Their product, Balsamiq Mockups, is a rapid wireframing tool that makes wireframing easy.
Before Mockups people used pen and paper, whiteboards, Visio, generic drawing tools or specialized wireframing tools.
Wallach, on the other hand, focused on coding, designing, and putting together mockups while in transit.
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And there are tools like Balsamiq that can help create reasonable mockups that can convey your idea without writing code.
Are Photoshop mockups a typical end product for web designers?
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We won't lie, things got a tad disappointing when we realized they were non-functioning mockups, but if the company can pull off these frame-less designs we'll be quite impressed.
From then onwards, the designers join in and work with the carriers to boil down to a few phone ideas, the best of which are then presented to focus groups in the form of refined mockups.
ENGADGET: HTC talks smartphone design: from inception to final product
In these sessions, HTC doesn't just listen to what the participants want more or less of, but it mainly observes what people do with the mockups in their hands, as well as studying their emotional feedback.
ENGADGET: HTC talks smartphone design: from inception to final product
Sadly, we weren't allowed to take photos of the One X mockups that were shown to us, but do read on to learn the general process of how an HTC phone goes from inception to the final product.
ENGADGET: HTC talks smartphone design: from inception to final product
The mockups of the sorts of smart phones and Web-friendly gadgets Intel executives show off to reporters may look like crude iPhone knockoffs, but Intel's manufacturing means it will soon be difficult to copy the capabilities of Intel's new line of mobile processors.
What gives these pictures a higher likelihood of authenticity than previous leaks and mockups is that, as a repair service provider, iLab has the connections to the full range of parts manufactures in the supply chain, and the motivation to be prepared for dealing with the inner working of the next model.
These haven't been confirmed as pics of actual working models rather than mockups (they do seem to have a touch of the Photoshop to them), but some photos of Sony Ericsson's unreleased P910 smartphone have turned up that seem to jibe with those illustrations that leaked out a couple of months ago.
At the Frequencies media summit in Seattle over the last two days, HTC walked us through the fine details on how its smartphones are developed, going from the boring rectangular ABS block to the more refined plastic mockups that are presented to carriers and focus groups -- the findings of which then shape the final product.
ENGADGET: HTC talks smartphone design: from inception to final product
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