What’s new in SketchFlow

SketchFlow, a feature of Expression Studio Ultimate, enables you to model the navigation and composition of an application rapidly in a very visual manner. SketchFlow prototypes can be as simple as a series of sketches, but can evolve to be as real as you need them to be to communicate your design intent. All of the user interface (UI) modeling features of Expression Blend^®, including Photoshop importing, visual states, behaviors, and sample data, can also be used in prototyping projects.

Publish to SharePoint

Once you have created a SketchFlow project, you can publish your project to a Microsoft SharePoint document library. The SketchFlow project will be available to anyone who has permission to view content on the SharePoint site

Reviewers can share their feedback with other stakeholders by publishing their feedback to the SharePoint site.

Convert feedback to work items

For teams using Microsoft Team Foundation Server you can now convert reviewer feedback into a TFS work item so that you can take action on it and keep track of it.

SketchFlow animation picker

The PlaySketchFlowAnimationAction behavior is used to play a SketchFlow animation in response to an event. You can use a new picker in the Properties panel to easily pick a SketchFlow animation for the action to control.

SketchStyles

The default Style set for a new SketchFlow project is SketchStyles. You can switch to another Style set at any time.

Naming screens

When creating a new screen or component screen in the SketchFlow map, you can name the screen immediately after creating it.

Pausing and resuming a SketchFlow animation

In Expression Blend, each frame of a SketchFlow animation contains a new Pause button. When enabled, the SketchFlow animation pauses at that frame when playing back in the SketchFlow Player. In the SketchFlow Player, there is a play/pause button that is next to each SketchFlow animation and that can be used to play, pause, or resume that animation.