Wonderful World of Wireframing

I’ve been taking a break from the usual Flex development world and getting familiarize myself with the wireframing. I am definitely not an expert in this field but as a RIA developer, I thought it was important to learn and try it out to understand more about it when I could. My first challenge came from the true understanding of what wireframes are. Is it a precursor to a design? Nothing but the organization of contents? I saw many resources out there explaining what it is, but this is my favorite so far.

A wireframe diagram lets everybody focus on what’s important at this (Information Design) step: clearly understanding what goes on each page, where it goes, and why it goes there, so you can achieve the best overall balance and structure for each page. – The Importance Of Wireframes In Web Design And 9 Tools To Create Wireframes

I saw many projects flying to visual design stage directly from concept creation, and those usually go through many renditions and even more frustrations and valuable designers’ time. For me, the wireframes simply was time-saver, but now I understand it’s must more than that–something like being a strong foundation for RIA projects.