App development · lesson 10 of 24 · free

Wireframes — App development for students

A wireframe is a simple sketch of a screen: plain grey boxes that show where things go — a top bar, a search box, a list, a big picture, a tab bar. It has no real colours or fonts; a box with a cross means a picture goes here. Wireframes are drawn before any code, often with pencil and paper, because moving a box on paper takes seconds while changing finished code takes much longer. Read a wireframe from top to bottom.

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Developer's tip

Boxes before beauty — “sketch plain boxes first; colours and pictures come later”

  1. A wireframe = plain boxes showing where each part goes; no final colours or pictures.
  2. Draw it before coding: changes are quick on paper.
  3. Read it top to bottom: “right below” is the next box, “right above” is the one before.

Use it for: Planning screens for a school app project or explaining a layout to your team.

Worked example: 🖼️ In this wireframe (top to bottom), what is right below the big picture?
[ big picture ]
[ Add button ]
[ Save button ]
[ title text ]
[ list of items ] → Add button

  1. The big picture is box 1 from the top.
  2. Box 2, right below it, is the Add button.

Check: The very bottom box is the list of items ✓

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