Wireframes aren't dead, but they're not always necessary. Mature teams with solid design systems can skip them. They matter when you need alignment on concepts or your early prototypes are too detailed. The catch: wireframe kits need constant maintenance.
Hot take, hot take! Are wireframes still necessary? You know, if you would ask me this a year ago, I would have said no. Maybe not a year ago, maybe 2 years ago, but I would have said wireframes are not necessary at all. I would have said you should just skip to, to high fidelity if you have a well-defined, a well-defined design system. But I have found myself in situations where the wireframe was necessary, and a lot of this time it depended, it depends on how your team works with brand and if your team is aligning on, uh, aligning on the concept. If you're, if you're really struggling to figure out what the concepts for your designs are going to be because they're overly prototyped or too high fidelity, I think there's use for wireframes. But if your team is, you know, good in its process and mature, I do think you can just utilize high fidelity, uh, components and like for one design system and design system components, and then work higher fidelity, start utilizing real content and things like that, uh, as you progress. But it depends on the maturity of your team. Now I, uh, just a caveat, I have seen, uh, like when you do have a, a wireframe kit, right? That's another thing to maintain and upkeep. So there is work involved with having with utilizing wireframes. I think the best drawings, high fidelity. Align on drawings and then move to high fidelity if you're completely aligned and you have good enough drawings.
I started my career doing lots of graphic design and having to create and edit images.
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