A sketchbook for iPhone apps

We recently released the sketch template we use to design our iPhone apps.

The template is based on a grid which is equal to 10px height, and has tick mark indicators of status bar, nav bar, tab bar and tool bar and keyboard.

You can download the free template at http://bit.ly/13y61H

Hope you find it useful!

I found Balsamiq mockups at wwdc

http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups

This url might work better.
http://www.onespring.net/iphonesimdk.php

As someone noted the stencil kit is not compatible, even though the article implies it is.

And the onespring URL Chuck mentioned points to a portal page and the base strikepage for the site is not related to the topic, so maybe the URL is incorrect?

If you use the iRise Software visualzation tool for defining applications, there is a free "plug in" from a company called OneSpring. http://www.oneSpring.com/iphone

It maybe a few bucks more, but I've already used it for some meetings with clients and it's worth it. Besides what's $4 more in the grand scheme of things? I pay more for a freakin coffee at Starbucks. I've been looking for something like this for a long time, it rocks.

Though the article suggests that the (very cool) stencil and this sketchbook can be used together, that's not correct. The stencil is at 150% iPhone size, while this notebook is at 100%. Personally, I think 150% is better, easier to draw things.

For those who suggest that Photoshopped (or other electronic) protos are better, while they're better for some things, the beauty of hand-drawn UI protos is that they _feel_ impermanent, which has a powerful psychological effect that encourages you to experiment with alternatives. A dozen years of prototyping UIs has made it super-clear that there's a lot of power in hand-drawn protos.

You can't beat the presentation.

Come into an Fortune 500 company meeting to develop their Iphone app with a professional sketchbook and the guard will be dropped. Bring in some printed pieces of paper and you'll look bush league. I ordered one....for $12.99 ;-)

Well, why not use electronic version to create iPhone UI mockups ? Paper is not very flexible... I made a Keynote 09 file with all the iPhone UI elements categorized to help build interface prototypes... see:

buildingiphoneapps.blogspot.com

http://buildingiphoneapps.blogspot.com/2009/08/more-user-interfaces-prototyping-tools.html

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