Digital tips & tricks

How pencil wireframes have a high return on investment and how to tap into its ROI

Embrace this artistic power tool and start creating ideas

Eva Schicker
5 min readNov 14, 2022

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These days, we’re unhealthily focused on being digital zombies. Everything we produce is through a device. We’re creating while being device-dependent.

If we actually pause to think about what that means, we realize that in a creative ideation phase, or during initial concepting, our device-centric approach can only take us that far.

That’s why tapping into pencil wire-framing brings us a high ROI:

Minimal time and resources invested = high rate of options generated.

All you need are basic tools for drawing pencil wireframes

The only items needed are pencil, eraser, and pencil sharpener. And a piece of paper or a surface to draw on.

The tools for pencil sketching: A pencil, eraser, and sharpener.
The tools for pencil sketching: A pencil, eraser, and sharpener.

A pencil sketch can be drawn on almost any surface. Paper, napkins, cardboard, cloth. If you use a white or black board, then use erasable markers or chalk.

The speed of pencil wireframe is highly efficient. Sketch for 60 or seconds per frame and you’re done…

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Eva Schicker

Hello. I write about UX, UI, AI, animation, tech, fiction & art through the eyes of a designer & painter. I live in NYC. Book author, UX Grad GA NYC.