Having recently moved to an Agile environment I have been looking for ways to quickly present UI Design solutions. I do not have the time to create pixel perfect mockups up front and during the short iterations it is important for me to see the behavior then polish UI.
I started collaborating using white boards (In my opinion one of the best Agile design tools) then creating wireframes in Visio as reference for engineers. I liked using Visio as it was easier for me to make revisions and keep digital versions available for remote co-workers. While this process seemed to be speed up the process I identified two issues. I still was not seeing things fast enough to iterate over on them and dev and documentation team were looking at wireframes as finished design. Both dev and doc were becoming frustrated as UI would continually change. After talking to various engineers we found that they were taking a lot of time to try and create UI as it appeared in the wireframe. Rather than getting UI stubbed out so that we could see behavior early they were trying to align elements, refine colors, basic pixel tweaking... I wanted to clearly identify wireframes as "conceptual" so started using the sketchy Visio stencil for my wireframes. I also explained that these conceptual versions were subject to change as part of the iterative process. Once we were ready for UI polish/refinement I use Visio with standard controls or even Photoshop mock ups. Moving to sketch style has been helpful in our process. I suspect that this could vary depending on the consumer of design artifacts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=32905 ________________________________________________________________ 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
