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Better use actual copy which will allow you to discover the boundaries of your design, e.g. margins, text size, text width, etc.
by arkitaip 14y ago
Better use actual copy which will allow you to discover the boundaries of your design, e.g. margins, text size, text width, etc.
- andrewmunsell 14y agoThis is for wireframes, in which you probably shouldn't be obsessing over text sizes and fonts.
- pan69 14y agoWireframes should be created around the content. Content should not be an afterthought.
- judofyr 14y agoThere's a time and place for everything. Sometimes you want a wireframe with blocky/blurry text (to experiment with the layout). Sometimes you want a wireframe with Lorem Ipsum (to experiment with the text/font in a generic way). Sometimes you want a wireframe with real content. This is just another tool in the toolbox.
- fudged71 14y agoThere are several levels of mockups/wireframes, as well as different kinds of clients. Both methods seem like they have their uses.
- mnicole 14y agoThis doesn't account for dynamic content.
- pan69 14y agoBecause dynamic content is simply made up, right?
- vacri 14y agoThe whole point of Lorem Ipsum is that it's for pre-copy design. Once your copy is in, you can do final tweaks, but Lorem Ipsum is there so you don't get it pixel perfect for copy set X and then have to redo it all when Legal says "insert just this one word here", throwing out your overly-specific alignment.