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Playing with Cliches for the iPad Mockup

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In order to make the iPad mockup really work on your favor, you have to work with cliches in order to really tell a story during your professional presentation.

Cliché. This is one of the most divisive things in the world. People like that it is easy to remember. On the other hand, some people want to push forward individuality and so they hate clichés. In terms of presentations, perhaps clichés are not too welcome either. But it might be different with presentations for digital products and you want to use mockups in order to get the attention of your audience.

The mockup is a truly wonderful presentation tool for digital products or even marketing materials. It is easy to make—actually, you don’t truly make it since there are free mockups available in various websites like UX Planet. All you have to do is download them and edit it with your own content.

 If you are trying to showcase your app through a mockup, the iPad might be the best deal. The iPad mockup is really a great frame to show off your app because the device is great for digital applications. Apps are generally something that you want to use while you are mobile so that means your iPhone or your iPad Mini because they are very convenient to use wherever you are. Also, the fact that it is an Apple device tells you that improvements are just around the corner.

 So use the iPad mockup for your presentation in front of professionals.

Tell a story with your iPad mockup

The iPad mockup is guaranteed to be a good visual for a professional presentation. But if you really want to elevate your display, you should make your presentation relatable. Of course, how to make it relatable will depend on your digital product.

 A gaming app, for example, should attract the younger generation. However, since it is a gaming app, the highlight will be the game. Since games already involve a lot of images and features, you don’t really have to go heavy on styles and colors when you choose a free PSD mockup. You can go simple with a clay mockup, which is not dependent on the stylistic elements. This is a good approach if you have a more photo-based presentation. When it comes to games, there are so many elements to show off, so you will need a lot of images. Make sure you download the vector mockup from a reliable website to ensure that you only have high-resolution frames. Your digital product will not come out strong if your mockup templates are not of great quality.

Still based on the gaming app proposal, you could show off your design through the iPad Pro PSD mockup. When you go by the iPad lineup, the iPad Pro is the strongest. This means that it covers stronger effects and heavier load. That is exactly what you need with gaming apps. So by using the iPad Pro as the screen of your product, you are already telling something. Since this kind of mockup usually just uses the screen of the iPad Pro on the mockup, then you have to use the screenshot of the most powerful image of your game design. Although, you can always present a few frames of the iPad Pro mockup showing different aspects of the game.

 

How to optimize clichés

Some of the mockups feature the device in real-world situations. This means that the mockup might feature a person holding the iPad, which has the screen facing the audience for easy customization. Let’s continue with the gaming app example. Since the target market is the gamer—basically young, a student—maybe, but definitely not an employee. So this is where the cliché comes in. Of course not all gamers are slackers. Some young professionals are gamers, too. Heck, women and husbands can be gamers too. But this is how cliché works. You can’t use the mockup that shows a person playing with a game on his iPad in a corporate setting. So the mockup that shows a person using his iPad while facing his office desk cannot be used.

There is a mockup that only shows the hands of a person holding an iPad—that might work. After all, gamers really need to use both hands when trying to win in their digital quest. There are many variations of this kind of mockup so you just have to be mindful of the clichés that go with it. You definitely can’t use the mockup with the iPad and a person using the Apple pencil on the screen. That is more appropriate for designers.

 

Versatility

One great benefit from the mockup is that you can show off the versatility of your digital design. Still on the gaming app—the iPad and iPhones mockup would work really well when you want to showcase mobility. This means that you are trying to demonstrate to your professional audience that your game can be played wherever people are because they can play the game on their iPad or iPhones. They can play on the train, on the cab, at the park, or at the restaurant while they are on their lunch break. But by using both the screens of the iPad and the iPhone, you are showing the audience that your game will look just as neat on the smaller screen and the bigger screen.

The devices mockup, on the other hand, is an expanded version. It shows the other Apple devices on the same frame as the iPad and iPhone. So you have the iMac, MacBook and sometimes the Apple Watch. This indicates that your game can be played on whatever device. That is how versatile your digital product is.

 

Perspective mockup

There is another way to showcase your digital product using a free iPad mockup: the perspective mockup. In this frame, you have various angles of the screen of the subject iPad. This is an important design for various reasons. One, it could be used to show the different pages or screenshots of your digital product. Second, it is a great way to showcase details of your product. There are also different variations of this kind of mockup and they are not limited to just the iPad Airs or other iPad models. You can use perspective mockup for iPhones of different model.

Any of these mockups are so easy to customize just as long as you have Photoshop and Sketch applications. You just download the PSD file of your preferred mockup and you just drag and drop your own content to the screen of the device.

 

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