UX design
I stopped doing wireframes, this is what happened next
This story is about the time when we had piled up deadlines, not enough time, a screaming client, and a team that wanted designs delivered faster.
There have been contradicting opinions about wireframes, on the internet. While many people swear by them, many think it’s a waste of time instead.
I was adamant about following all processes and going by the rule book, until the day that I had the freedom to do things the way I wanted, and the way maximum productivity could be generated.
And that was the time I experimented a lot with what I knew, and what I wanted to know. I learnt new things, changed the way I worked, and made a phenomenal change in the process I so rigidly followed — I stopped doing wireframes. Completely.
It was the time I was working with Zen3Tech (back in 2019) and I had a lot of autonomy on my designs and the processes I followed. I was working on products that had to go to development, QA and then straight to the users — the users who were sitting in a secured ODC (off-shore development centre for a UK based client), in the same building. The designed and developed products were to be used internally by those users…
