Introduction to Wireframing Course (How To)

Wireframing is a useful part of the design process. Throughout a website or mobile app project, you will have a lot of ideas and the best way to sort through those ideas is to brainstorm. Wireframes are a visual artifact of brainstorming, and the goal is to make them with minimal effort, as to encourage ideation.

Whether you're a designer or not, wireframing is an important skill to have in your toolkit. It's beneficial for product managers, marketers, or anyone else with ideas for a website or mobile app. Wireframes are a valuable tool for visualizing user experiences, iterating on ideas, and sharing ideas with others.

What you'll learn

• Create hand drawn wireframes
• Create wireframes on a computer
• Iterate through ideas, visually
• Use wireframes to validate (or invalidate) assumptions and ideas

What Is Wireframing?

Welcome! In this workshop, you’ll learn how to visualize your ideas with wireframes.

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• What Are Wireframes?

  3:42

• Benefits of Wireframing

  4:16

• Types of Wireframes

  3:29

• How Wireframes Are Used

  4:22

• What is wireframing review

  5 questions

How to Make Wireframes on Paper

First, I'll give an overview of how to draw wireframes on paper, and then we'll put these concepts into practice as you watch me draw wireframes for a mobile ridesharing app.

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• Hand-drawn Wireframes

  4:19

• Demonstration of Wireframing on Paper

  11:25

• Tips and Tools

  2:47

• Sharing and Getting Feedback

  2:52

• The Pros and Cons of Wireframing on Paper

  1:54

• How to Make Wireframes on Paper review

  5 questions

How to Make Wireframes in Balsamiq

Balsamiq is a tool built specifically for wireframing. It contains UI elements and devices which can easily be inserted as building blocks for your wireframe.

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• Wireframing in Balsamiq

  8:42

• Demonstrating Wireframes in Balsamiq

  18:46

• Sharing and Getting Feedback in Balsamiq

  2:17

• Pros and Cons of Wireframing in Balsamiq

  1:35

• Review of How to Make Wireframes in Balsamiq

  5 questions

How to Make Wireframes in Adobe XD

Adobe XD is a user experience design app that supports vector design, wireframing, and interactive prototyping.

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• Making Wireframes in Adobe XD

  3:13

• Demonstrating Wireframes in Adobe XD

  11:19

• Sharing and Getting Feedback in Adobe XD

  6:49

• The Pros and Cons of Wireframing in Adobe XD

  1:40

• Review of How to Make Wireframes in Adobe XD

  5 questions