Boxes and Arrows: Comments by Christopher Detzi

Christopher Detzi — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:11:59 GMT

Thanks for all of the great commentary! I’ve really enjoyed and appreciate the insights you’ve shared. To David and Dorian’s point, the web *is* content and yet our approach to design and development tends to marginalize that very thing. The good news is that many in our profession seem to be recognizing this and (hopefully) we’ll start seeing some calibration of our methods and techniques as a result. Great stuff.

Christopher Detzi — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:06:32 GMT

Jason- I couldn’t agree more. As a general rule, content and visuals should be iterated in tandem but all too often that just doesn’t happen. Good to hear that you’ve worked with some teams that do recognize and account for this during the process.

Christopher Detzi — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:16:36 GMT

Evan- I think *all* designers “consider the scope of content to come” but from my experience only some take an active role in shaping and defining that content so that the end product -inclusive of styles, graphics, interactions, and copy- is cohesive in purpose and effectively achieves the overall design objectives.

Christopher Detzi — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:44:42 GMT

Nathan- Great story. Thanks for sharing. Re: usability testing, I too have seen seemingly great designs fail simply because of poorly constructed content. Great to hear about the successes you had engaging with copy/content early and often.

chris

Christopher Detzi — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 05:54:37 GMT

Great article and thanks for sharing, Aaron. I’ve tried ‘smudging’ hard lines (among other things) to roughen my wireframes up but it’s been painfully inefficient. You’ve inspired me to create a set of ‘sketchy’ shapes and UI elements for EightShapes Unify. Good stuff!