{"id":832,"date":"2019-07-05T16:08:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T22:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kennethcurtis.com\/articles\/?p=832"},"modified":"2019-07-05T16:20:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T22:20:36","slug":"all-this-talk-about-wireframing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethcurtis.com\/articles\/2019\/07\/05\/all-this-talk-about-wireframing\/","title":{"rendered":"All this talk about wireframing\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-833 size-medium\" style=\"float: left; margin: 15px;\" src=\"https:\/\/kennethcurtis.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/wireframe-300x211.png\" alt=\"wire framing image\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kennethcurtis.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/wireframe-300x211.png 300w, https:\/\/kennethcurtis.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/wireframe-250x176.png 250w, https:\/\/kennethcurtis.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/wireframe.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>So lately I&#8217;ve been trying to get into wireframing as the first step in the process of creating an web site. I&#8217;ve gone into detail about why I think it&#8217;s important in a few articles. If you&#8217;re interested in the subject I suggest that you search for wireframing. The main idea is to remove some of the waste of designing a site with expected elements. The truth is, is that many times you don&#8217;t know what those elements are going to be, so jumping into Illustrator or Photoshop to layout your design can waste a lot of time.<\/p>\n<p>I just read an article, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/uxplanet.org\/12-practical-tips-for-creating-better-wireframes-be0418777946\">12 Practical Tips for Creating Better Wireframes<\/a>&#8221; that seemed to <!--more-->encapsulate the idea that I&#8217;ve been struggling with lately. It&#8217;s a good read for understanding the reasons to wire frame and the benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Although the author goes into steps that I don&#8217;t necessarily agree with, like sketching out on paper your layout before starting, there are some very useful tips that I wish I would have taken advantage of when I was first learning web design. Maybe the best example of this is the articles number 6, &#8220;Think in Terms of Flow, Not Individual Screens.&#8221; I have always thought of pages, and I guess maybe I thought of the flow in some higher metaphysical way, but the truth is, is that I envisioned a person landing on a page and then moving to another. I valued consistency not necessarily the flow.<\/p>\n<p>I am new to wire framing and for me this is an interesting read. I&#8217;m not really sure if the article is factual or it&#8217;s just the chosen method of the author, but if you&#8217;ve got the time, read and maybe take some of it in. It&#8217;s kind of cool because he is even using Balsamiq, my chosen wire framing software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So lately I&#8217;ve been trying to get into wireframing as the first step in the process of creating an web site. I&#8217;ve gone into detail about why I think it&#8217;s important in a few articles. If you&#8217;re interested in the subject I suggest that you search for wireframing. The main idea is to remove some of the waste of designing a site with expected elements. The truth is, is that many times you don&#8217;t know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,155,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethcurtis.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethcurtis.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethcurtis.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethcurtis.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethcurtis.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kennethcurtis.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":836,"href":"https:\/\/kennethcurtis.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions\/836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethcurtis.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethcurtis.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethcurtis.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethcurtis.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}