I think there's a place for both -- one has high interactive fidelity and the other has high visual fidelity. I'm toying with the name "clickframes" as an alternative, so the business folks I meet with don't end up with the wrong expectations.
As for keeping copies along the way, I use enterprise wiki software to build my "clickframes" so all changes are tracked automatically. (Granted, they're page-by-page histories, so you can't easily revert the entire site to a particular point in time...) -Jonathan On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Katie Albers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I don't know if it's useful or not, but what you're showing is what I > was taught a wireframe is...and it's extremely useful because as the specs > become more specific they can be added in to the wireframe and you can very > closely approximate the current status of the application/site/product > (always being sure to keep a pure copy of each stage along the way so you > can back yourselves out if necessary). In fact, I've never really understood > why the "visio/omnigraffle/whatever Visually oriented but not functioning > wireframe is supposed to be better. > > Katie > > At 10:27 AM -0400 5/27/08, Jonathan Abbett wrote: >> >> I do this-- >> >> http://www.grokdotcom.com/wireframing.htm >> >> --and it's been very useful. >> >> The author calls it "wireframing," but everyone else in the world says >> that >> a wireframe is a low-fidelity mockup. >> >> Do other names exist for this sort of clickable, text-only, HTML >> pre-prototype? >> >> Thanks, > > Jonathan > -- > > ------------------ > Katie Albers > User Experience Strategy & Project Management > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
