On sketching

When it comes to wireframes, I’ve had the tendency to create them directly with a program such as Visio or Balsamiq. But for the review submission wireframes I’m working on for Naan Map, I did sketches on paper first. Now I see why so many do it this way – it allows ideas to flow more freely and consider adding or changing things that would be difficult to do when using a program.

The two things I wish to improve on are making sketches as quickly as possible (since it’s good to have something to work with ASAP, and more than likely things are going to be changed anyway) and improving the quality of detail. Personally I am not satisfied with these, but we’ll see what the higher-ups think.

This is the first version of the review submission wireframe.

This may prove to be a little too bland, since it doesn’t give the reviewer much leeway as to what information they could add that may be useful to others.

Hence, version number two.

It has more details, but it may not cover all the bases.