Wireframes
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- monkeyshine0
Ukit, I totally agree. I think the problem is that you can't really nail down a layout without thinking about the visual end of things. It's much easier to be the designer who is fleshing out the wire frame (or at least intimately involved with the wire frame build).
I have issues with wire frames in general. In my experience, the wire frames go to the client for approval before design. When the IA (who likely has no design experience - and you can only hope they realize this) puts in visual elements like tabs or color the client can get fixed on that and think it's designed. Connected to this, sometimes a client will see a wire frame and not really understand what it is they are looking at or how they need to access it.
If wire frames were only used internally to guide the UI I'd be less concerned. I realize this isn't a perfect solution. In my eyes, a wire frame is meant to convey hierarchy and flow of content, not layout.