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Storyframes before wireframes: starting designs in the text editor →
Just the other day I was talking to an experience designer in my team about this simple technique that I have used for years and never really thought about as a proper “technique” — maybe just intuition of someone who has designed more pages than they can remember.
Before jumping into wireframing (and spending time moving gray boxes and blocks of text around on the screen), or even sketching things on paper with the level of polish I would like people to see in my work, at some point I have decided to start my design process with what I later named as storyframes: a hybrid document between a script/story and a wireframe.