Comment by senko
6 days ago
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.
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