Designed for Use, 2nd Edition

Tools

Sketching and prototyping are popular activities in the software development community—enough to have given rise to a whole ecosystem of products. The sole raison d’être for these applications and services is to help you sketch or prototype your product.

There are many good reasons for using such products. One of the main ones is that they make it easy to collaborate on designs even when designers live far away from each other.

Terminology

In this book, I use the following terms:

Sketch	Any representation of a user interface as a drawing.
Wireframe	A static representation of a user interface where the individual elements are at least roughly where they are supposed to go, at their supposed sizes, but displayed in a highly stylized form.