How to Make a Wireframe for an App: A Step-By-Step Guide

Wireframing is part of the Product Development Lifecycle which helps a development team present their vision to clients and decide on the final tech and design solutions. You need to design wireframes regardless of what business area and digital project scale you are working on.

Unlike creating a sketch and or app prototype (mockup), product wireframing is about discovering potential design and engineering solutions, as well as checking to see if clients and development agencies envision the future product in the same way.

For a typical design process, wireframing is the middle stage between sketching and prototyping, where sketching is about the general concept, wireframing is about defining your app components, and prototyping reflects style and interaction logic. Coding comes right after prototyping.

What Does a Wireframe for Mobile Apps Show?

A mobile app wireframe guides the whole app designing process. You can also call a wireframe a schematic version of the future product, an app skeletal framework, as well as an app blueprint.