This document discusses different stages of "mockupitis", a condition where mockups do not accurately represent the final product. It identifies six stages: stretch fever, textorrhea, multirrhoids, consistentosis, lorem ipsum, and patternopathy. Each stage is defined and recommendations are provided to address the issues. The document also discusses tools for creating mockups and prototypes and emphasizes the importance of testing mockups against real data and user needs.
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Avoid Mockupitis
1. Avoid Mockupitis
messy
what’s this
stu here?
jay, i like what
you’re doing here
but it needs work
jbrogers
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2. Avoid Mockupitis
messy
what’s this
stu here?
jay, i like what
you’re doing here
but it needs work
jbrogers
Tuesday, 13 September 11
9. Mockupitis: Stage 1
Stretch Fever
The patient exhibits layout
assumptions that won’t
survive contact with HTML
flow and changes in aspect
ratio or display resolution.
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10. Mockupitis: Stage 2
Textorrhea
The patient exhibits
unexpected variations in
If the text don’t fit, text length that break
you can’t commit the layout or reduce
comprehension.
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11. Mockupitis: Stage 3
Multirrhoids
The patient presents
controls that are
inappropriate or unwieldy
for the number of objects
they contain.
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21. Mid-stage Mockupitis
Lorem Ipsum
Consistentosis
“The Social Disease”
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22. Mockupitis: Stage 4
Consistentosis
A A A
The patient’s content has
OR lost its internal consistency.
X Q W
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23. Mockupitis: Stage 5
Lorem Ipsum
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,
consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do
eiusmod tempor incididunt ut
labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut
enim ad minim veniam, quis
nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris
The patient is speaking a
nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo
consequat Duis aute irure dolor in
dead language.
reprehenderit in voluptate velit
esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla
pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat
cupidatat, sunt in culpa deserunt
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46. Resources
Prototyping
How Buildings Learn
Sketching User Experiences
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47. Resources
IXD11
Tim Wood “Scandalous Interaction”
UX Australia 2010
Todd Zaki Warfel “Under the Kimono”
UX Australia 2010
Anthony Quinn “The Secret Life of Deliverables”
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48. 6:15 - Agile/UX Hootenanny at Atlassian HQ
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49. Thank you.
jbrogers
mockupitis
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50. This font was scanned from 1920’s
newspaper headlines by the
H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society
www.cthulhulives.org
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