Sketch your wireframes using pencil and paper.Ī paper wireframe of our app’s Book a Hotel screen.Ĭreate digital wireframes using professional image-editing software such as Adobe Photoshop, or a dedicated wireframing program such as Pidoco, Axure, InDesign, Sketch, Omnigraffle, or Balsamiq Mockups.Ī wireframe of the Homescreen, created using Balsamiq.īut why restrict yourself to one tool, when you can reap the benefits of both? Paper and digital wireframes each have their own unique set of strengths and weaknesses.So, I’ve sung the praises of wireframing long enough! How do you go about creating a wireframe? It’s much easier to put a big cross through a wireframe, turn the page in your notebook and start again than it is to completely rewrite code you already spent hours working on. They can also help you identify any flaws with your initial screen designs, before you invest too much time into perfecting these designs. Wireframes are pretty deceptive-they may look like quick, rough-and-ready sketches, but they’re actually a powerful tool for exploring, defining and refining your app’s user interface. For now, it’s enough to know that you’re going to place a menu on Screen A you don’t need to worry about what colour this menu is going to be, or how you’re going to style the menu's text.įor more information on wireframing, check out the following resources: The purpose of wireframing is to outline a screen’s structure-it’s not about the finer details of how a screen looks, so try not to get sucked into the specifics of graphic design. Wireframing is where you sketch out all the major UI components you want to place on a particular screen. Let’s dive right in and start creating some wireframes! In part two we’re going to get up close and personal by wireframing and prototyping the individual screens that'll make up our app.īy the end of this tutorial you’ll have created a digital prototype that you can install and test on your own Android smartphone or tablet. We covered a lot of ground in part one, but up until now all our planning has been a bit high-level and abstract. Finally, we created a screen list and a map showing exactly how all these screens will fit together. Using the example of a travel app that'll help users plan and book a fun-filled summer adventure with all their friends, we identified our target audience by creating a user persona (remember our friend Sasha?) and then created a list of features that would be perfect for Version 1.0 of our app (and perfect for Sasha). In part one of this two-part series, I showed you how to take an initial idea for an Android app, and develop it into a detailed plan-right down to mapping out the individual screens that'll make up your finished app.
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