Sketching great, creative ideas down right away is very important if you are a designer. Of course, you an do it the old fashioned way by using a pen and paper but there are some great tools now that offer so much more. Here are 10 of the most useful we could find. Hope they will help you in your design process and make your work a lot easier. Know some other good ones? Leave your suggestions in the comments below.
The 960 Grid System is an effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels.
This 8.5 x 11 inch graph paper is made for visual designers, interaction designers, and information architects.
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imple and clean templates for sketching ideas down fast. Perfect for creatives.
This is for designing responsive layouts of your websitesor Pad / iPad applications. Sneakpeekit Pad© provides two versions of the same iPad mockup, with and without grids. Just print them and startsketching!
Get a blank life-size wireframing sheet with plenty of space for sketching and notes.
This is an iPhone Paper wireframing template to help you sketch your best app design ideas.
Great templates with grid squares equivalent to 10px, and tick marks that indicate the heights of the Status Bar, Navigation Bar, Keyboard, Tab Bar and Toolbar, both vertically and horizontally.
Get 4 different printable templates for sketching to iPhone.
Great iPhone sketching templates for app developers.
There are 2 versions available for this template set, one in landscape (as seen above) and one in portrait. Grab one or grab both to help develop your own apps. Each version includes 3 pages, page 1 has a vertical screen and a notes column, page 2 has a horizontal screen and a notes column.
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Theo (2 months ago)
Very useful stuff, thanks a ton!