Ask for a Mockup of a Screen

Details

Create in Content now has a Mockup type, in the Visuals group next to Presentation, Flyer, Infographic, Brochure, Logo and Web page. It asks for two things: the name of the screen, and a short brief covering what the screen is for, the sections that belong on it, and the visual direction you want. Pick the employee to build it and the design comes back as a PNG. It is deliberately a picture and not working code, which is exactly what you want while you are still deciding what something should look like. Nobody has to build anything before you can react to it. Put it in front of a designer, a developer, or a customer, get the reaction, and change the brief instead of changing the build. Like every creator in Content, the card is a short brief rather than an editor, and whatever you typed survives closing it. The finished image comes back through chat and lands in your Drive, where you can mark it up: click the part you want changed for a numbered pin, write your note beside it, and ask for a revised version. A mockup is cheap enough to throw away and redo, which is what makes it useful this early in a decision. One limit worth stating plainly: it is a still image of a single screen. It is not a clickable prototype, and it does not produce a working page.

What changed

• New Mockup type in Create, in the Visuals group with Presentation, Flyer and Infographic
• Two fields: the screen name, then its purpose, sections and visual direction
• Comes back as a PNG you can drop into a chat, a deck, or a doc
• Mark it up with pins in Drive and ask for a revised version
• A still image of one screen, not a clickable prototype