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Designer and Developer Collaboration with Visual Studio 2012 and Expression Blend Sandy Fougerousse UX Design Consultant [email protected] | http://blog.aridae.com

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Page 1: Designer and Developer Collaboration with Visual Studio 2012 and Expression Blend

Designer and Developer Collaboration with Visual Studio 2012 and Expression BlendSandy FougerousseUX Design Consultant

[email protected] |  http://blog.aridae.com

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“Old” Development Cycle

Designer deliverables: 

• static jpg versions of screens 

• any image assets

• Font information, etc

Design Development

Developer deliverables: 

• Functional UI code

• …the rest of the project

Project Start

Project End

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Collaboration Cycle

• Designer delivers final UI assets (XAML, HTML5, etc)

• Developer only supports the UI, does not fully develop it

Design

Development

Project Start

Project End

Design

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Why?

• Put the design stakeholder back in charge of the design

• Give the designer a better grasp on the possibilities

• Relieve some burden from the developers

This kind of true collaboration results in more cutting edge experiences

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How do we get there?• We need to encourage our designing friends to learn a few things about the development cycle

– Source Control (preferably TFS)

– Development cycle concepts like SBTs and Bugs

– Using Blend to make code assets

• We need to start using Blend.

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The Twitter App

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The Twitter App

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The Twitter App• asset names)

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Demo: Blend Intro & XAML/WPF      Skinning

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Cool new things in Blend 5?

• HTML5/.js support

• .js runs at design time

• Interactive Mode

• New css3 concepts supported (grid, flexbox, etc)

• Toggle different Win8 display variations/resolutions

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Demo: Blend .js Skinning

.js source:  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/davrous/archive/2012/08/21/windows‐8‐html5‐metro‐style‐app‐how‐to‐create‐a‐small‐rss‐reader‐in‐30min‐part‐1‐2.aspx

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Sandy FougerousseUX Design Consultant

[email protected] |  http://blog.aridae.comQuestions