30
2010
Windows Phone 7 ‘Bar napkin’ template PDFs
Posted under Blog Posts, Software Design
I’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.
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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!
Mr. 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?
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!
Dude! AWESOME and this is totally an invention!!!
a must for all!
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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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