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Mobile prototyping and usability testing

by Natalie Downe

15 Dec 2011

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Brief explanation of what's in my mobile folder, how I went about designing, prototyping and testing for our Lanyrd iPhone app that we built in 4 weeks (whilst also learning iOS development!)

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