Why Visio wireframes are outmoded (Was [Sigia-l] NYU IAclass description link)

[Lyle_Kantrovich at cargill.com]

donna at maadmob.net said:
> My current (short) project involves documenting every page into a 
> wireframe for the team to use during the build phase (using a CMS). 
> So the requirement was to have a *drawing* of every page. 

I'm assuming you're talking about a relatively small site - where each 
and every page can be quite different.  

My opinion is that when you have a larger site with lots of pages, but a 
smaller number of page types, that you generally should create a 
wireframe of each of the page types.  For example, you might wireframe a 
press release page type or example, which relates to a "template" in the 
CMS, but it's plum crazy to wireframe different variations of headings 
and body text on a page.


Lyle
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