The Mock-up Project

[LogoMount]

Yes!!! Exactly! That one looks slick! Love that eye-guy haha Would be nice to have a big pack of such different mock-ups without needing to create one by oneself

[pauland]

I'm not sure mock-ups are a great idea.

An image of a web-site/app/book on a monitor, laptop or tablet, OK.

The problem I have with fake desktop environments is that the client may judge your real work on the basis of the desktop mockup. They may take a dislike to the mockup and then you can sow doubt about the package itself.

Do they really add value?

Is it just me that thinks like that?

Love the logo.

[gwpriester]

Well, in the case of my Kindle Fire mockup, it looks a lot better than my actual photo I tried to take.

[pauland]

Yes, it works well for specific display views - what I'm referring to is trying to build a complete environment such as in the very first post.

Of course I could just be in a grumpy mood (definitely, today), but I would definitely hesitate to try and build a complete environment.

It's really hard taking pictures of a display - refections and bad lighting all conspire to give a bad result, so the mockup of a display can be effective. I've done it myself when pitching an idea to a client - made the pitch look like an app on the appstore. It wasn't convincing enough though. :-(

[gray]

They look good to me, logoMount.

[LogoMount]

That's quite sad but had not much time recently (really seems I have 4 hours in a day ), but I'm going to improve the sketches - thank you, gray! pauland, mainly people use it for some kind of wallpaper, logo, application presentations - in this cases it's really useful!