2. DESIGNERS GUIDE TO WIREFRAMING
AGENDA
▸ Wireframes.
▸ What are they?
▸ Why use them?
▸ Different Types
▸ Low-Fidelity
▸ High-Fidelity
▸ Wireframe Tips & Tricks
▸ Setting up Your Document
▸ Small Exercises
▸ Prompt
3. DESIGNERS GUIDE TO WIREFRAMING
WIREFRAME
“a visual guide that represents the skeletal framework of a
website.”
4. DESIGNERS GUIDE TO WIREFRAMING
WIREFRAMES: WHAT ARE THEY?
▸ Foundation
▸ Schematics/Blueprints of a Product
▸ 2-Dimensional Representation
▸ Communicational Tool
5. DESIGNERS GUIDE TO WIREFRAMING
WIREFRAMES: WHY USE THEM?
▸ Low Cost & Easy to Create
▸ Tells a Story
▸ Gets Everyone On The Same Page
▸ Prototyping for Usability Tests
▸ Easy to Change
▸ Helps Narrow Scope
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WIREFRAMES
▸ What They Help Represent
▸ Page Layout
▸ How will the elements be stitched together?
▸ Functionality
▸ Deciding how will the interface work?
▸ Content
▸ What will be displayed
▸ Behavior
▸ How someone will interact with the site.
▸ Informational Importance
▸ How is the information organized and displayed
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BOXES
▸ The BOX
▸ Building Block of Any Wireframe is
The Box
▸ Used to represent a portion of
content. Example. Blog Posts, Ads,
Navigation
12. DESIGNERS GUIDE TO WIREFRAMING
WIREFRAME TIPS & TRICKS
▸ Why Try to Reinvent The Wheel? We want you to move
quickly.
▸ Stencil Libraries
▸ Pattern Libraries
▸ Use a Grid
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STARTING A WIREFRAME
▸ Biggest to Smallest
▸ Start with the largest part
of the interface
▸ Outline
▸ header, footer, navigation
▸ content
▸ annotations
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FREE FORM PROMPT
▸ Wireframe a Site for Dog Adoptions
▸ Image of the Dog
▸ Name of the Dog
▸ Age of the Dog
▸ Description
▸ Ability to Adopt