UI Prototyping/Mockup tools you should be using
Last week a colleague asked me to shed some light on tools that would be helpful in prototyping UX and creating mockups. And now I’ll take this an an opportunity to share what I said.
PEN, PAPER, AND CAMERA (VERY UNDER-RATED)
Cheap and sometimes the fastest way for simple UI.
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- Use graph-paper – makes it easy keep consistent sizing and alignment
- Whiteboards also work, provide an easy “undo” -and are useful if you need to do a full UX workflow
- The camera is critical here – you can avoid redrawing it
- Protip– use the graph paper with the light blue (any light color is fine) lines – if you want to get rid of the lines, it’s easy to do in a bitmap paint program later
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