5 Best Wireframe Tools For Websites & Mobile Apps In 2022

This will help you quickly compare and evaluate the best wireframe tools for Websites & Mobile Apps.

Before you have settled on a logo, sitemap, fleshed-out content or branded font, you are going to need to design a wireframe. Having a wireframe is essential to mapping out what your UX will be like for your end user.

Where will the UX essentials be positioned on the screen and in relation to one another? What will the user see first and how will the design carry their eyes across the page? Where will they expect to see common elements like help/contact buttons or an options menu? These are the kinds of questions you will answer for yourself while building a wireframe mockup for your product.

Quickly Compare & Evaluate The 10 Best Wireframe Tools

Some people may prefer the good old fashioned method of pencil and paper for coming up with a quick wireframe design. Personally, I like to save a few trees and use a dedicated wireframing app instead. I’ve picked out a few of my favorites to share with you today.

In this post I’ll share with you the best prototyping tools to include on your wireframe software shortlist and explain how UX software can help you create an app mockup that will impress any client. I will tell you what you should look for in web wireframe tools and our evaluation criteria for assessing any mockup software and provide a simple UI mockup tools comparison.

Wireframe App Comparison Criteria

What do we even look for in a mockup generator? What qualities make certain wire frame apps stand out from the rest? We have a robust set of criteria that we use when analyzing any new tool. Here is a quick breakdown of our current evaluation process.

1. User Interface (UI): How well-designed is it? Does it offer clear displays and intuitive navigation?
2. Usability: Is this easy to learn and master? Are there tutorials and training? Does the company offer good tech and user support?
3. Features & Functionality: How many of the key website and app design software features and functions does it provide, and how powerful are they? Specifically, I looked for:
4. Drag & Drop: easily add and move elements with drag and drop simplicity, allowing you to quickly create and modify wireframes.
5. Feedback & Collaboration Tools: it’s important to be able to easily manage feedback on wireframes, with the ability to leave comments, mark up wireframes, attach files, and collaboratively build wireframes.
6. Interactive Elements: Allows you to make an interactive wireframe (sometimes called a “clickable prototype”, “interactive mockup”, “interactive prototype”, etc) which lets you create a clickable version of the wireframes to prototype the interactive elements.
7. Presentation Tools: wireframes are usually presented in the initial phases of a project, either internally or to clients, so the ability to quickly convert wireframes into visually beautiful presentations is important.
8. Revision History: Can you access previous versions to see changes and revert back to them — this saves your work so you don’t have to re-do it in the event of changes.
9. Integrations: Does the wire frame app connect with other tools? Any pre-built integrations?
10. Value for $: How appropriate is the price for its features, capabilities, and use case? Is pricing clear, transparent and flexible?

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Originally published at www.thedigitalprojectmanager.com on May 27, 2019.