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Aug
30
2010

Windows Phone 7 ‘Bar napkin’ template PDFs

Posted under Blog Posts, Software Design

imageI’m a pencil and paper kind of guy.  I like scribbling and drawing arrows on dead trees.  I like doodling on napkins and drawing stick figures.  That’s just the way I roll.

As I was noodling around with a Window Phone 7 app idea, I realized that I needed a visual canvas on which to explore my genius. The Design Templates for Window 7 is an excellent start, and there are some other great resources available from the official developer site, but I needed some sheets with blank mockup screens… so I made some. Read on to view and download the files…


The Templates

Here are several PDF files of varying opacity to suit your printer and sketching styles. 

Solid Phones image
60% Phones image
40% Phones image
30% Phones image
100%-to-Wireframe Phones image

 

And now, a bit of gushing…

I have been digging around in the Windows Phone 7 apps for about a month and I am [honestly] excited about them.  The application development experience is second-to-none and is ridiculously easy with Visual Studio 2010.  Can’t wait to get my hands on the next release of the tools scheduled for September 16th, 2010.

UPDATE: Templates in Action!

IMG_1118Mr. Blurrycam stopped by to snap a picture of the templates in action.  The only way to make the “change process” less expensive is to find free erasers. 

I love the pencil-and-paper design process; anyone can do it, and no one ever gets the mistaken impression that the app is “almost done.”

Now… where did I put those crayons?

  1. Szilárd Szakács Said,

    Man, these rock so much! I just started sketching out my causal game idea with these.. it’s like storyboarding but it’s also a prototype.. i love it!

  2. Shantanu Pandey Said,

    Dude! AWESOME and this is totally an invention!!! :-D
    a must for all!

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  4. James Said,

    These are great – nothing quite beats a sharpened HB in my book! Pun intended.

    BTW I totally agree with your comments re WP development, I even like Expression Blend as an intuitive way of styling the app flow.

    (P.s. sort out your permalinks and you’ll get the google rankings these wireframes deserve).

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