Wireframing

With user stories laid out, let's shift our focus to actual wireframing. For reasons we will get into later on, our wireframing efforts will be focused around the customer perspective.

There are numerous wireframing tools out there, both free and commercial. Some commercial tools like https://ninjamock.com, which we will use for our examples, still provide a free plan. This can be very handy for personal projects, as it saves us a lot of time.

The starting point of every web application is its home page. The following wireframe illustrates our web shop app's homepage:

Wireframing

Here we can see a few sections determining the page structure. The header ...

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