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Tips and Tricks for Mobile Prototyping

• plenty of pictures

• tools

• guidelines, advices

• Answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything

• why do you need prototyping

• guide how to make ideal app

• and gain Billions on it

You would see You wouldn’t see

Specialities

• various platforms

• thin clients

• hardware limitations

• OS differences

Dynamic vs Static

Tools

Tools

• Paper

• Axure

• Balsamiq

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Guidelines

Advantages• system features

• guidelines cover 90% of business logic

• quick block prototyping

• relief for the developer

• decreasing development time

• -> UI Architect?

Guidelines

Guidelines

Navigation

Hierarchical

Flat

Up vs Back

Controls

Action Bar

• navigation menu

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• system menu

• back button ;)

Do Not

Tabs and Spinners

• pages of various navigation level

• Spinner for navigation

• use for polytypic content

Do Not

Navigation Drawer

• group

• multilevel

• notifications

• customize

Do

Keep your axe sharp!

Evgeny Kaziak

E-mail: ek@stone-labs.com Phone: +375 (29) 627 29 88 www.stone-labs.com