[IxDA Discuss] An Idea about Drawing Wireframes

[Todd Moy]

Oleg,
this is intriguing and I have a few questions:

1. Do you see content being just labeled boxes or would they contain more
rich UI controls?  For example, in your movie service example on AuthorJet,
would "Global Navigation" exist as just "Global Navigation"--or would
someone be able to drop a tab control into it?

2. Do you see this as a replacement for wireframing or, perhaps, a tool used
earlier in the design process. It seems to me that it would work better for
the latter, where priority and rough placement is being established. That,
however, might require that the result be more fully defined later as a
traditional wireframe.

One nice thing about your approach is that it seems to be pretty easy to
implement in Dreamweaver or any html authoring tool. You could even leverage
the Yahoo User Interface Library to provide some components.

-Todd



On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:11:42, John Gibbard <john at smorgasbord-design.co.uk>
wrote:

>
> > I'd like to hear your comments. Is it going to speed
> > up wireframing? What are the other pro and cons of
> > this approach?
>
> Oleg, I liked the idea. Many of the sites I've worked on have been
> template driven and this can feel a bit like Tetris at times*, trying
> to get new ideas to fit into defined modular sections. I normally
> acheive this in Visio by setting up a grid of blue 'ruler' lines
> (not sure what their technical name is) and then snap elements into
> them. Of course this isn't quite as slick as your demo but it's a
> reasonable workaround.
>
> Best wishes,
> John
>
> * - or 'rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic' which was how it
> felt when we were perpetually moving modules around on the failing
> homepage in one of my previous roles...
>
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