Wireframing Goals
Why do experts go through the wireframing stage in web or app designing? That’s because it helps them in presenting their ideas to stockholders and also makes the next steps in their projects much easier to accomplish. Below are specific goals you can achieve with wireframing.
Make Abstract Ideas Visual
Stakeholders are able to see the project visually with wireframes. Creating a wireframe is when you can concretize and make ideas more real and tangible (without the distractions that are found in a mockup).
If you only have a sitemap to present and not wireframes, your audience might think that your ideas are too abstract for them to comprehend.
For example, in math, just stating an equation to students may not be enough to impart knowledge. Pick a problem or two to solve using that equation. This will help concretize the concept. The same goes for wireframing.
Decide Which Features To Include
Without wireframes, you will find it difficult to communicate with the client about the features you need and/or want to include in the website. With wireframes to help you out, it will be easier to explain to them concepts such as Google map integration, product filtering, and light boxes. Because these tools are visual by nature, they will also help your client have a better sense of where you intend to place these features and how they can be useful for target users.
Maximize The Website’s Usability
Wireframing is a lot of help when you want to maximize your user’s experience. This is because this step will allow you to think from the point of view of a user.
You can focus on various elements such as ease of use, feature placement, navigation, linking and naming of links, and conversion paths. Here, you can also see things that can be improved in terms of site architecture and functions of features.
With wireframes, you can discuss with your audience any ideas or suggestions for modification, improvement, or revisions to maximize and enhance usability.
Assess Ease of Updates
Any entrepreneur looks forward to bright prospects, and any opportunity for growth must be accommodated by the website. Here’s the first time you can discuss that with your client.
Ask questions about their plans. Know the products and services they intend to offer. Check for advertising content, promos, and discounts that may be offered in the future.
You want the website to accommodate all of these changes without effecting major changes in usability, architecture, navigational structure and so on.
Separate Parts
Wireframing lets you treat parts separately. In other words, it allows the design process to be approached iteratively. Instead of treating functionality, layout, and branding together in one step, these items are dealt with one at a time.
The advantage also benefits other team members. They will not be hard-pressed to look at the overall scheme that’s quite hard to assess and analyze. They can just provide feedback as you go along.
For project and fund managers, this also means that money is not wasted. It is quite costly to implement a revamp at the mockup stage. Fortunately, wireframe revisions do not cause major dents in the budget.
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