Christina Wodtke has a nice article that relates two crafts: writing and design. She draws parallels from the list of reminders in the E.B. White writing handbook The Elements of Style to user interface design practices.

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Stephen Turbek's article in Boxes and Arrows talks about creating "real wireframes" for user tests. Looking at Turbek's examples a "real wireframe" is a medium-fidelity mockup, created by plugging elements of a site's branding (i.e. header, footer, buttons) into the wireframe.

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