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TermCraft conventionFoundational

Wireframe

A rough sketch of what goes where.

Definition

A low-fidelity representation of layout and content priority, deliberately excluding visual styling.

Craft convention. True because the industry converged on it. Breaking it costs familiarity, not correctness.

In plain language

A rough sketch of what goes where.

Example

Grey boxes and placeholder text used to agree structure before anyone argues about colour.

Each link says what the connection is, so you can tell a principle from an alternative from a thing people mix this up with.

Deeper reading

The full entry behind this definition.

Related concept

Connected closely enough to change how you apply this.

Nearby in the Atlas

Adjacent territory, found through shared tags rather than a stated link.