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I feel like a moron for asking this, because clearly at least 18 people liked it enough to upvote without explanation, but...

Why would I want to do this...?



Enables you to easily borrow someone else's layout as 'inspiration' that you can then tweak. Don't discount the number of designers/developers that use another layout (or elements of it) as a base to work from - I've seen many do it.

Before there's a "Plagiarising!" response, also keep in mind that the final product in this case usually looks nothing like the original but that an original often serves as a more effective starting point than a blank canvas.


Good points prawn.

Certainly if someone was to 'rip' an existing website design wouldn't they just grab the HTML+CSS directly? Wirify is definitely not intended, nor useful, for that.


In some cases. In others, you might be starting with a simplified wireframe (and these remove identifying brands, colours, etc) or you would screen capture and use it as a layout base in PhotoShop.


While I am largely asking the same thing, the only bit of answer I could find came from the video: "As you can see, the wireframe does expose a lot of the structural aspects of the underlying page, which can be useful for analysis."


Hi zachallaun, please see my response to mcantor below - hope that clarifies a bit.


I can see how someone could use it, then! Cheers on the release.


Maybe to analyse the current website's structure against a wireframe concept for the next version?


Spot on keyle, website redesign is one of the key uses we're pitching Wirify for.




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