Reading your post made me think of a really cool iPad app. One app that grabs the .png or .psd which has layers and grouped elements, and you can just tap hold and drag elements to see how the UI looks and feels in various instances.

And I think it would be better than plain paper and you know, eco friendly.

On the other hand, I’ve never used printed designs, because they look to awful printed from a 72 DPI resolution.

Jeff – I love the phrase! Joel Oliveira actually coined it in a tweet a few weeks ago : http://twitter.com/jayroh/statuses/11718884410

I also tend to do this on wireframes if I know the designs won’t be coming down the line in a timely manner (tends to be the case a lot lately), as the wires should (hopefully) reflect the overall layout & information hierarchy of the site.

-Rob

Instead of using the design I had baking in the oven that contained everything but the kitchen sink (they don’t fit into ovens) … I said “F it” and went completely bare. No css. No nothing. Just markup and content.

Over the last few months it’s evolved slowly but surely into something I’m less ashamed of, with a bent on the actual content instead of all the small stuff that I obsessed over for months on end.

It’s super liberating. Don’t sweat the small shit and just get right into the important part.

By the way – your site looks great.