So I making all the UI improvements I’ve been blogging about (see my previous post) and I clearly got carried away:
I’ve received so much insightful feedback from people who love MockApp 0.7 and have started to use it on a daily basis for their UX prototypes that I felt compelled to reward them by incorporating as many of their ideas as possible into version… 1.0!
A picture is worth 1000 words so without further rambling on my part, here’s what MockApp 1.0 is going to look like. This is a screenshot of one of the pages included in the library file.
As you can see, I’ve started incorporating the official name of the UI elements as well as short descriptions about how Apple recommends you use the various UI elements in your iPhone apps. It may not seem like much but it should be quite handy for people who haven’t fully memorized Apple’s 130-page iPhone Human Interface Guidelines…
The template file is also undergoing quite a bit of changes to allow for a sleeker in-context (with iPhone) view of the app and also allow for horizontal screen prototyping. Here’s an screenshot of what the MockApp template home screen will look like:
Obviously, that’s waaaay more changes than I was planning on releasing in the next version. So it’s taking me a bit longer. But I’m hopeful I’ll be able to release MockApp 1.0 for both Keynote and Powerpoint sometime next week.
My objective is to make MockApp so easy to use that anyone who wakes up in the middle of the night with an app idea can quickly and easily mock it up. Not just designers. Not just developers. Anyone.
For those of you who have a blog or can twist the arm of a blogger, please spread the news… iPhone prototyping for the rest of us is coming!
Please consider updating the fonts that you use in the Keynote file. The iPhone uses Helvetica Neue, not Arial. Thanks!
Thanks! This will be part of the improvements made in v1.0 due later this week.