Rapid Application Prototyping with SketchFlow

Viral Tarpara – Technical Evangelist - Microsoft

Utopian Workflow

Brief

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Concept• Sketch• Prototype

Delivery

Dev-Fat Agencies

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Concept•Sketch•Prototype

Delivery

How Agencies REALLY Work

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Concept Delivery

Concept

This Leads to...

#FAIL

Why Concept Phase is a Nightmare

BADFEEDBACK

COMPLEX IDEAS

BIGCHANGES

NO CUSTOMER

FOCUS

Customers who aren’t “design-centric” do

not give you actionable feedback. They

remain focused on the details like color and images, rather than “look ‘n feel” and design

Feedback

You end up wanting to do this…

So Why ?

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Rapidly Model the Look and Feel

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Enterprise-Ready Applications

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Multi-Version/User Feedback

Automatically Generate Documentation

Sketchflow Interface

Feedback Player in Browser

Full Interaction and Commenting

This Paper Sketch Actually Rotates

Try to Explain this on Paper!

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Sketchflow Tasks

• Import Adobe files into Full Functioning UIs• Application Navigation System with NO CODE• Add State to the application• Drag and Drop usable Sample Data

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“We Don’t Use Silverlight”

“We Don’t Use Silverlight”

• HTML/Flash Shops Fast Prototyping• Conceptualize in Silverlight/WPF• Finalize Changes before Development• Multi-user / Multi-version Feedback• Firefox, IE, Safari Support on PC/MAC/Linux*

Getting Started with Sketchflow

• Download Silverlight 3• Download Microsoft Expression Blend 3 trial• Checkout Sketchflow Starter Kit

– Videos– Guides– Assets

• Contact Me : viralta@microsoft.com• Blog: http://blogs.technet.net/tarpara• TwitterID: @TARPARA

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If after all this you remainunconvinced then...

“I find your lack of faith disturbing”