Blackberry PlayBook Tablet Design Template
Filed under: Blackberry Playbook, From a former designer
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You might have already noticed the stir that the Blackberry PlayBook Tablet has been making these days. I'm interested in it, along with thousands of other developers and tech geeks. I'm planning on taking RIM up on their offer of giving me a free PlayBook tablet simply for developing an application and getting it into the Blackberry App World. As I begin my journey towards completing my application I realized that I was missing something. I begin my projects with the design first. I find that it's easier for me to visualize the rest of the application once the design is in place. It also gives you something to move towards. But I looked around and couldn't find one since the PlayBook is so new, so I made my own; and I'm giving it away to you for free.
You can download the Blackberry PlayBook Tablet Design Template as a layered CS5 Photoshop document. It contains a photorealistic representation of the Playbook at actual size in 72dpi. Once more information about the device comes out I'll consider adding widgets and graphical elements as requested. Hope you enjoy!
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That's really useful Andy - cheers. Inspired by, and using, this, I've also made a 1:1 print template for people who like to scamp by hand. You can download it here as an illustrator-editable PDF: http://www.tooschoolforcool.co.uk/sharing/templates/PlayBookPrint.pdf Hope this helps...someone. Tom
Tom Grinsted - December 17, 2010 06:33 am
Hi, thanks for this template. It's really usefull to present screenshots of your app e.g. :)
Willy - January 10, 2011 08:51 am
Thanks Willy, glad you find it useful! Would love to see some screenshots of your app!
andy matthews - January 10, 2011 08:55 am
Awesome Andy, thanks!
David Woods - March 01, 2011 07:28 am
Hi Andy, Awesome stuff! Even i am designing BB play book app and the template which you have shared will be very helpful for me. Thanks again and looking forward for more stuff.
Satishkumar - March 27, 2011 02:23 am
That is so cool. I was just asking about this!
Chris - April 19, 2011 10:41 am
Glad to share it with you Chris. If you do find UI elements I'd be happy to take them and add them to the PSD with appropriate credit.
andy matthews - April 19, 2011 07:19 pm
Are you allowing permission for use of this PSD in free and commercial projects?
Isaac - April 22, 2011 09:08 pm
Good question Isaac, the only thing you can't do is resell the PSD. Use it in commercial or non-commercial projects all you like. I'd love to see a link to them though if you remember.
andy matthews - April 23, 2011 05:56 am
Thanks, I appreciate it. I will include a link.
Isaac - April 23, 2011 09:56 am
Just a quick note of thanks, you've saved me quite a bit of time. THANK YOU!
Ben - August 11, 2011 12:49 pm
Hey thanks for all the great info! Only one problem, when i tryed opening the file it was corrupt and it didn't load.. I don't know if I did something wrong.
Derek - January 04, 2012 10:22 pm
Derek...I just tested out the download and it works fine for me. I opened the ZIP file and extracted the PSD inside it. I opened it using Photoshop CS4 and I was able to view the template. Can you confirm this is what you're doing?
andy matthews - January 05, 2012 07:06 pm
Awesome, just what I needed :)
Dawn - February 02, 2012 01:20 pm
Thanks a lot for this, sir. What's sad is that RIM doesn't provide any templates, GUI's or resources in any way like this themselves. They wonder why no one is making apps for the Berry platform? They don't provide decent documentation to do so.
Spencer - April 10, 2012 02:02 pm
Thank you very much!! Perfect! Also a BB PB Developer like Willy and I was just searching for this :D
Ahmad - July 25, 2012 03:32 pm
Great Job, thanks.
majid - July 29, 2012 05:34 am
Thank You! I couldn't find one from RIM. Is it OK to edit and use on my website?
Angus Fox - September 25, 2012 06:26 am