Chaos while Choosing the right wireframe Framework for you
By Anupam PanwarOne can easily get lost in the world of frameworks which moreover achieves the same result but the way to achieve that result is different. Same is applied while choosing wireframe Framework. The Internet is filled with many such frameworks like whimsical, figma, adobe XD, and many more and thus choosing the apt one for you can sometimes leave you in bewilderment. I was also in the same state when I got started with wireframe designing for my preparatory level-1. I explored various youtube videos and in the same fashion various blogs related to best wireframe Framework and more I searched about it more I was in bewilderment because this is the usual way one feels when he/she has incomplete knowledge about something. I searched continuously for 2 hour about various features that these frameworks can offer me and with what ease I can achieve the desired result in these frameworks. At the end after exploring a dozen of youtube videos and half a dozen blogs I reached up to an conclusion that Figma could be the best choice for me because
- It is a web based service so you don’t need to download any particular app for designing. Any basic browser with an internet facility will work fine.
- Real time collaboration like in canva is a feature that makes it handy for multiple designers to work on the designs at the same time.
- Figma also provides a free plan to explore their platform which is sufficient enough to get your work done but if you are a college student then they are providing two year free subscription to their premium services so why not take advantage of the things that are explicitly made for you.
- Recently I came across a very fascinating feature of Figma that we can also show real time animation in our wireframe which makes it handy for the designer to explain his/her design to the client.
"For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so"
-- Shakespeare
Similar is applied with Figma also. It too comes with some flaws
- As it is a web based service so sometimes it can frustrate you due to poor internet connection and if it happens during your presentation it is capable of ruining your complete day.
Here are some of the pros and cons of figma but a similar list of pros and cons can be prepared for any other framework also thus choosing an apt framework for you becomes a thing of subjective matter accepting the flaws in order to utilize the cons is the discretion of the Person. So choose your framework wisely.