What it is
A wireframe is a rough structural blueprint of a web page — black and white boxes showing where elements will go: the headline here, the image there, the button at the bottom. No colors, no real copy, no design. Just structure.
Why it matters
Wireframes let you solve layout problems before they become expensive design problems. Changing where a button sits in a wireframe takes two seconds. Changing it after a developer has coded the page takes two hours and a billing invoice.
The mistake most people make
Skipping wireframes entirely and jumping straight to design. Then everyone's reacting to how it looks instead of whether it works. By the time someone says "I don't think this layout makes sense," the designer has already built six pages on top of it.
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