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Quick Interactive iPhone App Mockup: Briefs

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

Briefs, released recently at the C4 developer conference, allows iPhone developers to quickly  assemble interactive iPhone mockups through images. While the application is still rough around the edges (I couldn’t figure out how to import non-bundled briefs among other things), it functions in allowing developers and designers to “create” the application before actually coding. To use the Briefs, you’ll need a few screenshot of your application and a plist file with a .brieflist extension. Essentially in this plist file, you’re pointing to the various image screens, and putting touch areas on the screen to transition to another page. The project comes with an example brieflist to follow. Just make sure when you import screenshots and brieflists, you set the target to the actual Brief target and not the BriefCompactor. The library is located on github here.