Fidelity in Design: Nutshell on UX Booth
People swear by their design process. Rachel Glaves insists on sketching by hand; Dan Brown urges extensive wireframing; while Ryan Singer goes straight to HTML. Heated debates arise at conferences as advocates staunchly defend their favorite techniques.
With all of these different methods to choose from, should you be sketching, wireframing, mocking-up, or prototyping? The answer, simply put, is yes you should.
Design methods are not mutually exclusive. Rather, each method exists on a continuum of fidelity, ranging from low fidelity sketches to high fidelity HTML prototypes. Each method is well-suited for a particular phase of the design process, with one level of fidelity often leading into the next.
Nutshell user experience lead Tyler Tate outlines how we utilize sketches, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes in designing the Nutshell CRM. Read the whole post on UX Booth.
Tyler Tate
Tyler is the user experience lead at Nutshell. He has been working on the web for a decade and is the creator of the 1KB CSS Grid. Tyler lives in London with his wife Ruth and son Galileo. You can keep up with him on Twitter.