I think it depends on the situation. Ideally, wireframes should be done, but I recently ahd a client that was really rushing things and had a tight deadline. They prodded me to come up with a mockup that approximated the final version of the website.
Was the client happy? Absolutely. They were marketing folks who wanted to get things done and do away with the engineering. On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Krystal Higgins < [email protected]> wrote: > I think this has been wholly answered, but I'll add my two cents: > > - I always, always, always sketch first. I do a ton of sketching. > It allows me to get all of my ideas out (the "what if" phase), and > allows me to have more focus when I get into wireframing. Sketching > is portable, cheap and fast. > > - I do show my sketches (and even involve in my sketching phase) my > direct manager, other creatives, and the developers > > - I don't show the sketches to high-level stakeholders; mostly > because I don't get that many meetings with them, and so it's > better use of their time to show something more refined. They're > more interested in the scenarios/research behind the wireframes than > seeing how sketches led to those wireframes. > > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=48924 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > -- Regnard Raquedan, MBA, Msc. mobile: +63.919.2907711 email: [email protected] web: http://www.raquedan.com blog: http://www.RegnardRaquedan.com -- Follow me! http://www.twitter.com/regnard ________________________________________________________________ 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
