Photo from teehanlax.com

As some of you jump into the minimally-charted waters of iPhone-app design for your credit union, I hope these stencils and user-interface elements come in handy for mocking up and prototyping designs:

• Layered PSD
• Omnigraffle wireframe stencils

On a related note – which credit unions are doing something cool with the iPhone or iTouch? If something’s impressed you, drop a line in the comments. The best find (this is a very subjective contest) gets a $5 Starbucks card and this brilliant pair of sunglasses.

(links via Ilya Vedrashko’s Ad Lab)

A couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to interview Cornerstone Advisors’ strategy and tech guru Steve Williams for the very first CUES Experience Podcast.

What can you expect to see happening in the FI tech-space over the next year? Listen to find out:

The rest of the CUES Experience Podcasts will happen live from the conference from May 13th – 16th. They’ll be hosted by Currency Marketing’s Tim McAlpine, so you know they’ll be great (for a sample, check out Currency’s podcast).

And on a final note, if you’re coming, don’t forget about my tour of Summit Brewing Company. It will be many good times.

Thanks to Christopher Stevenson from CUES for the opportunity and Steve Williams for his time and brilliance.

Over an IM chat earlier today, Trey Reeme explained to me how he used nearly-free tools to set up a mobile site for his credit union in no time (formatting and links added):

It was cake so far – no mobile banking yet, but that’s on our vendor’s end.

I just:

1. Grabbed a wordpress blog
2. Put a couple pages up of plain html
3. Grabbed the rss feed
4. Plugged into a mofuse site
5. It created an iPhone-optimized .mobi site

Here it is: http://tdecurates.mofuse.mobi

It’s just a test site for now – a proof of concept – but it shows that I can build a separate iPhone site in an hour.

There are limitations – advertising plagues the free version. But for $3 a month, the paid version is not bad.

Awesome tip, Mr. Reeme.