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It depends.

User interfaces often have a lot of business aspects as well as technical design aspects - that is why there is the word interface in UI. Since it is the role of the project owner to communicate business requirements to the team, and since often communication works best by examples, scetching an idea of the UI, or ideas to change the UI for a adding a new feature, by using some drawing tools can be valuable tool for the PO.

The PO just should not be expected to work out all the gory technical details, and he/she should not expect from the team to build his/her suggestions all literally. Ideally, for design of complex UI requirements, you have some UX experts and someone from the "user's" side in the same room. And for certain types of software, the PO here can take the role of a "representative user".

However, in a really agile team, the team should work out the form of communication which works best for the given product and/or environment. If letting the PO scetch the UI works for the team, fine. If that is not necessary or turns out to be less efficient than verbal descriptions, then use the latter.

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