Watch us create better UX solutions faster
by Brandon SchauerLeah and I have been piloting some new approaches to get around some of our frustrations with the limitations of wireframes:
- they can focus time and attention on all the wrong details and activities
- they constrain creativity
- they split up designers and teams to work alone
We call our approach “sketchboards,” a technique that allows designers and teams to explore and evaluate a range of concepts, getting to better UX solutions faster. We’ve found that this approach:
- allows us to iterate faster towards more creative solutions
- better supports the design of flows and highly interactive experiences
- incorporates the input of the entire team; our clients and partners love it
- defines what we need to document in wireframes, or just skip ahead and begin prototyping
The video below takes you quickly through the sketchboard technique, but be sure to read the essay that contains more details, templates, and examples.
Leah and I will be sharing this as an agile-friendly approach in a workshop titled “Good Design Faster” at UXWeek 2008. Come join us!
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December 20th, 2007 at 11:49 am
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January 2nd, 2008 at 7:58 pm
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January 22nd, 2008 at 7:03 am
Brandon,
I am a very big fan of this method, it applies very good to UI work, we think it is also applicable in many more (business) areas. We use this kind of “design thinking” in all of our user experience engagements.
We stick similar paper rolls on there using magnets, but really often we don’t need the rolls to be transportable and we just use the whiteboard itself.
We love big sketchspace so much that we even developed our product for it. No more meetings, but actual hands on idea development using a shared drawing surface.
let me know what you think of our Sketchalots or the whole innvire concept.
Cheers
ilya
January 22nd, 2008 at 9:44 am
Ilya: Thanks for the comment. The portable whiteboard/tacking surface you point to is pretty nice. While more cumbersome to transport than paper, it does have one advantage — it’s erasable. Another alternative is the smaller but more portable whiteboards blogged by Kate Rutter.