An Introduction to Wireframes for Design Students
An Introduction to Wireframes for Design Students
Wireframes are for people who love to organize things that should never have required organizing in the first place. When a design becomes completely perverted beyond recognition and all of it’s principles are mangled by feature creep, inter-department competition and team bloat- the wireframes are created as a layer of documentation to hold things together until the leper of a project can slime its way into the market.
Wireframes are like a spreadsheet. You create a spreadsheet because your shit is so fucking complex you dont know what the fuck is doing what. Same for wireframes. You don’t have to wireframe to ideate, THATS CALLED A SKETCH. Wireframes are documentation so that every braindead zombie who is on your project can understand exactly what is supposed to happen.
Many people who create wireframes are people who cannot code or design themselves so they simply organize other peoples crappy stuff.
So remember- wireframes are for people who believe that the bigger the project is, in anyway (team size, file size, page count, money size, number of lines in your excel spreadsheet), the better. Wireframes are for these people to waste time on projects that don’t deserve to be completed anyway.
Enjoy wireframes.
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