Test & Validate Your Designs on the iPhone

Briefs is a framework for packaging concept screens & control schemes that run live on the iPhone and iPod Touch. This allows you to experience the feel of your concept without the expense of development.

Each brief is simply a .plist that references images, in formats such as PNG, GIF and JPEG. Since they are image based, it allows anything from scanned paper sketches, to the full blown mockups you created in your favorite image editor. These briefs are loaded into the Briefs application and can be run directly on the device. Briefs can be loaded manually onto the device or pulled dynamically from a briefcast.

Other Uses

There are several creative uses for Briefs. Elevator pitches, notes, and interactive books can all take advantage of the technology in the framework. And using briefcasts, there is a simple avenue for distributing your content to other Briefs users.

Beta source code available today on Github

Great idea and a lot easier for designers to mock up UI for touch apps without having to learning Interface Builder or having to ask a developer to mock up for you.