Creating Wireframes: A Sample Process

What do you need to get started on your first wireframe? You need to start by having as much information as possible in regards to your project. Hopefully, you will have access to information-packed artifacts such as

• Business requirements

• Design briefs, or creative briefs, or other named briefs that are relevant. For more information on design briefs, see Communicating Design by Dan Brown (New Riders, 2010)

• Stakeholder interviews

• Research performed

• Website analytics

• Personas that are rich with information about your users

• Site map

• User/Task flows or paths

• Content strategy documentation

• Statement of work

• ...anything else that you can find that is related to the project

Consume all of this. Voraciously. Get familiar with all the information that is available to you—hopefully you will have been involved throughout the project to this point and you will not have to engage in an exercise of cramming information into your brain.