When you decide to convert your WooCommerce website to a mobile app, it starts with excitement and vision. If you are proceeding in this direction, you may already have a design of your app in mind. However, wireframing your mobile app early in the planning process will make all the difference.

Technically, wireframing is a schematic blueprint in mobile app development. It is a visual guide that represents the layout of the app, the flow between the app screens and its functional representation.

Wireframing your mobile app lets you explore your thought process for building an app. This way, you can enable easy navigation and increase the utility of your app with a tint of simplicity. In simpler words, it bridges the gap between your initial, raw thoughts and the final product before the development of the app begins.

With wireframing, you can simply visualize a complete app experience. This will lead to a deeper exploration of multiple layout ideas, concepts, and workflows in the app. Similarly, you will be ready to build a fully functional, intuitive and user-friendly mobile app.

Do not just jump-start with mobile app development, without wireframing your app. It will help you avoid as many unanticipated obstacles as possible, and also save your time, money, and effort.
Let’s dive into its benefits – 

Deeply understand your use case (s)



The primary step is to define the purpose of your app as it is the groundwork for your app’s success. Moreover, the purpose of your app should be specific enough to encourage users to download and use the app. 

The design of your app should not just be impressive. It should be effective enough to help the user to solve a problem or achieve a goal. Else, people will ultimately forget it or delete it from their phone. 

The best way to define the purpose of your app is by documenting its use cases.

A use case is a list of actions that your user will take to achieve a goal from start to finish. However, depending on the goal (s), the number of use cases may vary.
Let’s say: 
- A weather app’s only goal is to disclose the weather conditions for a specific location.
- A taxi app’s goal is to let users hire a taxi.

However, a mobile app for your HR department will have many goals. From one-on-one chat communication to company-wide communication, employee reviews and feedback to training, defining company policies to their management, and more.

Wireframing your mobile app ensures clarity in each step of the app planning and development process. Also, it allows you to invest your resources in the most value-added elements.

Therefore, you need to define your use cases and use them to lead all future decisions, development, messaging, and updating.

Get in your user's shoes

While it is crucial to understand the context behind the use case, you also need to focus on what your users will have in mind when they are downloading your app.
With wireframing, you can think about the context and the motivation behind your users’ actions that help you to adjust to it. Moreover, it can be easily modified and you will have opportunities to explore and define the most common conditions of the user.

For each of the context, you can easily analyse the process, the limitations, and the app’s utility and ability to fulfill the user’s needs before you start making your own app.

A railway app, for example, permits the user to access train schedules and book tickets. With the user log in and available menu, users can access the search fields and their settings.

In this case, if you think about the context, users are likely looking for a quick solution and in haste. Therefore, the app suggests the best options based on their current location that immediately reflects on their home screen.

Users on-the-go have easy goals to achieve. Hence, navigating them through multiple steps to reach their objective can eventually make them abandon your app.
Be clear about your users’ journey with the app. 

Optimize the number and order of app screens to reach the goal

Users often need information in a few seconds. Therefore, your app screens should be limited and comprise of crisp and clear information about your app.
If you add more screens per session, it could indicate that your user is struggling to find what they are looking for. It is possible if the path of your app is not as clear and intuitive. Also, if the users prefer a different order of actions from what you have imagined - these scenarios will annoy your users and make them look for other options.

It is simple, and no one likes to tap the extra number of steps, or back button a dozen times, just because they are unable to find a logical path. 
In that sense, wireframing your app helps you display the right information on the app, and put the exact transition time between screens. It will easily prevent annoyances for the user with minimum resources.

Most importantly, with this vision in mind, you can build your app via the WooCommerce mobile app builder. 
Wireframing will help you tackle the screen flow, the content of the screen, and its layout when it costs you nothing to make changes.

Make efficient use of high-level design and dummy resources

Wireframing helps you efficiently focus on the app’s skeleton, where no coding or design work needs to be done. The key organizational elements of an app from the app menu to call-to-action buttons and main functionalities are all designed with complex elements at the stage of app development. 
This, in particular, saves time and effort because the wireframe defines how your app will work rather than what it will look like. With wireframing, it is much easier to move between its core elements to make changes.

Once the wireframing is complete, you can engage resources such as a mobile app builder for WooCommerce, and others to work on the app prototype. This way, you can implement better resource distribution that will simplify your work and help you fetch what you are trying to achieve with the app.

Learn the optimal flow by testing multiple wireframes

For each use case, you can test several wireframes, such as positioning of a button, menu layout, and more. 
Multiple wireframes help you make subtle tweaks in the app and will pay off later. With these frames, you will open up many possibilities to test various functional flows of your app.

For using multiple wireframes, you need to be mindful while using use cases for your app’s ultimate value and purpose. Moreover, you also need to make sure that you do not switch between your chosen use cases when you are creating wireframes that will be tested against each other. If, for example, you did that, you will not be able to test against the same user journey and screen flow.

Consequently, when you are creating multiple wireframes for a single-use case, you should ideally tweak a few elements at once, that will help you measure the genuine feedback between the versions. However, if you change too many functionalities simultaneously, you may not identify which one ‘works’ and which one is off the track.
Multiple wireframes should include tweaks in the visual hierarchy, navigation structure, labels, tabs and buttons, positioning, size, or more. It may affect the user experience and make preliminary testing more meaningful.

Wrapping up

Wireframing is the first step in the app development process. It helps you test the actual design and building to submission, launch, promotion, and analysis of your app.
Be creative and practical because wireframing is a simple, low-investment task. It helps you make sure that you will have excellent output in all the following steps in the app development process.

If you are short on time and resources, you might consider engaging a WooCommerce app builder to build your app. It will help you design your app more effectively and efficiently.  
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