using sketchflow

Using SketchFlow

By Isha & Emma – from Provoke

How it’s going to roll

1. About us & what we do

2. About the MOMO project

3. About the SketchFlow app

4. The MOMO Prototype

5. Problems and Challenges

6. Other Stuff & Questions

Provoke• DUX team

(Design + User Experience)

• UCD (User Centred Design)

• Microsoft Gold Partner (We use Microsoft Technologies like .net)

Collaborating and Prototypes

The MOMO Project

Talk to the PM’S (the users)

Talk to the Business

Talk to the

Developers

Create a rich interactive prototype

Create a storyboard of the current state

Create a

story board

of the desired

state

Storyboards to Prototypes

Gathering Requirements

The Sketchy Prototyping Tool

SketchFlow• Expression Blend 3 – SketchFlow: it’s Sketchy

• Prototyping tool

• Bill Buxton

• XAML with Drag & Drop functionality

• .net (wpf) & Silverlight

• Sample datasets

• Import layers and vectors from Photoshop & Illustrator

• Feedback functionality

The MOMO Prototype

A interactive sketch of how it should work

How does SketchFlow measure up?

Problems and Challenges• When not to use it: Public Co-creation/ Collaboration situations (Balsamiq is good for this)

• Learning Curve

• Feature overload with a complicated interface

• Labelling of the tools

• The file state of the applications is clunky and confusing

What would you like to know?