Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Mockapp: quick iPhone app prototyping

I stumbled on to Mockapp the other day. It is a series of graphics wrapped up in ppt slides, designed to enable you to easily and quickly create visual mockups of an iPhone app.

I used it yesterday to put together a mockup for a customer. It was awesome! I used to do this the hard way using cut and paste with screenshots and other graphics. This is so much better to have all the standard widgets already sliced up for you.

Here is a link to their website. http://mockapp.com/

Monday, October 12, 2009

The two App Stores

Marco Arment wrote this great article on the app store. http://www.marco.org/208454730 It is highly recommended reading. It does a great job of summarizing the need for market analysis. But mostly I like it because he so eloquently summarized my thoughts when I read Ged Maheux of the Iconfactory whining http://gedblog.com/2009/09/28/losing-ireligion/ about his latest app not doing well. Sometimes people just over think things when they put their app together.