COO at @HotGloo - a professional wireframe app. Curator of Wireframe Wednesday, UX Advocate, Writer and Speaker.
Besides HotGloo, I write for a couple of magazines and talk about business principles for web applications and user experience topics.
Currently splitting my time between Vienna and Hamburg. On a non web related topic I am obsessed with music and even more obsessed with cycling.
Wolf Becvar is COO at HotGloo, UX consultant, writer and occasional speaker.
After receiving a university degree in sociology and product/innovation management, which took him from Vienna to New York and Tokyo, Wolf joined HotGloo, a german startup engineering an online wireframe application.
Since 2009 Wolf is COO at HotGloo, writes web related articles and talks about business principles for web applications and user experience topics.
Public speaker at conferences on UX, strategy and start-up topics.
Contributing articles about business principles for web applications and user experience topics.
uxsprout: I’ve been asked and have not yet given a satisfactory answer to the question, “what is...
“Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s...
Wireframing is the first step in the web design process. It is also the least known and talked...
Wireframes have been a crucial part of just about every project I’ve worked on. I’ve spent countless...
“Wireframes tend to lie more often than Photoshop does.” - Luke Wroblewski
It’s hard to say that a wireframe is wrong. There’s no right way to do wireframes, so why should...
UI is the saddle, the stirrups, and the reigns. UX is the feeling you get being able to ride the...
Thought I might share this hillarious video on the difference between UX and UI. Enjoy! PS: No...
Brad’s talk presented at the Future of Web Design on the importance of wireframes in the...
Eilsabeth’s talk presented at the Future of Web Design NYC which explains that UX is not...
If you are ever in the situation to explain wireframes to clients with the blueprint metaphor use Derek’s example. Credits: Derek Clark
Have you ever wondered how is it that most Web Designers have such an organized way of thinking?...
Once all the planning for a site is done and the initial thoughts have been hashed out, we must...
Some of my best ideas were conceived and communicated using a sharpie and a bar napkin....
Have you ever had an idea for a website or application? It’s easy to come up with the idea, but the...
Our friend Jakub Linowski, UX designer and editor of Wireframes Magazine introduces us to his way...
I get to work with a lot of wireframes – not just the ones I’ve designed myself but ones that other...
Over the past several years I’ve either been working in, or working directly with larger UX teams in...
Designing your process
Design is an organic process and thus different designers approach wireframing and its translation to visuals or code in different ways. You have to find the process that brings out your own strengths and you are most comfortable with.
Excerpt on different design processes from Winnie Lim’s article: A Beginners Guide to Wireframing over at Webdesign Tuts+.