I’m a User Experience Architect and obviously create wireframes all day long. However I use them to collaborate with my designers and developers. After initial brainstorming sessions I quickly create wireframes, using Axure, to mockup ideas.

I work closely my designers because obviously they understand layout and design far better than I do and I’ll incorporate their ideas into the wireframes. I’ll add interactivity to the wireframes so that we can discuss our solution with dev so we understand any technical constraints that we need to consider.

After this we’ll present the solution to the client and get their feedback. I’ve found this to be highly effective and used it on many website designs, web applications and mobile apps.

Finally, the only other thing I would say is… wow using photoshop to create wireframes is tedious and takes forever. I’m fairly proficient in photoshop and I would never use it to create wireframes takes too long and you can’t iterate fast enough.

Comparing to photoshop or html, this is far easier and will consume less time. Benefits..? They are greater of course.

by the way, nice commenting system you have!

Cheers mate.

I have recently written an article that readers here might enjoy – it’s about the use of static mockups to simulate dynamic interfaces in advance of HTML5 “Fluid” UIs becoming more widely used:

http://fluidui.com/2011/03/18/is-static-enough/

Cheers,
Ian