Interface Papers: Sketch Your App to Life
by anthony on 05/25/12 at 10:08 am
Sketching isn’t reserved for artists and architects. It’s for interface designers too. Many designers don’t have a solid template they can use to sketch their interface design concepts. Because of this need, Interface Papers was born.
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