allows you to create a ing stream for the application, or quickly modify the flowchart without re-engineering.

In the following applications, the blue solid arrow represents a station during the user experience process, and the green dotted arrow represents the content that can be shared or reused between various screens, for example, a set of website navigation buttons shared on multiple web pages.

Collect feedback

Sketchflow for Windows Phone 7 shows your prototype to others in a browser. In the browser, You can explore prototypes from the first moment, even if it contains only a few rough sketches. Allows you to browse your prototype and run an animation to show how your prototype will work, or switch to different States of the user interface, without any actual user interface elements. This significantly reduces the cost of evaluating ideas before many of the costs in the early stages have occurred.

However, displaying prototypes to others is only part of the review process, so sketchflow for Windows Phone 7 also provides tools to collect comments from reviewers. Comments can provide feedback in different forms: Text, comments in the feedback label below; or ink, the Red Arrow below. Then you can use the feedback panel in Silverlight to integrate these feedback into the prototype, which allows you to iterate your design using various suggestions from your team.

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