Wireframing

What stands more crucial about your product or an application ? Its the ability to use the product by more and more users! In simple terms, its User Experience ! In order to provide a seamless experience to your users, Wireframing plays a critical role in the product life cycle.

Wireframe is a visual representation of your idea and vision for the product. It outlines the structure, functionality and navigation prior to beginning the design and development phase. It aligns on business goals and user needs which helps your teams to establish your product in the market faster by gaining a position with the competitors. It also minimizes the cost or revisions in the later process.

Reasons Wireframing is important –

1. Brings product vision to reality
2. Minimizes product complexity and enhances user experience
3. Helps validating user demands
4. Assists in identifying built complexity
5. Facilitates team collaboration
6. Recognizes cross dependent team’s requirements
7. Mitigates risks at early stages
8. Guides PMs to deploy the Minimum Viable Product with Maximum Value Proposition

When the product is in its ideation stage, wireframing acts as a bridge between Business Objectives, Product vision and Design execution. As a Product Owner or a Product Manager, it allows you to bring user problems to reality by visualizing the features, drawing it down to validate ideas and align cross-dependent teams towards a common goal.

With the ideation of the journaling product, gathering purpose, vision, user research, competitive analysis, laying the product strategy and roadmap and lastly identifying key themes and features, as a Product Owner, Isaac is set to create a prototype of his product. He collaborates with his UX design team and communicates the goal. He provides clear requirements with use cases and workflow that will help the UX designers to create the wireframes.

He focuses to provide details on –

1. Product home page
   • Use case 1: As a new user, I need a landing page for the journal so that I can view the what the product offers
   • Use case 2: As a new user, I need to understand how the journal works, what are its key features and read reviews of existing users so that I can Signup
2. Sign in and Sign up components
   • Use case 1: As a new user, I need ability to sign up using my email address so that I can maintain my account and keep my entries secured
   • User case 2: As a new user, I need ability to use Google or Facebook accounts to sign up so that I can conveniently log in
   • User case 3: As an existing user, I need sign in or log in ability so that I can access my existing account
   • User case 4: As an existing user, I need Google or Facebook sign in option if I had signed up using the same
   • Use case 5: As an existing user, I need Reset password option, if I had logged in using my email address and have forgotten my password
   • User case 6: As a company policy, I need all users to accept the consent/Terms or Condition so that they comply with the products policies
   • User case 7: As a system, when a new user tries to sign up for a new account and email address is identified, show an error message stating an account exists
   • Use case 8: As a existing user, I need to see Sign In option, so that I can go back to sign in page if I mistakenly had clicked Signup
3. Main Journaling page
   • Use case 1: As a user, I need to write my thoughts on a daily page, so that I can reflect o the day to track my personal growth
   • Use case 2: As a user, I need ability to format my text, add images and a link, so that I can personalize the entries
   • Use case 3: As a user, I need an AI bot so that it can suggest new activities that can change my mood and enhance my journaling experience
   • Use case 4: As a user, I need a calendar option, so that I can view or edit my entries
   • Use case 5: As a user, I need to add tasks, so that I can organize my daily productivity
   • Use case 6: As a user, I need to select my mood for the da so that I can monitor my emotional well-being over time
   • Use case 7: As a user, I need to view statistics of my journaling habits so I can track my consistency
   • Use case 8: As a user, I need ability to add a new page so that I can write additional notes or new topics for the day
   • Use case 9: As a user, I need ability to change my settings so that I can personalize journaling experience according to my preferences
   • Use case 10: As a user, I need ability to provide feedback so that I can share suggestions to improve the product
4. Feedback page
   • Use case 1: As a user, I need ability to rate the app and add notes, so that I help in improving the product

Issac creates a prototype of designated product with his business stakeholders to turn their vision into reality.

Here are some wireframes that UX teams have suggested –

1. Website Home Page
   
2. About us – Page 1
   
3. About us – Page 2
   
4. About us – Page 3
   
5. Sign Up component
   
   
6. Sign In component
   
   
7. Journal Page
   
8. Feedback Page
   

On the other hand, he collaborates with his development team and shares the same idea and use cases to draw technical development and requirements and understand technical feasibility on the features. This helps him in planning and developing a roadmap for the technical team (assuming he is leading one) with a cross-dependency of UX team.

He also needs to take into consideration to meet and understand about the front end host and back end database or CRM from the Infrastructure and Data Engineering teams, ensuring accountability for performance, storage, security and scalability, Data Science or AI teams to build a secured AI feature app integrating with the product and building an LLM that does not share the customer data to a third-party, Marketing team to position the product on acquiring new users and drive SEO strategies, Customer support to handle user inquiries, feedback and complaints, Legal teams to ensure compatibility of compliance and privacy laws and Analytics team to monitor user behavior and retention.