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for: ‘July, 2010’

Lean Interactive Requirements – The End of Specification Documents

Posted Jul 28 2010 by Amir in Design, Prototyping, Stories

One of my most dreaded tasks as a program manager has been writing product specifications. It seemed unintuitive that, after brainstorming and discovering the details of the user interface and interaction, the best way to describe it all would be screenshots and endless pages of pre-conditions, action, post-condition, edge cases, etc…

I wasn’t surprised that developers didn’t like reading them. Spec review meetings used to feel like one of the scenes from office space – and I didn’t even have my red stapler.

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How to create an iPhone app prototype in 13 minutes using Apple Keynote [Video Tutorial]

Posted Jul 13 2010 by Amir in Iphone, Prototyping, iPad

After posting the previous tutorial on prototyping an iPad app in 30 minutes , I was asked by several peeps to put together a video tutorial on how I’d create an iPhone app prototype using the same technique:

  • No design tools
  • Zero lines of code
  • Prototype can be tested on the iPhone
  • All created under 30 minutes

The video below shows how to use Apple Keynote and Keynotopia interface libraries to create a prototype for an iPhone apartment hunting application in 13 minutes.

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Cheap and fast interactive web prototypes with Apple Keynote

Posted Jul 6 2010 by Amir in Design, blog

Apple Keynote has become my favorite rapid prototyping tool for putting together iPad and web interfaces, and testing them with real users. It quickly replaced all my previous prototyping tools, and I am constantly discovering new tricks and hacks to prototype more productively.

First, let me thank you for all the feedback that you provided about the iPad keynote prototyping. I hope that the hundreds of developers who downloaded the theme template are finding it useful.

As promised in the last post, here are some additional assets (all created in Keynote) that I’ve been using to rapidly prototype web applications and demo them within my presentations.

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I am a entrepreneur, startup advisor, and user experience designer. Over the past three years, I've designed and helped launch more than a dozen startups, including DocVerse (Acquired by Google), Delve Networks (Acquired by LimeLight networks), TalentSpring (acquired by TalentTech), SideReel (acquired by Rovi), UStream, blist, and several others.
My latest product, Keynotopia, was launched in 3 hours, with a $47.50 budget, and had its first paying customer in the first 10 minutes.
Previously featured on Inc magazine, Entrepreneur magazine, Smashing Magazine, Swiss Miss, and the unofficial apple weblog.


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