Brief History of Wireframes

It comes from Product Design as shown in the picture. Wireframes were a visual representation of 3D objects. Usually created through computer modelling but the above picture is a real life steel wireframes, really standing on the road.

It’s an actual full-scale three-dimensional wireframe model created by artist Benedict Radcliffe. It was comissioned by Japan’s Dentsu Inc. for an ad campaign in the Middle East. Each of Radcliffe’s models, which also include a Lambourghini, is painstakingly crafted from welded 10mm steel tubes.

What are Wireframes?

Wireframes is a grey-scale visual representation of the structure of application screens (or web pages).  It indicates the size, placement, layout, widgets of the elements on the screen. Although it does not have colors, it show to a large extent the visual hierarchy of the page. Wireframes can be built using paper or computer apps like visio and powerpoint.

see Amazing Paper Wireframes

Change Quickie

Small irritants become a big pain when it comes to high productivity applications. The more someone believes and appreciates this the better will life be for the end user.

Its a nice challenge to convince someone why the items in the list should act on a single click vs. a double click. Or why should the space allocated to a list of choices should be bigger by 20%. So why should anyone care about these small issues?

Well looks like someone did...

At the supermarket the other day, while i was getting change from the cashier I noticed that the screen showed the possible choices of amount that the customer would have paid. So all the cashier had to do was touch the correct choice and look at the change to give back. How cool is that!!