Liveview Development

Thanks to VHX's newest addition, Courtney Burton, I checked out a great deal of Desktop to Mobile Device design previewers. I wish there was a snappier name for it but, basically, I needed a way to view designs meant for a smaller screen on the actual device. You would think having the right canvas size would suffice but there's something entirely different about interacting with a design on a phone than there is just seeing it on your giant screen. After much trial and error - xScope, Skala, Mockup and Silkscreen - I landed on Nicholas Zambetti's LiveView. It is, for my money, the simplest and easiest solution. It lacks a little bit of elegance (I'd love to be able to lock the preview area and still click under it but that's getting into the weeds a bit) but it does what it promises with zero hassle. It's also helped immensely with improving a User Experience because now I can see that those form fields I was using were just way too small.