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Wireframe vs Framework - What's the difference?

wireframe | framework |

As nouns the difference between wireframe and framework

is that wireframe is (computer graphics) a visual model of an electronic representation of a three-dimensional object while framework is software framework.

As a verb wireframe

is (computer graphics) to generate a representation.

wireframe

English

Alternative forms

* wire frame * wire-frame

Noun

(en noun)
  • (computer graphics) A visual model of an electronic representation of a three-dimensional object
  • *{{quote-book, 2001, Philip D. Rufe, Fundamentals of Manufacturing citation
    • , passage=A wireframe is transparent in nature, requiring some skill and expertise in interpreting the model.}}
  • (web design) A basic visual guide used to suggest the layout of fundamental elements in a web interface
  • *{{quote-book, 2003, Andrew Chak, Submit Now: Designing Persuasive Web Sites citation
    • , passage=Wireframes should be simple sketches that you can quickly revise and not get attached to.}}

    See also

    *(Wire-frame model) *(Website wireframe)

    Verb

    (wirefram)
  • (computer graphics) To generate a representation
  • *{{quote-book, 2003, , Idoru citation
    • , passage=She'd barely wireframed it, here, and there was no there there, no interiority. }}
  • (web design) To prepare a for a website
  • *{{quote-book, 2006, Daniel M. Brown, Communicating Design citation
    • , passage=There are a few lists you should make before you start wireframing .}}

    Derived terms

    *wireframed *wireframer

    framework

    English

    (wikipedia framework)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (literally)   The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.
  • (figuratively)   The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape.
  • (figuratively, especially in, computing)   A basic conceptual structure.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
    • , author=John T. Jost , title=Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)? , volume=100, issue=2, page=162 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.}}
    These ‘three principles of connexion’ comprise the framework of principles in Hume's account of the association of ideas.
  • (literally)   The identification and categorisation of processes or steps that constitute a complex task or mindset in order to render explicit the tacit and implicit.

    • Derived terms

    * architectural framework * framework agreement * software framework