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While it might be tempting to think about what the site might look like on a desktop, we're going to start with the mobile version first.
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So far, we've just added a button.
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We're going to add a lot more and while
it might be tempting to think about what
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the site might look like
on a desktop browser,
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we're going to start with
the mobile version first.
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A desktop or a laptop screen has a lot
more space than a handheld smart phone.
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When you create a desktop website and
work your way back to a mobile design,
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there's a temptation to fill
in all the available space.
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Then it's hard to condense all of
those elements onto the screen
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of a mobile device.
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Thinking mobile first is a lot
easier because you can start
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with the simplest version that includes
the most important details and
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then expand on those ideas to
create the desktop design.
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Let's keep going.
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Beyond the call to action, the next
two important things are capturing
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the attention of the customer and
educating them about the product.
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We can't educate unless we
have their attention first.
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So let's grab them with nice,
large product photos.
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Because we're on a mobile screen where
horizontal space is usually limited and
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we want both the photos and
the call to action to be large,
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we probably shouldn't
put them side-by-side.
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So let's add the product
photos just above the button.
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So up here from my tools, I'll go to Media
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and drag out an image component here.
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And this will just be a blank image,
we can resize this however we'd like.
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I'm gonna move this preorder
button a little bit.
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And I think that looks pretty good.
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Now let's zoom out a bit
to view more of the canvas.
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To zoom in and out on Windows, hit
the CTRL key and the plus or minus keys.
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On a Mac, it's CMD and
the plus or minus keys.
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So I'll just zoom out
a little bit here and
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I'll move these two things to
get us some more space to work.
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This is looking good but right now,
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it's not immediately clear what this is,
or what we're pre-ordering.
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This is where we can lean on some
of the copy to do the explaining.
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So in the document we received
from the marketing and
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product teams, say we have a tagline, so
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we'll drag out some text here and it says,
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keep your lawn healthy period and
funky exclamation point.
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Right now this is too small, so
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I'll scroll down and
increase the font size here.
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Let's maybe do 24.
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I think that looks good.
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And let's make sure this is centered so
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that no matter how we resize this,
the text will always be in the middle.
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And then we can drag this around and
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use the smart guides in Balsamiq mock ups
to help us center it with other elements.
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This might also be a good place to mention
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when this product is going to
be available, so let's add that.
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I'll drag out some more text here and
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we'll say, Coming this Summer.
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And again, this is a little too small,
so let’s make that bigger
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and we'll put that just to
the left of the button here.
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And let’s just zoom in a little bit,
so this is easier to see.
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There we go.
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When people are pre-ordering something,
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they want to know when they
can expect the product.
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So the visual proximity
of coming this summer,
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and the pre-order button
is actually communicating.
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If we were to reverse the positions
of these two text blocks,
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it might still work but the context
might be a bit more difficult to read.
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If people were to see coming this
summer as the first thing they read,
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it might be confusing.
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What's coming this summer exactly?
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Now let's add some of the remaining bits.
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Since this is the mobile version
of the site, let's make a spot for
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a small product logo in the upper left.
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So I will go to images here or
media rather and grab an image,
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and let's just make that nice and
small like that and
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keep it up here on the left,
that will be our product logo.
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And because this is part of a larger
website, we want add some navigation.
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So let's add a menu button
in the upper right here,
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I'll drag out the icon component here.
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And then we can search for
an icon that we want.
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So I'll type in something like menu,
and there is our little three line
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hamburger menu and
we can change the size of it here and
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Balsamiq Mockups will change it to medium,
I think that's pretty good.
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Let's make the logo a little
smaller to match up with that.
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That works and
I'll align this with the right side.
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And we know that our site visitors
are heavy social media users.
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So we can get away with iconography
like this because they've
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probably seen it in other websites.
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Next if the site visitor still wants
to know more about the product,
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they'll likely scroll down the page and
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let's add some of the remaining
marketing copy there.
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So I'll just select text and
let's grab a block of text.
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And in Balsamiq mockups we don't
have to type in anything exactly,
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we can just have this
nice text block here, and
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that will be our
additional marketing copy.
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And if you want, you can put in the real
copy there and in fact, that is
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a little bit better so that you know the
exact spacing, but this is fine for now.
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So let's zoom out just a bit so
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that we can see the whole
length of the site there.
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And finally at the bottom of the page,
let's add iconography for
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the company's social media profiles since,
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again, this will be something
that speaks to our audience.
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So I'll move this text
up just a little bit and
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let's go back to our icons here, and
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we could just drag in the icon component,
or we can search for icons here.
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So I'm gonna look for Facebook.
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So we'll go to the f's here and
I'm just gonna grab this Facebook square.
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That's good.
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And then let's scroll over to Twitter.
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And of course, we could add more social
media profiles if we wanted to, but
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we'll just do these two.
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There is the Twitter square,
so we'll drag that in,
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and let's just put these side by
side at the bottom of the site and
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then we'll select both of them to
kind of get them centered together.
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This is a good start and
now we're ready to move on.
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