Wireframes for IA

What the heck is a wireframe?

Recently, someone asked me about wireframes. In short, wireframes are a low-cost, quick way to rough out the architecture of web sites, structured documents, document sets, training courseware, marketing collateral, web-based applications, and systems. Some other buzz words that may be used interchangeably (though not always correctly) with "wireframe" are low-fidelity mockup or