Creating Wireframes

I’ve always had a special place in my heart for creating things. Just ask my husband about my craft “corner” that’s really sprawled across our whole house.

One really cool part of creating things, is the idea phase. Last fall, while still working in HR, I was building our benefits enrollment training program. I had this awesome idea to create a game where we would take employees through the Game Of Life to select their benefits for the following year.

I started to draw my ideas out on the whiteboard.

Things just took off from there and out came a very simple game to make the benefits enrollment process a bit more interesting.

What does that have to do with wire framing? Well that’s exactly what I did.

I quickly sketched out boxes and labels and defined the path our users would take while going through the game.

Here’s what it looked like: