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Over at the Frog Design blog Ian Curry digs into the Visual Designer / Information Architect relationship - specifically how to tweak wireframes to make the relationship less contentious via “alternative documentation systems”.

While as Ian suggests, discussing the designer/IA relationship is the yettie form of navel-gazing. Wireframes are their most useful when they tell a story. In my experience, this story is told to the clients, project managers, and development team. Chances are, designers already know the story.

While it took me a while to wrap my head around, I’m digging the flexibility afforded in the Design Comic Templates developed at Sun. Telling stories through people and words…rather than pages and diagrams can describe interaction with a system faster than wireframing out even the core pages. Plus, it makes this work feel less like documentation. We could use more of that.