Wireframing with Figma
Wireframing is a crucial step in app design, helping you to layout and organize content before diving into detailed visuals. With Figma’s intuitive tools, you can quickly create wireframes that set a strong foundation for your app's user interface, ensuring a smooth and efficient design process.
What is Wireframe?
A wireframe is a basic visual guide used in the early stages of the design process to layout the structure and functionality of a webpage or application. It serves as a blueprint that outlines the placement of elements like headers, buttons, images, and text, without focusing on the finer details like color, font style, or imagery. Wireframes are usually simple, often drawn with basic shapes and lines, and are primarily used to establish the layout and interaction flow.
Differences Between Wireframe, Mockup, and Prototype:
- Wireframe:
- Purpose: Establishes the basic structure and layout of a design.
- Detail Level: Low; focuses on layout, content hierarchy, and functionality.
- Visual Style: Simple, often grayscale, with placeholder elements.
- Interactivity: Typically static, without any interactive features.
- Mockup:
- Purpose: Provides a more detailed and polished version of the wireframe, showing what the final design will look like.
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