Dynamic Prototyping with SketchFlow in Expression Blend is a book coming out in late 2009 (Actually now Q1 2010) through Pearson and Que Publishing and is being written by Chris Bernard and Sara Summers. It will teach you everything you need to know to create rich and dynamic prototypes using SketchFlow in Expression Blend.
Here you can get updates about the progress we're making on the book and download a preview chapter and the associated projects that go along with it.
The preview chapter will teach you all the basics you need to know to begin using SketchFlow features in Expression Blend right away.
There are four files to download. We recommend you download all of them and place them in your Documents/Expression/Blend3/Projects directory.
Simple select the following links to being the download process.
Dynamic Prototyping Preview (8.5 Megabytes)
Prototype Start (8.5 Megabytes)
Prototype Finish (10.5 Megabytes)
Source Art (1.0 Megabytes)
Good start. Looking forward to your SketchFlow book release.
Do you have plans on including the following in book?
1. Show how to collect/save data to a list to allow processing at the end of a workflow? Meaning... let's say I have a snowboard website, I would like to collect the products (boards ,boots, etc.) I want to purchase. Then I can see the entire list when I'm ready to checkout or edit my cart. I notice when you leave a particular UI after added data to a list, the data is gone when I navigate back to the UI.
2. How to remove SketckFlow Player and deploy a WPF and Silverlight application. I noticed there is not a Publish tab in the Project section of application in Visual Studio. Would be nice to be able to ClickOnce to deploy when ready ( I'm talking deployment for production, not for getting feedback ). This may be planned on future version of SketchFlow.
Thanks in advance.
Posted by: shaggygi | 07/11/2009 at 01:50 PM
Great job, your book will be a big reference for Interactive Designers and UxDesigners. I've just finish reading chapter one and I am certain of that :) Congrats
Posted by: Eric Ambrosi | 07/16/2009 at 12:24 PM