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Mobile app prototyping
Petr Dvorak, iOS Development Lead
Petr Dvorak, iOS Development Lead
Outline
• Motivation for an app prototyping
• Tools and techniques for prototyping
• Design and design testing
Motivation
How to have an app without making an app
Why prototyping?
• Discover issues before the product is done
• The resulting product is better
• Create design more efficiently
• Have more insightful team
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Lessons Learned
• Invest more time in initial product design
• Never stop improving your product
• Communicate and iterate with client
• Let professionals review the design
Tools
Paper, Pencil & Stencils
Balsamiq Mockups
Join.me
• Easy screen sharing
• Enables efficient collaboration
• Concept explaining
• Order tracking
• Sign-in and sign-out needed
• Contact your sales person
Business case
What we aim for...
Balsamiq Mockups
The first design is prototype too
Photoshop / Fireworks
Photoshop / Fireworks
LiveView
• Screen-cast from desktop to iPhone/iPad
• Quick design verification by designer
• Design presentations
Design implementation
“No matter how good your design is
programmers will screw it up...”
-- Dvorak’s first law of physics, 2011
Use tools
• Detect misaligned or scaled images
• Detect incorrect image blending
• Measure the font and gap sizes
Use people too...
• Ask designer for review
• Verify design with customer
How is app design born?
•Someone does it for you
•You need to do it
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Introvert
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Zeus
AppoloDemeter
Hera
Aphrodite
NeedScopeTM
Does your product cause emotions?
Thank you. Q&A?
Tuesday, October 11, 2011