Tools for planning and designing iphone apps
The popularity of iphone and ipad apps has gone through the roof since their launch in 2007. Anyone who now carries their iphone around with them knows that ever more clients are pushing for more and more apps to push their services and products. That’s why if you are a designer tools like Realizer, for example, are essential. Realizer allows you to quickly construct a simple app prototype from a series of images, letting you try out your app idea on your ipad or iphone.
Other tools include Yahoo! Pattern Library which lets you study how other UX designers have gone about tackling similar interface issues in their work.
If you are someone who prefers working with a pen and paper then you might like Oliver Waters’ gridded template for iphone apps which you can print off on your printer and then scribble ideas and designs on.
For designers who like a more orderly approach, it is possible to use OmniGraffle to do all your wire framing and for which you can download iphone templates and ipad templates from the Graffletopia site.
Lastly, once you are finally ready to put together some of your polished designs Teenhan and Lax have made an incredibly stunning ipad and iphone GUI PSD in order to save you time. They are to be found in a footer at realizerapp.com
Alex is a financial journalist and occasional tech writer. He loves writing about SEO, apps and design but spends most of his days writing about mortgages, credit cards and payday loans .
