As time has passed, I've seen more and more justification piled on top of wireframes, leading to the belief that skipping them makes one a bad designer.
The justifications for wireframes are mostly smoke and mirrors, with nobody looking behind the curtain and asking why we're doing something performative and wasteful.
In the mid-2000s, tools available for design were inadequate, necessitating an intermediate step like wireframes to streamline the design process and manage changes.
Wireframes emerged from a time when design disciplines were nascent and tooling for our craft was lacking, making them seem absolutely critical to the process.
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