Pre-Order for $25

Before I commit to shipping these to lots of people, I'll need at least a dozen orders. You will get it soon, but not tomorrow so be patient. To speed it up, be sure to and have them order one also.

The price is $25 for pre-orders, going up to $30 once that arbitrary number is reached. This includes shipping to US addresses only. I love all of you equally, but shipping for poster tubes seems outrageous, so I may have to charge each country individually, and it may be like $30 or more per! If you want one, contact me and I'll put you on a list and get back to you later.

What is this thing?

It's a simple piece of plastic you use to inspect and prototype mobile interfaces and interactions. It is mostly about measuring the sizes of touch targets, but also of other visible elements, like making sure text is readable.

If you design, specify, test or evaluate mobile handsets, tablets, kiosks, games or anything with a smallish screen that people look at and touch, you will find this useful. Basically, if you think this wiki is good, and both own and like the book Designing Mobile Interfaces where it all came from, you want this. Trust me.

What the world says so far:

"This mobile touch template is pretty badass."
"Ensure your designs are fat-finger friendly."
"Coolest mobile tool I've seen in a while!"
"If you design for mobile, try to design for mobile or want to design for mobile you should buy one of these."
"Such a great idea => Plastic stencil to evaluate mobile touch."
"Nice reminder that we build for humans, regardless of how UI pixel-focused we may get."
"Please touch. Mobile UI inspection made easy."

Why not just design in Fireworks or Photoshop and use the 44 pixel cadence? Well, because most people don't use an iPhone. And iOS has different physical sizes on each piece of hardware. We need to start designing for humans, and physical sizes, not pixels.

This was community designed

I came up with the idea, then posted it and took in lots of feedback. The final result is not the same as the first prototypes I had made. See the Touch Template Archive and grab files if you want to see more about this.