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Apr

Microsoft Gets All Design-y

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Design, Silverlight

One of my biggest frustrations with Microsoft Expression Blend has been that it has so much potential as a great tool, but still relies too much on XAML to create some of the more cool interactions which is bad news for the designers out there. Most the forums and books I’ve seen can’t seem to explain things without showing you XAML. There are a few folks out there that are really trying to show you how to use Blend including Victor Gaudioso and Katrien De Graeve.

Now all herald the arrival of the Microsoft Design Toolbox, http://www.microsoft.com/design/toolbox/. Ta da! You can create your own avatar (they need a few more choices). You can take “classes” and receive badges and see how others are doing under their “people” section. All in all it is well designed and actually is showing me something besides a lot of code, so thank you Microsoft for helping out the designers.

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5

Oct

Learning Sketchflow

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Here are some links that might come in handy for anyone attempting to learn SketchFlow.

Overviews:

Christian Schormann’s MIX09 Introduction to Sketchflow: http://videos.visitmix.com/MIX09/C01F
3 Minute Videos on Different Components of Sketchflow: http://blogs.msdn.com/katriend/archive/2009/07/19/3-on-blend-3-7-sketchflow-composition-screens-and-navigation.aspx
Dynamic Prototyping Preview (this is a preview of a book coming out in late 2009): http://www.designthinkingdigest.com/
SketchFlow in Silverlight 3.0 using Microsoft Expression Blend 3:http://pkrd.blogspot.com/2009/07/sketchflow-in-silverlight-30-using.html
Guide to SketchFlow in Expression Blend 3 RC http://codeblitz.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/guide-to-sketchflow-in-expression-blend-3-rc/

States:

SketchFlow: Making Movable Draggable Windows: http://openlightgroup.net/Blog/tabid/58/EntryId/29/SketchFlow-Making-Movable-Draggable-Windows.aspx
Typing animation effect in SketchFlow: http://nickjosevski.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/typing-animation-effect-in-sketchflow/
Keep SketchFlow Animation States Simple: http://nickjosevski.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/keep-sketchflow-animation-states-simple/
Working with States in SketchFlow with Expression Blend (video):http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/video/en/us/details/26250161-b6e1-46d3-a8f1-293438731337
Christian Schormann’s blog: http://electricbeach.org/

Behaviors:

Express Blend Samples: http://expressionblend.codeplex.com/
Using Sketchflow and Behaviors: http://www.silverlightbuzz.com/2009/07/14/using-sketchflow-and-behaviors-for-quick-easy-demos/
Creating Interactivity with Microsoft Expression Blend (behaviors and triggers) (video): http://videos.visitmix.com/MIX09/C27M
Blend 3: Rich Interactivity with No Code (video): http://blogs.msdn.com/canux/archive/2009/07/01/mini-tutorial-blend-3-rich-interactivity-with-no-code.aspx

Data Binding:

Visual Data Binding (video): http://blogs.msdn.com/canux/archive/2009/06/29/mini-tutorial-blend-3-visual-data-binding.aspx

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