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Wireframes for the WickedMichael Angeles, Nick Finck and Donna SpencerMarch 16, 2009
Use #wickedwire when commenting on twitter
SXSW Interactive 2009 - Austin, TX
Michael Angelesis an interaction designer living in Brooklyn, NY. He is Director of User Experience at Traction Software and publishes the UX design site Konigi.
@jibbajabba
Nick Finckis the Director of User Experience at Blue Flavor, a web design company that focuses creating web experiences. He lives and plays in Seattle, WA.
@nickf
Donna Spenceris an information architect, interaction designer, writer, teacher for Maadmob (her company) in Canberra, Australia.
@maadonna
What is a Wireframe?
Who are they for?
•Design team
- Discuss ideas and approaches
- Critique each others work
•Business people
- How will it affect their day
- Have you understood the
business rules & context
Users of documentation•Managers
- Is the overall approach a good one
•Developers
- Exactly how should this work and
how will I implement it
What is the process?
Moving from Sketching to Wireframing
Adaptation from Sketching the User Experience by Bill Buxton
Types of Wireframes
•Reference Zones
•Low Fidelity
•High Fidelity
•Storyboards
•Standalone
•Specification
Types of Wireframes
Reference Zones
•What it is
- Shows just major positioning of content blocks
•Use to
- Discuss a big idea or concept early in a project
- Show the overall structure of particular pages
- Show how a family of pages work together
•Watch out for
- Some people can't think abstractly
Reference Zones
Reference Zones
High Fidelity Wireframes
•What it is
- Shows a lot of detail, as much as in the built
product
•Use to
- Work through the detail of how an interaction
(or part of one) will work
- Ensure the designer and stakeholders both
have the same idea about how something
works
•Watch out for
- Readers get bogged down in detail
- Leave time to absorb the detail
High Fidelity Wireframes
High Fidelity Wireframes
High Fidelity Wireframes
High Fidelity Wireframes
Storyboards
•What it is
- A sequence of 'screens' that show the flow
across time
•Use to
- Show how the wireframes fit together
- Show how a user will experience a workflow
- Demonstrate a task end-to-end
•Watch out for
- Show tasks before & after for a whole context
- Demonstrate core tasks in one flow
- Demonstrate exceptions in a separate flow
Storyboards
Storyboards
Storyboards
Storyboards
Standalone Wireframes
•What it is
- A wireframe that can be understood without
you there
•Use to
- Communicate any of the wireframe types we've
discussed, but in a way that means they can
be understood without you
- Document for future reference and use
•Watch out for
- Everything has to be included
- Lots of annotations are needed
- It can be hard to follow linkages between
screens
Standalone Wireframes
Standalone Wireframes
Standalone Wireframes
Wireframe by Tom Watson of Blue Flavor
Specification Wireframes
•What it is
- A wireframe with enough detail to be built
•Use to
- Development
•Watch out for
- Everything has to be included
- all states (logged in, logged out, error)
- data sources and destinations
- all actions
- all validations
- It must stand alone
- Talk to your developers to make it usable for
them
- Never show this to business people or users
Specification Wireframes
Specification Wireframes
Specification Wireframes
Sketch Style Wireframes
Sketch Style Wireframes
Balsamiq.com - Balsamiq Mockups
Sketch Style Wireframes
Konigi.com OmniGraffle Sketch Stencils
Thank you!
Thank you!
Come to our party tonight, we’ll get you drunk!
?Questions?