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As a 10-year UXer, I totally agree! I was nodding and saying "exactly" out loud throughout the whole article. People that WANT shadows and details and pre-made
by JoelMarsh 14y ago
As a 10-year UXer, I totally agree! I was nodding and saying "exactly" out loud throughout the whole article.
People that WANT shadows and details and pre-made stuff like that are the people who want to design the UI in stead of the functional specification. The more experienced you get, the less you want them.
Here is an exhaustive list of every feature I need to make wireframes that you would call beautiful:
- shapes: rectangle, rounded rectangle, circle, triangle, line, arrow
- rectangle with an X in it, representing images
- text in a couple different sizes and two weights (bold & regular)
- a few colors (maybe 5). Shades of gray, red, green, & blue.
That's it. Anything else and you're slowing me down. Seriously.
- grannyg00se 14y agoA tablet with a stylus (eg: ThinkPad Tablet) would work well for that. Just grab it, fire up your drawing app (eg: LectureNotes) and start drawing. You get easy colour selections, box and oval drawing, and full page duplication or element copy/paste. If you don't want a full tablet just for wireframing, maybe one of those stylus peripherals (eg: Bamboo tablet) would work well. I'm surprised that you didn't mention element linking though. I would add to your list some feature that allows me to put basic actions onto an element - like a click action opening a new wireframe page. It would be great to see one of your beautiful wireframes using only those features. Sounds like a great idea for a competition. Most appealing wireframe using the fewest features wins.
- JoelMarsh 14y agoI love that competition idea. For non-drawing features I definitely agree. Linking would save lots of work.