Wireframes why we need them and why some of us hate them.

So here's one for all you interactive bods.

Wire frames, love them or hate them we do need them in the world of online, it gives us an idea of what content needs to be on the page at any time but what happens when this isn't the case.

Welcome to the post "When wire frames go bad!"

How do wire frames go bad? Well there are a couple of ways this could happen.

1. Account handlers take them as a layout
2. Project managers take them as a layout
3. Client takes them as a layout

To be honest any one that does in my opinion is an idiot but you can get all sorts in this industry, but bar this problem wire frames are very important they give visual references to sections of a website that functional specifications just wont give (and it's a slightly less dull.... slightly).

So for all people that are looking to go into online your creative development is just about to get a little bit more complicated.

Why?

Well as previous posts have pointed out; online has to work a lot harder. It has relies on more than just a good idea, as for this post we will see how wire frames effect the creative process.

When building most things that are online based a good idea of the content is always good, I suppose some might say that this is the interactive version of initial scamps.

So by creating a wire frame you now know roughly what type of functionality and experience you are going to get.

Pssst don't forget the first part of the post, always manage expectation and let people know it's a "wire frame/scamp".