May 5, 2023, 3:27 AM@chriscoyier Even when our designers are working in higher fidelity, they've started converting mockups to grayscale with handwritten fonts before they'll show a client. It helped a lot.
We found that also changed feedback from being about the aesthetics to being about the interface.
@mia @chriscoyier I worked with a packaging designer once who would do all of his ideation in illustrator/photoshop but before presenting ideas to clients would redraw them by hand with pencil and paper. Then they were “just sketches”.
@mia @chriscoyier i believe this is what makes Balsamiq still a great tool. The raw/ primitive look of mockups lets viewers truly focus on content and project goals, and not get distracted or misled by other visual elements.
@airfive @mia @chriscoyier I've used both Balsamiq and Moqups for many projects! Even if not showing them to anyone else, it's really helped me figure out what I'm trying to accomplish. As a CSS dev, I can often get caught up and my git commits then say stuff like "change colors", "update colors", "fix typography (again)"... and there's still no content structure or page layout 🙃
@mia @chriscoyier @dahukanna I did this for years when I was doing IxD … absolutely made a huge difference