Programming Google Glass

Wireframes and Mock-Ups

We’ve worked on our designs by writing raw HTML, but professional designers often prefer to work in a visual, or wireframe, environment. It’s often easier and better to draw out the flow and how the cards will look before ever writing a line of code. In fact, drawing out your workflow can sometimes speed up the coding effort, since you have specific final goals to code against.

Being so new, Glass suffers from a dearth of design environments. You can, of course, use any existing graphic-design or web-design software to create wireframes and mock-ups. UXPin was the first to release a Glass design kit.^[30]

UXPin (see Figure 27, ​The basic UXPin page layout​) is not an expensive suite, but you can sign up for a free trial ...