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Wireframes are maps, not models. Author doesn't seem to know what a wire frame is. And doesn't seem to have any concept of how UI/UX should be done. Wireframe
by drakaal 13y ago
Wireframes are maps, not models.
Author doesn't seem to know what a wire frame is. And doesn't seem to have any concept of how UI/UX should be done.
Wireframes are typically used for determining how much of each screen something will take up. After that you move to a Mock up.
You don't need to see video play to know that the video is going to be too small if the Logo is 1600x800 on the page.
A wire frame should be more like the pencil sketch or white board image that you use to talk about what is going to where, and to be used as a "map". It doesn't convey what things will really look like as much as give you an idea of where things are and how much real estate they take up.
Think of a wireframe like a relief map. It tells you how tall the hill is, and where the canyon is, not how beautiful it will be or what color. A blue print tells you where the studs in the building will go, but you get a better picture of how the building will look from a little Styrofoam model. They are both important, but they aren't the same thing.
- buzzmckinnon 13y agoThe author's point is that for some projects wireframing may not be appropriate. I've had this experience on numerous occasions where let's say a full-color design comp or an interactive prototype would better serve the concept, which may be hard to grasp otherwise. This is especially true when taking a design first approach, or when your project gains nothing by illustrating hierarchies, navigation, or other wireframe-able things.
- drakaal 13y agoThe author either thinks the readers are either stupid and don't know the difference between a Hammer and a Screwdriver and why you can't drive nails with a screwdriver.... Or the author is stupid and was driving nails with a screwdriver and wrote this post to explain why they changed.
- destraynor 13y agoOr Drakaal is a gutless troll who wishes he could write articles that people cared or even talked about. That's also a possibility I guess.
- drakaal 13y agoI think you will find from my comments on HN, My youtube channel, and my interactions in volunteerism, with political movements, and law enforcement that I may be a Troll. But I'm not gutless. -Brandon Wirtz
- destraynor 13y agoRespect.
- andrewflnr 13y agoThis is a very low-class and frankly foolish way to interact with someone criticizing your work. Even if it's true that drakaal is not a popular content-producer, and even considering he could have phrased his points more respectfully, that's no reason to just blow off his reasoning entirely. Anyway, here we all are caring and talking about something he wrote.
- marcosdumay 13y agoLook, it's great when the person in charge of deciding policies is the same person doing the work, and the same in charge of selling it to whoever must be convinced. But most people work on different environments (yep, even when they own the company), and communicating, even things that appear obvious to one of the parties, is crucial to make right decisions on those other environments. For example, if you are looking into hiring a designer, if you didn't read the article and makes the obvious decision of asking a wireframe from the biders, you just alienated everybody that could make your site great. That this is obvious for the alienated designers changes absolutely nothing.
- seanmcdirmid 13y ago> Author doesn't seem to know what a wire frame is. And doesn't seem to have any concept of how UI/UX should be done. Don't be harsh. We all have different ideas of what wireframes are. > Wireframes are typically used for determining how much of each screen something will take up. After that you move to a Mock up. I guess web design is a bit different from the more app design field I'm used to, where wireframe is more of an interaction tool used to describe non-visual user experience and flow while the visual toolkit/guide does what the web wireframe would otherwise (not just layout, but everything else visual also). Mockup is mostly used in the early concept and planning stages before design begins in earnest. You move up from wireframe and visual guides to...prototypes.