If you haven’t already read it, you really should. Andres Zapata has published an excellent article over at boxesandarrows entitled The Guided Wireframe Narrative for Rich Internet Applications. A brief taste:
The key to using a low-context medium (wireframes) to illustrate
high-context information (rich internet applications) is to narrate the
information in layers or in dimensions. In short, because we couldn’t
build a prototype (due to time and budget constraints), we built a
story. But because it wasn’t a linear application, multiple stories
needed to be constructed. We call these stories the Guided Wireframe Narrative.Our story or narrative focused on four main dimensions:
- Hierarchy
- Screen real estate
- Design conventions
- Interaction patterns
We call these multiple stories microflows. Lots of food for thought here. Go and read it now.
