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by ansy 5330 days ago
Keynotopia is a pretty good mockup alternative for iPhone and iPad apps. It's not an application per se, but it's a set of templates for Keynote (or PowerPoint or Open Office). You export the result as a clickable PDF which works in a variety of viewers like GoodReader.

http://keynotopia.com/

You can get pretty nice results that are somewhat interactive on the device itself.
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smtlaissezfaire 5330 days ago
Hmm - yeah, that's a really interesting concept.

Seems like the market is really fragmented - everything from traditional photo/vector graphics software (photoshop, illustrator), traditional wireframing (omnigraffle, etc), online wireframing (balsamiq) and even presentation software (keynote and powerpoint!)

Keynotopia seems like a smart move for those who tend to lean to the presentation side of things - though I'd find it hard to believe that a designer who likes (or is used to) working in illustrator or photoshop would want to start using keynote!

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smtlaissezfaire 5330 days ago
Just to give you guys an idea of what I've been thinking of, here's a screencast of a little prototype I've been working on in my spare time:

http://screencast.com/t/tWUPNgGht2

The UI totally sucks and it isn't well designed at all. There's no sense of clickable screens, no sharing, no ipad, no retina, and no concept of a wire (only a mock). But the germ of the idea is there.

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