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Feeling stuck with stale ideas and stubborn stakeholders?

Wireframing is the fastest and easiest way for non-designers (and designers) to share product ideas, requirements, and feedback.

In Wireframing for Everyone, UX experts and educators Michael Angeles, Leon Barnard, and Billy Carlson teach you how to use wireframes to work smarter, communicate clearly, and design better products—no matter your role, team size, or setup.

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"Written by experienced practitioners, this valuable how-to guide offers pragmatic wireframing techniques and frameworks essential for creating successful products."
— Dan Olsen, Product team trainer, speaker, and author of The Lean Product Playbook

About Wireframing for Everyone

Many UX techniques fall apart in the real world of overflowing backlogs, two-week sprints, and stubborn stakeholders. Yet wireframing persists, despite its much-anticipated demise. Wireframes are fast and easy to make, can be created and understood by anyone, and function as both creative ideation and practical communication tools.

Leaning on decades of collective experience, Michael Angeles, Leon Barnard, and Billy Carlson show us how to use low-fidelity design to generate ideas, encourage feedback, and involve everyone in the process. This approachable book also harnesses wireframing to demystify UI design so that anyone can join in creating successful digital products.

Topics covered

  • Frameworks for implementing user interface design basics
  • Techniques for developing design concepts from idea to prototype
  • How to use wireframing for cross-functional team participation
  • How to present wireframes and create effective feedback structures

Written for you and your team

  • Product Managers
  • Analysts
  • Engineers
  • Marketers
  • Founders
  • Consultants
  • Students/Early Career UX

"SAFETY WARNING FOR UX PROFESSIONALS: Once you pick up Wireframing for Everyone, you will have difficulty putting it down. It’s just that captivating. YOU’VE BEEN WARNED."
— Jared Spool, Maker of awesomeness at Center Centre

Meet the authors

Michael Angeles

Michael Angeles

Michael Angeles has been an interface designer at Balsamiq since 2012. He has published articles and spoken at conferences on the topic of wireframing for product design. He created the IA Slash and Konigi blogs on interface design, and served as advisor and cofounder of the Information Architecture Institute.

Leon Barnard

Leon Barnard

Leon Barnard leads the education team at Balsamiq. He uses his extensive experience as a UX designer to teach user interface design basics and wireframing to an audience of mostly non-designers via the Balsamiq Wireframing Academy. He loves helping people and technology get along better together.

Billy Carlson

Billy Carlson

Billy Carlson is a design educator at Balsamiq, where he helps new and non-designers learn best practices for all phases of user interface and digital product design. He teaches university-level UX and design thinking courses, and, as a designer since 2005, he’s worked on myriad products and led large UX teams at various organizations.

Who is Wireframing for Everyone for?

Product teams

If you're ready to level up your product development process, this book is for you.

You’ll learn how to quickly share your ideas, requirements, and feedback through wireframes, so you can work smarter, get buy-in from stakeholders, and deliver better products faster.

Product stakeholders

If you want to speak your product team’s language, this book is for you.

You’ll learn how to communicate your vision and make strategic design decisions that drive product success—whether you're a marketer, consultant, exec, or founder.

Students/Early Career UX

If you're early in your career and want to stand out, this book is for you.

We're not here to tell you what you already know. Instead, you’ll add new skills to your UX toolkit so you can share better product ideas, work with any team, and design with confidence.

After reading, you'll learn how to:

  1. Work smarter and faster as a team.
  2. Get more creative in your designs.
  3. Clearly communicate your product ideas and feedback.
  4. Go from design idea to plan for implementation.
  5. Get inside the brain of pro designers.
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We see you designing too.

Many people don’t realize the design work that product managers, business analysts, developers, and founders do, all with little training in design.

That's why we wrote Wireframing for Everyone.

We want to help you design more creatively, improve communication, and break down silos within your existing processes—no matter what team you're on or how many people you work with.

Order your copy today!