What can I do with Wireframes? Part II

But sketching and refining ideas is not the only thing wireframes are good for! With a wireframe you can communicate your ideas and specifications to other stake holders in the project team. And as we all know, programmers speak a completely different language than designers, with a wireframe both parties communicate in a universal language: with animated pictures! The perfect thing about communicating on the basis of a wireframe is that your programmer can really see and experience what you want, ask the right questions and help finding solutions where certain (may be technical) requirements not have been considered (making changes in the concept necessary – lucky me who created a wireframe instead of spending long hours on designing all detailed pages first).

Wireframes and User Testing

When you can use a wireframe to communicate your ideas, improving collaboration with other parties, it is also possible to use wireframes for user testing. Where certain click paths, functionality and select options had to be explained in words when you have just a paper prototype of your website, new digital and clickable wireframes give you and your test users the whole experience. Just click through your wireframe like a real website and see whether the concepts work with real users. And everything in your concept that turns out to be problematic, can easily be changed – since it’s just a wireframe!