Wireframing and tools to gather feedback

Wireframing is a technique to plan out the high-level screen hierarchy for your application and display the forms that would be present in your app by providing some mode of navigation, to allow users to effectively traverse your app flow. Some apps have wireframes expressed in a tree structure, a graph, or a flowchart.

The methods of wireframing could vary based on the type and magnitude of the app, but the standard patterns of wireframing remain the same. Also, there are varieties of tools that could be used across different types of apps and different kinds of information that represent the types of things users interact with in your app. Software engineers and data architects often use entity-relationship diagrams (ERDs) to describe an application's information model. We will understand and learn the various techniques of wireframing in detail in this chapter.