Artist: Karl Kim Location: Austin, TX Occupation: Visual designer. Making the world of software fun again, and making it look good. Hobbies: Typography, photography, motion graphics
定义版面 在这个阶段要定义全部的版面设计及功能特点设计。这时我们不需要很花哨的图片,而是用方框来代表。这些方框可以直接用“Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)”来控制, “Lookless control”一词就是从这里来的 -- 不要特定的图像,只要特定的功能。
进一步完善 有些理念要实现有些则要放弃。
Settling more into the concept and deciding on what should and shouldn’t be done. Some early ideas in terms of defining a visual language and a direction for the visual design to head into.
The semi-transparent overlay in the middle shows the first class support for alpha transparency in WPF. Everything that has color, or a fill, can also have an alpha mask that is seen throughout. This means you can also have opacity masks—or transparencies that have a gradient alpha.
进一步完善 有些理念要实现有些则要放弃。
Settling more into the concept and deciding on what should and shouldn’t be done. Some early ideas in terms of defining a visual language and a direction for the visual design to head into.
The semi-transparent overlay in the middle shows the first class support for alpha transparency in WPF. Everything that has color, or a fill, can also have an alpha mask that is seen throughout. This means you can also have opacity masks—or transparencies that have a gradient alpha.
Integration And Collaboration
As mentioned, the interaction design is elevated to a different role. The designer now has the ability to get directly into Expression Blend and do exploration incorporating their own ideas before they surface them to a team-level discussion. Essentially what you get is Photoshop on steroids. Same fidelity—but it’s real.
On a final note, it is important to realize that .png’s are not dead. Not in the least. Vectors are great, but WPF has also been built from the ground up to have blazing .png rendering speed. Almost so that I have never seen comparable results. That’s something to wrap your head around.
Final Image And, magic…You get beautiful stuff. The final stage is to get the developer in Visual Studio® to make it a reality. Whatever projects have been created in Expression Blend can be seamlessly opened in Visual Studio. Perfect.