Comment by skydhash
6 days ago
> Generate a few alternatives, have them pick, is a tried and true method in design. It was way too expensive when coding was manual, so often you need multiple rounds of meetings and emails to align.
Why do you need coding for those. You can doodle on a whiteboard for a lot of those discussions. I use Balsamiq[0] and I can produce a wireframe for a whole screen in minutes. Even faster than prompting.
> If you don't think coding was the bottleneck, you're not thinking creatively about what's only now possible.
If you think coding was a bottleneck, that means you spent too much time doing when you should have been thinking.
I've been using Balsamiq since back in 2012 (perhaps earlier, can't find an earlier reference in email), when it was all in Flash/Flex (IIRC).
For UX, approach like that can often work. For non-UI stuff, more complex processes and exploration (because nobody is actually sure what's going to work best), the handwaving is just deluding everyone.
I've been on enough demos where customers pretended they understood the concepts only to be surprised later, or going back and forth for months on what they actually need, to know that:
> If you think coding was a bottleneck, that means you spent too much time doing when you should have been thinking
is cute, but naive.