http://www.nathancurtis.com/2009/01/09/wireframes-on-the-left-annotations-on-the-right/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:25:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 http://www.nathancurtis.com/2009/01/09/wireframes-on-the-left-annotations-on-the-right/#comment-2982 Michael Marotta Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:28:44 +0000 http://www.nathancurtis.com/2009/01/09/wireframes-on-the-left-annotations-on-the-right/#comment-2982 Hey Nathan, I was thinking about this a while ago and actually came to the opposite conclusion, wireframe on right, spec on left. The one factor that, to me, outweighed most other points is efficient use of page space. In a typical wireframe deck, I have plenty of pages or small modules that have a bit more than half a page of spec. Additionally, on many of these pages, the actual wireframed page doesn't take up the full height of the page leaving a whole bunch of white space under it. When the wireframe is on the right, you can then flow your spec into the white space under the wireframe. I've found this greatly reduces the number times I have to add whole pages with just a few sentences of spec. I think having less extra pages, especially cases where spec needs to be broken up across pages unecessarily, makes it a bit harder for the people using the wireframes, and those big empty pages with the spillover spec aren't very pretty, either. Hey Nathan, I was thinking about this a while ago and actually came to the opposite conclusion, wireframe on right, spec on left.
The one factor that, to me, outweighed most other points is efficient use of page space. In a typical wireframe deck, I have plenty of pages or small modules that have a bit more than half a page of spec. Additionally, on many of these pages, the actual wireframed page doesn’t take up the full height of the page leaving a whole bunch of white space under it. When the wireframe is on the right, you can then flow your spec into the white space under the wireframe. I’ve found this greatly reduces the number times I have to add whole pages with just a few sentences of spec. I think having less extra pages, especially cases where spec needs to be broken up across pages unecessarily, makes it a bit harder for the people using the wireframes, and those big empty pages with the spillover spec aren’t very pretty, either.

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