Sunday, April 4, 2010

Fingertip Design and Prototypes - Collaboration Affordance!

One of the intriguing Apps that I downloaded this morning to my iPAD is iMockUP. It is a fingertip design tool to prototype a screen, webpage or performance application. It has a series of templates and objects that you can drag, stretch and move to layout what a new app or site might look like. Take a look:



We are intrigued by the interactive nature of the collaboration that could happen between learners, end-users, sponsors and designers of an application. And, think of what new models would surface as we gave this to a few learners and told them to design their vision of what e-Learning or knowledge assets might look like.

4 comments:

  1. The implications for the design process and collaboration are quite interesting, Elliott.

    I just downloaded the App and did a prototype of a learning screen for a specific manager on a specific job. I'll show it to them on Monday and see how they move things around.

    Perhaps someday, we will have a complier .. once we create a wireframe on a device like this, it auto compiles into a real app.

    Harry Lowe

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  2. I think this is quite interesting. Usability experts have mastered the idea of using wireframes a long time ago, but apps like this bring this visual language to the masses.

    Nice to see an app aimed at creating instead of just consuming media.

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  3. Do you guys recommend the app?

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  4. Jose CarrasquilloApril 6, 2010 5:03 PM

    This is fantastic! Some companies developed Apps that are more in line with enterprise mobile learning requirements. One such App is available for free at the Apple App store. The name is vMobiLearn. It will be interesting to see other Apps as part of the lab efforts.

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