First Look: iMockups for iPad
Developers often carry around notebooks, which they use to sketch out their brilliant ideas for the next million-dollar iPhone or iPad app. The folks over at Endloop, a Canadian iPad development company with a few projects under its figurative belt, have been "coding like madmen" recently for their latest product, iMockups for iPad.
The idea behind iMockups is to give devs a way to quickly create wireframes and layouts for iPad, iPhone, and web apps. Any project can have multiple sketchbook pages associated with it, and developers can quickly add elements from a pad at the side of the screen.
Details about the app are very sketchy (no pun intended), so there's no word on when the app will be released to the App Store, what the price will be, or if there is any way to export or print the mockups that are created. However, iMockups looks like a good tool for those of you who are tired of carrying around that sketchbook, pencil, and eraser for capturing your app ideas.
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Looks a lot like balsamiq
March 29 2010 at 3:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI love the big gray/white vertical gradient in the sidebar. But not nearly as much as the heavy drop shadows.
That's what happens when you have programmers or bad UI designers design an application.
I also find it remarkable how much the elements in this application resemble the Balsamiq ones. Yes, I know they're both mock-up applications, but these look to much alike to be a coincidence.
I would say this app should be targeted at UX designers/Info Architects more than devs.
March 29 2010 at 2:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyMy first thought was that this was made by Balsamiq (http://www.balsamiq.com/), but then I realized it is not. People are even questioning them on their own site about if this was taken from Balsamiq.
I'm not trying to troll, but if you haven't checked out Balsamiq Mockups for wireframing apps/iPhone apps, it is a life saver and free to use.
I'd been hoping someone would do a wireframe/mockup/prototyping app for the iPad! This is the sort of thing I'd like to work on while waiting... waiting for a pizza, waiting for the train, etc. I hope the file format will be something that's transferable to other apps -- hopefully XML-based.
March 29 2010 at 2:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyOkay, that is pretty impressive.
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