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User Interface Sketches
After reading the great post about the different sketch styles of the designers at 37Signals, I looked back at my own style, and discover even under the same low resolution sharpie marker (while I’m always working with chalk sticks on a blackboard), I have different levels of details. From the simple drawing of a high level concept to a more detailed sketch with all the related specs in the margins. To achieved that with the same stick size, I simply use a larger part of the board for a more detailed wireframe-sketch.
We often goes from those sketches directly to the mockups, but we also, for the needs of our clients, doing cleaned and detailed wireframes in Visio. But at 99% of the time, we use the blackboard sketches to explain/sold the concept to our clients before going further in the projects.
Sticks and blackboard are the best tool I ever used to create a concept. Contrary to a pen and a piece of paper, It’s a colaboritve tool where the key players can sit in the same room and conceived something together. It’s also an easier and more interactive tool to explain your concept to a client or a team member.
Analog rules when you create…
