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From vimeo.com - May 24, 2012 2:16 AM

Robin Good: With the free Keynotopia Mockup Bundle, you can draft, edit and sketch highly-detailed elements of a user interface while using only Apple Keynote (but don't fret. There are libraries and themes also for PowerPoint and other presentation tools).

The Keynotopia Mockup Bundle includes:
-> Over 1,000 vector user interface components designed entirely in Apple Keynote. The following templates are included in the bundle:
->> iPhone Mockup Templates
->> iPad Mockup Templates
->> Android Mockup Templates
->> BlackBerry Mockup Templates
->> Web Application Mockup Templates
->> Facebook Mockup Templates
->> OS X Mockup templates
->> Windows 7 Mockup Templates
->> Windows Phone Mockup Templates

"Keynotopia is the largest collection of user interface design templates that enable you to prototype and test your app ideas in 30 minutes or less using Apple Keynote, Microsoft PowerPoint, or OpenOffice Impress.

The templates include thousands of wireframe and high fidelity vector UI components, meticulously designed from scratch in Keynote, Powerpoint and OpenOffice, and fully editable and customizable without needing additional design tools."

The Keynote Mockup Templates Bundle is available in exchange for a simple tweet (normally they are $49).

Find out more: http://keynotopia.com/keynote-mockups-templates/

Templates and Themese Gallery: http://keynotopia.com/themes/

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From venturebeat.com - April 9, 2012 2:59 AM

Robin Good: If you have not noticed yet, the next design trend is all about “undesign”.

"Undesign, a minimalist, tablet-friendly approach to website design."

It's not, like Dylan Tweney writes on Venturebeat, that design has become less important, but rather that it is receding in the background to leave space for direct access to content.

"Instead of pages crowded with links, buttons, and display type of all different sizes, designers were simplifying their layouts. The smartest designers stripped away the nonessential elements of their designs, leaving clean pages that let the eye focus on whatever images or words had been put there by writers and editors.

Why?

Because if the designers didn’t simplify their web pages, readers were going to use utilities like Readability and Instapaper to do it for them."

...

"One of the first apps to embrace this sort of rectangularity was Flipboard, which launched in mid-2010. It transformed the process of browsing RSS feeds into a magazine-like experience by putting stories into a boxy, more readable layout.

Last year's big fashion trend was the color block, and this year's tech trend follows suit: It's the square. More precisely, it's the big, colorful rectangle filled with a solid color (like Windows 8) or a photograph (like Pinterest)."

Right on the mark. 9/10

Full article: http://venturebeat.com/2012/03/07/dylans-desk-design-goes-minimal-online-and-off/

Prototype Web and Mobile User Interfaces Inside Your Favorite Presentation Program with Keynotopia

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