Back to Basics — Wireframing & Planning
Planning your projects at the very beginning can be a fun yet daunting task. Showing clients early concepts, prototypes, wireframes and ideas at early stages can help you land the contract, or perhaps see concerns or new features for your own project that wasn't apparent before. Michael McArthur and Paul Crimi, both of whom are Product Designers at BNotions, are going to walk us through their processes of how they begin a project, what resources they use, and what goes on in their minds as they get everything off the ground.
Slideshare link: http://www.slideshare.net/paulcrimi/h...
HTML Toronto Links:
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App Map, Flow Chart & Wireframe Resources:
Omnigraffle http://www.omnigroup.com/omnigraffle/
Omnigraffle Stencils https://www.graffletopia.com/
Sketch http://www.bohemiancoding.com/sketch/
Adobe Illustrator http://www.adobe.com/ca/products/illu...
Adobe Fireworks http://www.adobe.com/ca/products/fire...
Balsamiq http://balsamiq.com/
Prototyping Resources:
InVision http://www.invisionapp.com/
Axure http://www.axure.com/
Origami http://facebook.github.io/origami/
UXPin http://uxpin.com/
Keynote http://www.apple.com/ca/mac/keynote/
Using Keynote To Prototype http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1155
Marvel https://marvelapp.com/
Proto.io http://proto.io/
Recommended Books:
Don't Make Me Think
The Lean Startup
Envisioning Information
The Essentials of Interaction Design
Sketching User Experiences
Designing Gestural Interfaces
Designing Social Interactions
The Design of Everyday Things
The Laws of Simplicity
Design Patterns
Designing For Interaction
Mobile First
Lean UX
Recommended Sites:
http://www.lukew.com
http://ixda.org/
http://boxesandarrows.com/
http://ui-patterns.com/
http://pttrns.com/
http://www.uiparade.com/
http://capptivate.co/
http://thehipperelement.com/
http://uxarchive.com/
http://uxporn.uxpin.com/
http://uxmag.com/
http://www.mobile-patterns.com/
http://inspired-ui.com/
http://tympanus.net/codrops/