byrichardpowell:
Over the past few years I’ve started to question the limitations of the humble wireframe. Afterall:
- A wireframe has fixed dimensions, this is not something we should aspire to in a website design.
- A wireframe makes assumptions about content
- A wireframe only pays lip service to brand, typography, grid and design. These things are still part of the users experience.
Perhaps you would argue that a wireframes fixed dimensions can be by-passed by adding more wireframes to represent many different viewport sizes. But the question has to be, how many breakpoints do we represent? 2 breakpoints? 4? 6? 12? Furthermore can wireframes actually represent content accurately? If they can its not without significant effort. Effort that I suggest would be better spent in the browser or in a design package.
I believe wireframes are best when they are many, quick, low fidelity and easily discarded. They are a brain storming tool that will alude to the best solution, but they are only a very small part of fleshing out the solutions details. Wireframes certainly have their use, but I think user testing, analytics, UI design, device & browser testing have a much larger place when it comes to understanding how to solve the design problem. Spending too much time on wireframes, or basing an entire web design process will damage the users experience.
My new art directed blog wireframe!
Checklist of stuff to do for my professional practice module tomorrow! Got most of them, just need to collate them together.
Veezo is a concept for an application that intelligently recommends and adapts available Films, TV Shows and Music for Streaming. It allows content to be bookmarked to a users collection and share and suggest content to friends.
Music: ‘Summer Flings’ by We Were Evergreen
Thanks to David Clegg from the Trebus Project for supplying the audio of the monologues. Thanks also to my family for allowing me to use our personal photo albums.
facebook.com/pages/The-Trebus-Project-Ltd/150281061708809
An interactive audio-visual environment to raise awareness for, and stop the social stigma that comes from being diagnosed with Dementia. It makes the user think that they should not back away and fear Dementia.
My grandma suffers from Dementia and has been in care for many years now. She cannot remember any family members.
Using an Arduino, when the user moves closer to the projection, the photographs from my grandma’s photo albums will be shown. These photos are memories from her point of view and represent her life.
Recordings of monologues of people with Dementia will also play alongside music that changes depending on the distance of the user from the projection.
When the user moves quickly, the music becomes a distraction and the pictures change erratically. This is to represent people’s fears and unwillingness to listen to and understand Dementia sufferers. It therefore represents people’s negative stereotypes of Dementia sufferers.
When the user moves slowly, they can focus on the timeline of pictures and what is being said in the monologues.
The user can then use the imagery of the nostalgic photos of my Grandma and the stories in the monologues to create their own unique emotional experience by using their past life experiences to make connections between the sound and visuals.
This focusses the user on remembering the person, where the person could be someone that they construct mentally, making the experience unique and emotionally engaging.
Music: Stateless - Junior (Instrumental Version)
Rocking a Canon 650 at the moment!
