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I'm with the OP on this one—wireframing on the computer is unreasonably slow. It's four to five times faster to draw something out on paper.

Seriously, try it. Come up with a design in your head. Try drawing it on paper. Then put the paper away, and try drawing it in Mockingbird or HotGloo. It will take significantly longer. And worse, it feels like wasted time, because you know you could do it much faster.

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Then draw your wireframes on paper... I do most initial design wireframes in a notebook anyway--it's faster, easy to make changes and serves the same purpose. I believe they call this "paper prototyping" and I'll take that over wireframing apps any day.

Maybe there is a mockup tool which reasonably reads your drawings into a mockup tool so you can just continue from there once you have your paper drawing done? I think I saw one on HN a while ago, didn't try it though.

You may be thinking of POP for iOS - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pop-prototyping-on-paper/id5...

That's only true for the very first boxes and coming up with ides. when you're maybe making 5 different variations of roughly the same thing, a wire-framing tool allows you to just copy and paste what you did around and tweak everything.

I kind of get the impression that the author hasn't done much wireframing

So is it possible that a technical solution isn't really needed for a pen-n-paper "problem"?

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