Kevin Silver — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:53:13 GMT

I first read this article in 2002. I loved it. I have used page descriptions on a few projects around the time the article was published, but I found myself creating regular wireframes for most of my projects (mostly web app work)—I was also doing most of the visual design or had a graphic designer readily availble to brainstorm. It wasn’t until recently when I started to work with remote graphic designers that I thought about using page descriptions again. So I used page descriptions for the redesign of my employer’s website to see how they would work for content rich site.

The graphic designer we used loved them (not in house), but he did something interesting and suprising: his first deliverable back to us was regular wireframes that dictated layout. I was expecting him to create full-fledged comps. His rational for creating the wireframes was that he wanted us to concentrate on the layout of the items on the page and not the final graphical treatment. It was a great process and I wrote about it in greater detail and included a shot of one of the page descriptions. I wonder if anyone else has ever had a graphic designer return them a wireframe?

Boxes and Arrows: Comments by Kevin Silver