Utilizing Illustrator to Create Website Wireframes
In this series of tutorials, we'll talk about some of the steps that you'll go through when using Illustrator to build a website wireframe. Software required: Illustrator 17.1.0.
What you'll learn
In this series of tutorials, we'll talk about some of the steps that you'll go through when using Illustrator to build a website wireframe. We'll start by talking about the purpose of our site and our client needs. We'll set up our artboard for our home page and talk about the importance of the 960 grid system. We'll go over the 12 column grid and how it can help us now and further along the development process. Next we'll talk about the great tools in Illustrator that help us quickly and easily create elements for our wireframe, duplicate them and reuse them for other pages. We'll also go through the process of taking a wireframe from low-fidelity to medium-fidelity. We'll finish by talking about responsive design and creating a wireframe for a tablet and a smartphone. By the end of this training you should feel more confident when using Illustrator to create website wireframes. Software required: Illustrator 17.1.0.
Table of contents
- Setting up an Artboard for Wireframes in Illustrator 6m
- Creating Columns and Guides for Website Wireframes 9m
- Wireframing the Home Page Elements 9m
- Wireframing the Services Page Elements 7m
- Wireframing Elements for the Staff Page 8m
- Creating a Wireframe for the Contact Us Page 7m
- Transitioning from a Low-fidelity Wireframe to a Medium-fidelity Wireframe 9m
- Fleshing Out the Rest of Our Wireframes 11m
- Illustrating Responsive Design for a Tablet 9m
- Illustrating Responsive Design for a Smartphone 8m
About the author
Alex is a motion graphics author at Pluralsight. Starting out his career in illustration and design gave Alex a firm foundation in the more traditional forms of art. As he refined his skills, he eventually was pulled into the world of motion animation, as well as product design. It was there that Alex was able to take his artistic skills to new heights and really develop himself as a well-rounded CG artist. Whether you need a better workflow for building website layouts, or a crash course in... more