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Slides from my presentation at today's TechJobsLA Job Fair and Mobilek.it event at Cross Campus in Santa Monica, CA.
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Simulating Mobile Apps
Scott McDowell
Started 1st company
’94 ’95
Designed 1st site
Designed 1st MobileWAP site
’03
Started UX Agency
’05
Started Mobile Design / Dev Shop
’08
Sold UX Agency
’12
Moved to Sunny LA
User Experience Designer, Entrepreneur, Advisortwitter: @_gotham
Today’s Agenda
10
Why Simulate?
Mobile SimulationTools
Simulation Workshop
Wrap UpQ&A
10 15 40 55
Why Simulate?
“The benefit of it was immediately apparent when all the stakeholders could touch and play with what seemed to be the real app.”
-Pek Pongpaet, Founder of Pinstagram
Explore ideas Identify the navigation and overall contentExperiment with the look and feel, and visual aestheticsPerform user testing to improve usability and user experienceInvestigate possible pitfalls well in advance of development (Fail Fast)
Techniques
Method/Tool TimeFidelit
yShare Test Touch
Paper Prototype Fast LowMediu
mLimite
dNo
Static Wireframes (Visio, Omni,
etc.)
Medium
Low-High
LowLimite
dNo
Source Code Prototype
SlowLow-High
Medium
Yes Yes
Simulating / Rapid Prototype
FastLow-High
High Yes Yes
Paper Prototypes
Wireframes
Coded Prototypes
Simulation / Prototyping ToolsAntetype Axure RP Balsamiq Blueprint codiqa
Divshot Easel.io FieldTest Fireworks Flash
FluidUI Foundation Handcraft Illustrator iMockups
InDesign InVision iRise Jetstrap Justinmind
Keynotopia mockingbird MockingBot Moqups Notism
pidoco proto.io ProtoShare Prototypes Realizer
refine.io SketchFlow Solidify UXPin Wirefy
Simulation / Prototyping ToolsAntetype Axure RP Balsamiq Blueprint codiqa
Divshot Easel.io FieldTest Fireworks Flash
FluidUI Foundation Handcraft Illustrator iMockups
InDesign InVision iRise Jetstrap Justinmind
Keynotopia mockingbird MockingBot Moqups Notism
pidoco proto.io ProtoShare Prototypes Realizer
refine.io SketchFlow Solidify UXPin Wirefy
Let’s Simulate Something
Ideas, Comments, Drinks?
Wrap Up
www.scottmcdowell.me gotham@me.com
@_gotham
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