Prototyping !with Bootstrap & Less

Ivan Potančok"CEO of vibration.sk

Prototyping with Bootstrap & Less

1.  Design process 2.  Framework 3.  Less 4.  Case studies

Voting

1.  Designer 2.  Web designer 3.  UX designer

Design process in 2011

Design process in 2013

3. Prototype - Bootstrap & Less

Conditions""1. knowledge of HTML + CSS 2. learn framework markup 3. learn Less for faster styling

from sketch to interactive prototype

from sketch to interactive prototype

1.  Not pretty, but works 2.  Testable 3.  Static with fake data 4.  One codebase for all devices 5.  Don’t reinveting the wheels - !

use patterns

Bootstrap & Less - Advantages

1.  Clickable prototype 2.  Early state 3.  Open source 4.  Reuse of code in next development 5.  Client can imagine how it will works 6.  Responsive, Bootstrap 3 - mobile first 7.  Design patterns 8.  Glyphicons

Why Less?

1.  Bootstrap is compiled from Less 2.  Less is faster than Sass

3.  Variables 4.  Mixins 5.  Functions 6.  Operations

Example of code – three columns <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-4"> <h2>Heading</h2> <p>Content</p> <p><a class="btn btn-primary" href="#">View details &raquo;</a></p> </div>

Case study 1

Administration area for eshop system No photoshop, no axure, just sketches

Case study 1

Case study 1

Case study 1

Case study 2

First page in Photoshop

Everything else in Bootstrap and Less

Web application for social driving

Case study 2

Case study 3

Just Bootstrap and Less Web application for e-learning

YII bootstrap extension – generate CRUD in Bootstrap

Case study 3 This generate our backend programmer

Case study 4

Design in Photoshop WordPress themes on Themeforest

Bootstrap & Less as core for templates

GUI for non coders

h"ps://jetstrap.com  

h"p://www.layou5t.com/  

h"p://www.divshot.com/  

What we’ve learned It is not for everyone "designers without knowledge to code project managers can’t change prototype Better for client"can open test URL on his own device Faster it looks like web reuse prototype code in development Not for mobile apps"

Thank you

www.vibration.sk @ivusko

Let’s try it …"