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Developer:
Endloop System Inc.
Age rating: 4+
Compatibility: Compatible with iPad.
Requires iOS 3.2 or later
iMockups for iPadCurrent Version: 1.3.1
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☆☆☆☆☆ Winner of Applied Arts - Best Mobile App 2010 Award
☆☆☆☆☆ App Star Runner up - Best Utility App 2010 Award
iMockups for iPad is the PREMIERE mobile wireframing and mockup app for your web, iPhone and iPad projects.
"If you weren’t planning to buy an iPad, this app alone could very well change your mind." - Chris Pirillo, Tech Expert for CNN.com
"iMockups could actually play an integral role in how you tackle new projects" - Computer Arts Magazine
"iMockups is a must have tool for web designers, iPhone developers and really anyone looking to design a UI starting with a good wireframe mock up." - iPadInCanada.ca
"We think designers are going to adore this. Talk about a great idea to take advantage of all that screen." - Brian X. Chen, Wired Magazine
8/10 - Featured on AppCraver.com's "must-have apps for the iPad" list
"iMockups looks like a good tool for those of you who are tired of carrying around that sketchbook, pencil, and eraser for capturing your app ideas." - Steven Sande, TUAW.com
****Featured by Apple, Wired, Mashable.com, MacRumors, TUAW.com, and more*****
Created exclusively for the iPad, iMockups combines a beautiful interface with intuitive functionality, taking full advantage of the breakthrough touchscreen device.
iMockups is simple to use but make no mistake, it's a serious app for creative professionals.
DESIGN ANY APP YOU WANT
- A comprehensive and growing list of pre-built dynamic controls (for Web, iPhone and iPad) help turn your ideas into full fledged designs at the office or on the go.
KEEP FOCUSED
- Low fidelity mockups encourages feedback, communicates ideas clearly and helps your team and clients focus on the functionality.
SAVE TIME
- Create mockups faster than ever. With snap-to-gridlines and a customizable canvas, our intuitive multi-touch interface is a joy to use.
SHARE AND COLLABORATE
- Email editable projects to your colleague's or client's iPads for easy collaboration. For those without iPads, just export to PNG or Balsamiq BMML format.
STAY ORGANIZED
- iMockups supports multiple projects and each project can have multiple pages. Manage them easily from our Project view.
DEDICATED SUPPORT
- We're proud of iMockups and we want to make sure our customers are happy. We have dedicated support staff to insure this.
OTHER FEATURES
- Get creative with our ever expanding variety of smart customizable UI controls like navbars, tab panels, pickers, and markup elements
- The gorgeous interface not only makes it a joy to look and touch, it’s designed to let you work the way you want. Panels easily slide out of the way when you don’t need them.
- Collaborate and discuss your designs quickly and easily with full-screen Presentation mode.
- Full content creation and editing controls like Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy, Paste and Zoom.
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**IMPORTANT TIPS: PLEASE READ!**
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- Visit our iMockups YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/imockups for video previews and tutorials!
- Tap TOOLS > HELP for an overview of controls.
- you must use TWO FINGERS to PAN the canvas since a single finger will select elements
- iMockups is meant for LOW FIDELITY mockups best used for rapid wireframing, brainstorming and ideation.
- Low fidelity mockups helps you, your team and your clients focus on FUNCTIONALITY and FLOW, and not get caught up over what shade of cornflower blue your icon should be.
- VISIT OUR BLOG http://blog.endloop.ca and follow @EndloopStudios and @iMockups on Twitter for the latest news!
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We're committed to supporting iMockups. We've released over 10 updates since launch adding tons of new features!
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iMockups for iPad Review
App is practically indispensable for anyone who works with wireframes
If you’re a software developer who creates wireframes, then iMockups for iPad from Endloop Systems is well worth a look. This app lets you quickly and easily create professional looking wireframes for Web projects and iOS apps. If you’re already familiar with Balsamiq Mockups, then you already know how to use iMockups because the interface is similar and the files are somewhat compatible. (More on that later.)
You begin a wireframe in iMockups by creating a blank project. Down the left side of the screen is a slide-out drawer that lets you add, delete and duplicate pages within your project. Down right side of the screen, another slide-out drawer contains pre-built website and iOS elements that you can drag onto your pages.
Frame-Up: iMockups lets you whip wireframes for everything from apps to Websites from the comfort of your iPad.
After dragging an element onto the project, tapping on it brings up the standard iOS action bar where you can perform various actions like copy, clone (copy/paste in a single action) and delete. You can also lock an item and group multiple selected items. The most powerful choice, though, is the “info” option, which lets you modify various properties of the selected item. The parameters vary with the type of item you’ve selected. For example, a data grid’s info window lets you specify the number and content of the cells, control the layer position, and so forth.
An arrow icon on the toolbar puts you into presentation mode. If you can connect your iPad to a larger screen, then this makes a good tool to present ideas to your team or to a client. You can either swipe from page-to-page or you can place page-links onto your elements to simulate real navigation links within your app.
A Tools button on the toolbar provides links to Help and Tutorials as well as options to export the current page or the entire project. When you export your project, you can convert it to either .jpg, .pdf, or .bmml (Balsamiq Mockups) format or simply save it as an iMockups file. Exporting a single page allows you to choose .png format or to save the image to your iPad’s photo library. Oddly enough, the only way to share your work is via email. Dropbox support in an app like this should be a given, so hopefully the developer has this option on the drawing board (no pun intended).
Exporting a project in Balsamiq Mockups format is useful if you or a colleague also use that app, but don’t expect the process to be perfect. Text elements sometimes come over incomplete and a few font-size adjustments are sometimes necessary. Also, as of this writing, it isn’t possible to import Balsamiq files into iMockups. (I’m guessing this is because Balsamiq Mockups provides more UI elements than iMockups.) So, iMockups is most useful if you either want to confine the entire project to the iPad or start a project on the iPad (while in a meeting, for example) and then finish it in Balsamiq on your desktop. Since the iPad is a really nice presentation tool, the inability to move a Balsamiq file to iMockups is an unfortunate limitation. (Perhaps the perfect solution would be a Mac-native version of iMockups. And yes—that’s a request.)
Nonetheless, iMockups works very well to create, and present, basic wireframe models. It’s great that iMockups files can be opened in Balsamiq Mockups, but a two-way file interchange via Dropbox would make the app much more useful. Despite these few drawbacks, I think that iMockups is almost indispensable for the iPad owner who produces wireframes for iOS apps, Web apps, or website projects.
[Brian Beam is a software designer and partner with web development firm BOLD Internet Solutions, living somewhere near Kansas City.]
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DropBox Integration
While there isn't yet DropBox integration inside of iMockups, you can store iMockups work files in DropBox and open them on the iPad. The iMockups app will recognize the file type and open the files.
Indeed, indispensible!
Bought this app last week after reading an article on developing iOS apps. It was easy to use, and really helped me think through how my app will work. This will no doubt help when I hire my coder, so they know exactly what to do. I also contacted Endloop Systems with a question and they responded within 24 hours and were very helpful and friendly. Customer service is important to me and this company knows that's important to success. This is an indispensible tool for anyone developing an app or wanting to lay out a project in a quick and easy way.
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