Priority Guides

[jducoeur]

Fascinating article here about Priority Guides, a UX design tool that they are presenting as an alternative to wireframes. The core notion is to focus on the content of a page, using a discipline that specifically discourages you from worrying about the visual layout in this stage.

Very neat food for thought, especially for Querki. It would probably be easy enough to build a lightweight Priority Guide Designer in Querki, to use for future design of the system, and I suspect it would help prod things in more usable directions. Indeed, if it works I might make it into an app/mixin for others to use...

Comments

[drwex]

I'm underwhelmed by priority guides, as I was when they first appeared five or so years ago. They're basically wireframes for mobile with some rigor rules applied. Unfortunately, the proponents play fast and loose, claiming that you can't test wireframes (you can) and saying that you can "Ask users what they think about the information presented in the priority guides" when we know that asking people what they think is a terrible idea. Peoples' opinions about a thing are almost completely irrelevant - rather you want to measure task-centric things. The authors know that, but they're using loose language and it doesn't help their argument.