Wireframes are most effective if you use them in the right time and present them to right people. All existing wireframes could be divided in a few types. We would talk about different wireframe types in next few weeks in our blog. In this post you could find interesting information about sketches.
Sketches or Sketch Style Wireframes
This type is best used if you need quick experiment with the main ideas of the future design. It is also good in case you need quick feedback on your design ideas.
Many of designers like this part of the design process. It is the best time to feel free and to try new ideas using only pencils, pens and a piece of paper. Such type of wireframing process could give more freedom for the designer, as he mustn’t make all his ideas in digital form. Also, it motivates to put something on the paper, in case of lack of inspiration, anything what would be on the mind at that moment.
This type of wireframing would be perfect if you need to communicate in a visual way to some from your internal team and in case you haven’t much time for details. If you are doing some changes in sketches, you always could say that “this is only a sketch”. This wouldn’t give the feeling for others that this is a final version. But this is not the right type of wireframe if you want your team to imagine all design in details. Especially it is not impossible if any content was not included in to the sketch.
Bellow you could find a few great examples of sketches.
In Mockup Builder you could create wireframes that look like sketches. You will be interested in this tool if you don’t like sketching by pencil or pen or if you are working in the tight team, where regular communication is very important for keeping project goals clear.
An example of digital sketch wireframe done in Mockup Builder (also available in our Gallery: http://mockupbuilder.com/Gallery/214/)
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