Best Wireframing Tools to Architect Your Next Digital Project

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• Best Wireframing Tools to Architect Your Next
  Digital Project

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Digital Projects are taken up for materializing
business objectives or for bringing in shaping
certain creative ideas. The project involves
making proper web page layouts by arranging the
content of the website that may include elements
of the interface, the navigational systems and
the manner in which they work together.
Wireframing tools are applied for the better
accomplishment of a particular purpose. Wireframe
is also known as Page Schematic or Screen
Blueprint. It is a visual guide for drawing out a
skeleton of the website through a framework.
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What is Wireframing
Wireframe is a 3D skeletal model that represents
only lines and vertices. It does not involve
style, color or graphic. It indicates the
allocation of space, content prioritization and
available functionalities. It transforms the
intangible concepts or ideas into a desired
tangible end product. The concept underlying the
structure is known as information architecture.
For initiating architecture of digital projects,
flow charts, site maps and screen designs are
used. Such models are also used for making
prototypes of mobile apps.
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Wireframing Tools
Wireframing is the first step towards the
development of apps. Through this, the
functionalities of an app could be well
visualized so that clarification if required
could be made. For architecting a mobile app or
developing a website, of the many tools
available, the following can be best utilized, by
making use of a scale better known as KISS, the
acronym of Keeping It Simple, Stupid.
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Balsamiq is one of the most popular used tools
for wireframing and mock up building. It is loved
by one and all for its high focus on usability.
Its scores an almost 10.
Balsamiq
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Infragistics is clean and simple with a wide
range of functionalities. However, it needs
certain learning curve initially. It has a KISS
scale of 9/10.
Infragistics
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Proto.io is suitable for larger apps needing more
functionality and has a KISS scale of 8/10.
Proto.io
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JustInMind is suitable for advanced prototypes
and involves more difficulty when compared to
Infragistics.
JustInMind
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Ki4 Fluid can be used for making a simple
wireframe more quickly and has a KISS level of
7/10.
Ki4 Fluid
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Uses of Wireframes
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Developers
Developers make use of these models for getting
more clear and tangible aspects about the
functionalities of the website.
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Designers
Designers make use of it for pushing the process
of UI or User Interface.
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Business Analysts
Business Analysts make use of it for visually
supporting the rules of the business and
interaction requirement for a screen.
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Business Stakeholders
Business Stakeholders make use of it for ensuring
that the objectives and requirements are properly
met with.
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Work of Wireframing
Since wireframe connects the information
architecture to the visual design, there may be
overlapping of roles of professionals that in
turn may lead to conflict and controversies.
Therefore, it calls for collaborative efforts. It
actually indicates only a skeletal structure and
is difficult for the actual screen layouts to be
depicted. Moreover, since it is only a static
representation, it becomes difficult for
displaying the interactive details, effectively.
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Depending upon the levels of details, wireframes
could be categorized as Low Fidelity or High
Fidelity. The former uses rectangles and
labeling, has less detail but is quick to
produce. The latter incorporates a higher level
of details, resembles more closely to the design
of the real page and takes longer time to create.
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