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Explore a flow or layout with 3+ disposable lo-fi greyscale wireframes on a named axis, before any hi-fi work. Use when the user wants to sketch directions or explore structure.
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Wireframe
Produce low-fidelity wireframes or storyboards to explore a flow, layout, or information hierarchy before committing to hi-fi design. Wireframes are disposable — their value is the breadth of options and the decision they produce, not the fidelity of any one artifact.
When to use
- The user wants to "explore options", "sketch something out", "see a few directions" for a screen, flow, navigation pattern, or hierarchy.
- The design problem is open enough that hi-fi work would be wasted — the structure question is not yet settled.
When NOT to use: styled, production-viable alternatives on a settled
structure → design-variations (hi-fi,
branded, recommendation-bearing). A single refined implementation →
fe-design + stack executor.
Procedure
- Confirm the goal. What is explored (screen / multi-screen flow / navigation / hierarchy / interaction model), the imagined user's goal, constraints (mobile/desktop, non-negotiable elements), the count (3 minimum, 5–6 ceiling), and the axis of variation. If the axis is open, propose 2–3 (e.g. single-page form vs multi-step wizard vs progressive disclosure) and ask which to explore.
- Hold the lo-fi conventions so the output reads as wireframe, not as
broken hi-fi:
- greyscale only — black, white, 2–3 grays; no brand color;
- system sans-serif — no type personality yet;
- labeled boxes for content areas ("headline", "image", "feature card");
- striped placeholders with monospace size labels for imagery (the
honest-placeholder pattern in
fe-design § Craft details); - short label-style skeleton copy ("Headline goes here / one sentence on
the value prop") — never Lorem ipsum (per
output-discipline), never final copy.
- Sketch ≥3 variations on the named axis — layout (centered / split / grid), information density, flow structure (single page / multi-step / progressive disclosure), CTA placement, navigation pattern. Write each variation's distinguishing structure down BEFORE sketching it — left unspecified, variations converge on near-identical layouts. Order by-the-book → off-distribution; at least one genuinely novel bet.
- Annotate — 2–4 numbered callouts per variation naming what is interesting and its trade-off ("fastest path, but heavy first impression"), placed next to the variation, not in a separate doc.
- Capture the decision after the user picks: chosen variation (or hybrid), what attracted them, what they explicitly rejected, new constraints surfaced. This capture is the brief for the hi-fi follow-up.
- Hand off —
design-variationsfor styled options on the chosen structure, ordesign-intelligence+fe-designfor a single hi-fi direction. In an existing codebase the hi-fi step still passesexisting-ui-auditper theui-audit-gaterule.
Output format
- One file (HTML or annotated markdown/SVG canvas) with ≥3 greyscale variations side-by-side — flows as small storyboards (3–5 screens each); no brand color, no styled typography, no real imagery.
- Per-variation annotations — 2–4 callouts naming the structural bet and its trade-off, inline next to the variation.
- Decision-capture block (after user pick) — chosen direction, attractions, explicit rejections, new constraints; framed as the hi-fi brief.
- No recommendation ranking — wireframes surface trade-offs; the pick
belongs to the user (contrast:
design-variationscloses with a recommendation).
Do NOT
- Do NOT apply brand color, brand type, or real imagery — that pulls focus to aesthetics before structure is settled.
- Do NOT polish — wireframes are disposable thinking artifacts.
- Do NOT write final copy or Lorem ipsum — label-style skeleton copy only.
- Do NOT let variations converge — write each variation's structure down before sketching.
- Do NOT skip decision capture — an exploration round without a recorded decision has to be re-litigated in the hi-fi round.
- Do NOT embed system internals (paths, skill/tool names) in the artifact —
Q13 in
design-antipatterns.md.
Gotcha
- This is the one context where rough, hand-drawn-feeling shapes (rectangles, lines, simple icons) are acceptable — everything sits at the same low fidelity, so nothing reads as a failed asset (the V4/imagery antipatterns apply to hi-fi, not here).
- The wireframe file tends to get promoted into hi-fi by incremental edits — don't. Start the hi-fi artifact fresh from the decision capture; the wireframe's greyscale skeleton hard-codes non-decisions.
See also
design-variations— hi-fi options on the chosen structure.design-intelligence— grounded direction selection for the hi-fi follow-up.fe-design— production heuristics + honest-placeholder pattern.existing-ui-audit— mandatory pre-step once hi-fi work lands in a codebase.