I’ve talked about how InDesign is great for wireframing (designing a web page, for example… not for the actual HTML, but for the design aspects, as a mock-up). Now Justin Putney has gone one further and produced a whole movie at lynda.com on the topic of using InDesign to create UX (user experience) designs for apps and more.
This might seem crazy at first, but watch this intro movie where he explains his (good!) reasoning:
As you can see, InDesign offers all kinds of tools that are useful when designing user interfaces, whether it be for an iPad app or a web app or a desktop program, etc.
Here’s Justin going deeper, talking about building Multi-State Objects:
You can find the full title here: UX Design Tools: InDesign
And, if you don’t already have a lynda.com subscription, you can get a week free here.
This article was last modified on December 30, 2021
This article was first published on April 23, 2014
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