How to create interactive prototypes with PowerPoint Why PowerPoint? It contains a useful design tools, making it ideal to create wireframes and clickable prototypes for a variety of applications quickly and cheaply, without having to learn complex design apps. These features include basic shapes, visual styles (fill, stroke, shadow,…), slide transitions, grouping, slide masters, and hyperlinks. Here’s how these features work together to create a prototype for an image sharing app for win 7 phone in less than 30 minutes. Step1: Plan it Online image and photo editor - Aviary.com's Phoenix As per this blog post from July, we have officially closed the advanced suite of Flash tools (previously located at advanced.aviary.com) in order to focus on our new company direction powering the photo experience in 3rd party apps. While we hoped that everyone would have taken the time to retrieve their files since our notice, we recognize that the message may not have been seen by everyone. Therefore, if you were not able to retrieve all of your files to date, please contact us at support@aviary.com from the email address associated with your account to help retrieve your files.
Introduction to Growth Hacking for Startups Pintrest, Facebook, Zynga, Dropbox, AirBnb… What do they all have in common? They’ve all used growth hacking techniques to grow their user base from zero to millions (and sometimes hundreds of millions). Growth Hacking isn’t viral marketing (although viral marketing is part of it). Growth Hacking comes to solve a very common problem in consumer startups: getting to the first x thousand/million users quickly once the product has launched and the hype has passed. The term “Growth Hacking”, invented by Sean Ellis, and made popular by Andrew Chen, a Silicon valley marketer and entrepreneur, is a combination of two disciplines – marketing and coding: 16 Design Tools for Prototyping and Wireframing Article This article was written in 2009 and remains one of our most popular posts. If you’re keen to learn more about wireframing, you may find this recent article on free online wireframing tools of great interest. In recent years the number of tools available to help you document and design your web site has just exploded.
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How do you issue the right number of shares/options to an employee or an advisor? HM Revenue & Customs at Mevagissey Harbour (Photo credit: Cross Duck) Most founders have desire to share their equity with people that helped them along the way, both as a thank you, but also as a motivation tool. However, how to share is always a big question mark for every Founder.
Interactive Prototypes with PowerPoint Have you ever wished your early design mockups could come to life, so you could try out the navigation, test an interaction, or see if a button label just feels right when you click on it? Sure, you could invest in a dedicated prototyping tool, but you can create surprisingly quick and effective prototypes with a software program that’s probably sitting on your hard drive right now. It’s PowerPoint—and no, I am not kidding.
Social Media Marketing: Separating Fact From Fiction : Business 2 Community Webcasts (2 ratings)You must be logged in to rate this webcast. Overview Are you tired of hearing how social media is the best invention since sliced bread? Are you confused about what social media can actually deliver? Top 3 FREE Wireframing and Mockup Tools – Lumzy, Mockup Builder and Tiggr Compared and Reviewed What is Wireframe? Mockup? Prototype?
5 Startup PR Myths Debunked There are many common myths surrounding the ideas of Public Relations and in our world – startup PR. The most common myth being that PR is only about media releases and nagging journalists – we recommend not nagging and taking a much more friendly approach. But there are several myths surrounding the idea of startup PR that are less talked about but more rampant - which is why we felt it was our responsibility to set things straight. 10 Completely Free Wireframe and Mockup Applications Every web designer and developer should have a good and reliable wireframe (mockup or prototype) tool at there disposal. The importance of such a tool differentiates amongst web designers and developers, some use them, some don’t. Personally, I use them. It is in this initial stage of development that makes web design enjoyable, the coming together of the clients needs and your own creative ideas onto a blank canvas, allowing you to plan effectively the visual arrangement of the sites content. The downside is that a good and reliable wireframe application can come at a heavy price, have you seen the cost of a good wireframe application?
How to hire the right developer for your tech startup I’m currently co-founding ContentForest – a content marketing platform – and we just crossed an exciting line: our private beta is only a few days away and I’m very happy with the way the product is shaping up. Getting to this state has been a process wherein we learned really valuable lessons. How to get the right development talent in place is one of these. Since this process was rather tricky for us, I want to share a step-by-step process you can follow to hire the right talent for your idea. Step 0: Preparation, or what do I want? You’ve found a market opportunity, structured your thoughts into a concept, done your homework and the wireframes are in place – great!
Blog on website wireframe and wireframe design Justinmind invites you to take part in its beta testing program of Justinmind Prototyper 4.0. Lots of improvements have been made in the dynamic data grids, the workspace, keyboard shortcuts, tooltips, and many more. The beta has already started but you can join us anyway! What is a beta version? A product’s beta is an officially released version of a product which includes most of the product’s functionality.
A Full-Stack Web Team Will Provide Much-Needed Breadth And Depth To Your Startup Editor’s note: Phil Freo leads the engineering team at ElasticSales. Previously he was at Quizlet and Google. Follow him on Twitter. There is often confusion about the various roles of a web engineering team. I have had to explain, even to technical recruiters, the differences between these roles and that the lines that separate them are often fuzzy.