looking back

08/06/07 Paste Interactive

Looking back on it… Reading this may have been a really relevant cornerstone of what later came to be Jumpchart.

Here’s an example: If a wireframe document is destined to stop and never directly become the actual design, don’t bother doing it. If the wireframe starts as a wireframe and then morphs into the actual design, go for it.

Documents that live separately from your application are worthless. They don’t get you anywhere. Everything you do should evolve into the real thing. If a document stops before it turns real, it’s dead.

It’s a quote from 37 Signals Getting Real book. If you haven’t read it yet, -drop whatever you’re doing…