People have been sketching user interfaces since the birth of the web (possibly even before) but the sketches usually stay locked away in old notebooks and discarded bar napkins. Many of the websites we use started out as scrawlings, and with people like Jakob Nielsen and Bill Buxton spreading the gospel of faster, cheaper paper prototypes.
“Next year’s Twitter” may already exist on paper.
We don’t usually get to see this handmade stage of the web, but some folks have been thoughtful enough to upload photos of their UI sketches, and I find them fascinating.
Jack Dorsey’s original sketch for Twitter
Dan Catt’s concept sketch for Flickr Places
Profile page idea for Vimeo by Sockyung ‘Sox’ Hong
Paper Version Of The Web
July 3, 2008 by Rich | 2 Comments
In Creativity, Internet, Planning
Angela on July 4th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
It is definitely fun getting a chance to take a look at these rough drafts. Goes to show doodling can definitely help form an idea.
water on November 28th, 2008 at 12:04 am
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