BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO WIREFRAMING
Category: Design | Posted date: 2021-06-06 20:23:47 | Posted by: Admin
In order to achieve a reliable and functional website, it first undergoes a serious and well-planned structure planning. Developers plan the website by the use of prototyping and wireframing. It’s a great strategy to pinpoint issues within a website before they are even deployed.
What is the process of wireframing a website? How does it help in the production of a website to give insights to the developers and even the clients? Well, first we need to analyze, what is a wireframe? Wireframe is basically the blueprint of a website. It contains all structural plans from basic to more complicated representations. You can easily assume how the website will look like, how the features will be executed and how the data will be shown. If you have already seen a blueprint of a house, this will appear easy for you to understand. But to fully dive deeper into the approaches of wireframing, it would be a plus if you’re experienced in designing or at least know how to make a layout of a website.
Treat this wireframe like a map, a practical map where future audiences can easily navigate on your website. It is proven to make the production process and communications easier. There are three (3) components that are widely used in wireframing:
- Information Architecture - this is the collected pieces of contents that will be used together with the visual components to enhance the user-experience of your future audiences.
- Navigation - the navigation elements from global and secondary that ensures the users can go around the website without any trouble.
- Layout Design - this focuses on the visual elements to improve the user-interface of the website.
Although, not everyone who has a website actually uses wireframing or at least knows the right tools to use. As necessary as it sounds in arranging and organizing elements and components of the website, the use of it still depends on who you ask. There are two most commonly known users of wireframing, first is the Developer, he/she is the one who is in charge of the deployment of the website and the overall development. They tend to use the website wireframe to plan the core functionality. While the second one, which is the UX designers use the wireframe to plan the navigation and construct user-experience mapping.
To sum it all up, wireframing is a very crucial stage in the early development of the website yet, not everyone undergoes this process. Some tend to ignore the fact that it can be very helpful and useful even after the website is deployed; that it is a waste of time and then just jump into creating the website without having the assurance on how it will all be executed.
