The best app ideas don’t necessarily come from the ranks of iOS developers. Anyone can have a good idea for a new app. The challenge is in getting that new idea down in a way that makes it easy to share and visualize. For both developers and non-developers alike, the App Store has a selection of design tools for the iPad that each play a unique role in the process of evolving a good idea into a great one. — In the “better than a bar napkin but still sort of a bar napkin” category, there’s UI Sketcher. In this app, all you get is virtual graph paper and a selection of five different pens.  If you want to pass around an iPad for a rapid session of brainstorming, then a free form based designer like UI Sketcher is the best choice. I would recommend investing in a stylus like the Read More

37signals which you may know for their web-based products and services such as Basecamp, Highrise, Backpack and Campfire is out with its first iPad application called Draft. As you can figure out from the app’s name, it’s a tool that helps you “get an idea out of your head and into a drawing” so you can share it with the entire team. If you’re familiar with 37signals’ philosophy of doing business, you know what to expect – a simple app that does what it says, nothing less and definitely nothing more. It lacks features, but that’s the point – not to overwhelm you with its complexity, but to be a useful tool that you will actually frequently use. You can sketch diagrams in white, red, or a combination of both on Draft’s black canvas. Each drawing will be automatically saved in a library from where you can send it to your Read More

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