When applied to building block 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.
Famous quotes containing the words visual and/or guide:
“Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.”
—Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980)
“John Eliot came to preach to the Podunks in 1657, translated the Bible into their language, but made little progress in aboriginal soul-saving. The Indians answered his pleas with: ‘No, you have taken away our lands, and now you wish to make us a race of slaves.’”
—Administration for the State of Con, U.S. public relief program. Connecticut: A Guide to Its Roads, Lore, and People (The WPA Guide to Connecticut)