Visual guide

When applied to building a website or similar work product, a Visual Guide can be an intermediate step toward the end goal of a complete website. By creating a visual guide along the way, the designer or developer can get buy in from the other people involved in the website such as the customer, their manager and other members of the team.

A visual guide could be a wireframe, creative composition or information architecture. A device that will enable collaboration will save time decreasing the chance of work having to be completely redone. A manager could create a visual guide for the team to complete the build out.

Paper prototype could be an excellent way to develop Visual Guides Some links about this topic are:

What is Paper Prototyping www.paperprototyping.com/what.html

Paper Prototyping: Get User Data *Before* Coding (Jakob Nielsen's ... www.useit.com/alertbox/20030414.html

Five Paper Prototyping Tips www.uie.com/articles/prototyping_tips