How to create mockups

[Kushal Das]

Hi,

I want to learn how to create mockups for desktop applications. Mostly
Gnome/Gtk apps.
Any links/videos will be helpful :)


Kushal
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[Stojan Dimitrovski]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Kushal Das<kushaldas(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>  Hi, 
Hi,

>  I want to learn how to create mockups for desktop applications.
> Mostly
>  Gnome/Gtk apps. 
Mockups can be thought of as just drawings or illustrations of what an
application's UI should look like. There isn't any specific way to do
it. You can draw it up in Inkscape, or you can combine screenshots in
GIMP to create something that looks like an application. Even the most
abstract ideas can be accomplished by a programmer these days. Take,
for eg. Chromium. Chromium's UI is entirely written in GTK+.

You could even use a RAD tool, like Glade 3 to design an application's
UI ready for immediate use.

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[Rahul Sundaram]

On 08/17/2009 05:40 PM, Kushal Das wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  I want to learn how to create mockups for desktop applications. Mostly
>  Gnome/Gtk apps.
>  Any links/videos will be helpful :) 
In case, anyone is wondering why, I have written up a description of the
project we are attempting to do at

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugzilla_Desktop_Client

Please help. Any mockups for what would be a good interface for this
would be very helpful.

Rahul

[Máirín Duffy]

On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 19:10 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  On 08/17/2009 05:40 PM, Kushal Das wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  > 
>  > I want to learn how to create mockups for desktop applications. Mostly
>  > Gnome/Gtk apps.
>  > Any links/videos will be helpful :)
>  
>  In case, anyone is wondering why, I have written up a description of the
>  project we are attempting to do at
>  
>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugzilla_Desktop_Client
>  
>  Please help. Any mockups for what would be a good interface for this
>  would be very helpful. 
If you haven't already, can you open up a request for this design work
on the design team trac instance under the 'mockup request' type?
(https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/newticket)

~m

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 08/18/2009 09:36 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
>  If you haven't already, can you open up a request for this design
> work
>  on the design team trac instance under the 'mockup request' type?
>  (https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/newticket) 
I have done so at

https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/65

I am mether in #fedora-art if you need to discuss anything. Thanks.

Rahul

[Máirín Duffy]

Hi Kushal,

On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 17:40 +0530, Kushal Das wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  I want to learn how to create mockups for desktop applications. Mostly
>  Gnome/Gtk apps.
>  Any links/videos will be helpful :) 
Are you wanting to create mockups for apps that have not yet been
created or are you looking to create mockups to improve upon existing
apps?

(I ask because the approach is slightly different for either case)

Also, do you mean from a general workflow/design approach; or do you
mean from a very specific, multi-step gimp-inkscape workflow? (or both?)

~m