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What are wireframes?

Wireframes are the form of prototyping most commonly associated with UX design.

Here’s Wikipedia’s definition:

“A website wireframe, also known as a page schematic or screen blueprint, is a visual guide that represents the skeletal framework of a website.”

In fact, Jesse James Garrett used the very term ‘skeleton’ at that phase of a project.

The design skeleton

Wireframes are the most common form of prototypes associated with UX design

  • They allow decisions on layout or content to be taken before visual design or branding has been applied.
  • They can facilitate discussion about those issues.
  • They allow a project team to focus on the important issues of hierarchy and prioritization before visual design comes into play.
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Rick Monro

Rick Monro is UX Director at Fathom. He has extensive experience in user research, interaction design, user-centered design, and design strategy with private and public sector organisations throughout the UK and Ireland.

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The UX Design module will cover in depth the differences between interactive and presentational communication, illustrating how the priority of the marketer shifts from getting attention in a presentational environment, to giving attention in an interactive environment. You will understand how a user-focused approach to design impacts content planning, information architecture, customer-journey planning, prototyping, testing and validation, progressive-disclosure and other powerful approaches to the display and interactivity of content.