1 min readApr 15, 2020
- You have to look at the flipside. The other options are low-fi or hi-fi designs /prototypes. The minute you do that INVARIABLY the first ten comments are about colors. Plus no matter what you tell them, they are going to view it as the final designs.
- I give my designers leeway to make changes to the controls, layout, or font weights, etc. I just don’t ask them to ‘color them in’. My job is to nail the interactions. If one of my visual designers comes up with a better layout or a link instead of a button, I’m all for it.
- And your alternative is sketching? For C-Suite people and all the other stakeholders? They are going to ask why you are showing your child’s art project to them.
- Axure has a feature called Sketch Effects that let you make your wires look more hand-drawn. Maybe that’s your ticket.
- Finally, you have to consider your audience. I would never show sketches to high-level stakeholders or developers, by I would show them to other people on the UX team and designer. I would never show wires to high-level stakeholders but I would to devs. To another point, wires are great for testing prototypes, but we also do hi-fi prototypes as well.
