When you’re designing a presentation, client proposal, product or service demonstration – or planning a website or a mobile app: sketching and wire framing are great ways to quickly visualize the process. Even when you’re hiring someone to execute the project, thinking of things like the placement of major layout elements early on in a project often makes a helpful checklist of things that need to be in the final product. Here are ten of the best printable solutions available – five free and five premium – to assist in this process.

Free Printables

Paper Browser

Paper Browser is a wireframe tool that provides an actual viewing resolution of your potential user: “…enabling you to focus on what you do best – design.”

Konigi Graph Paper Templates

Six printable graph paper files for interface sketching. You’ll find styles for wireframing user interfaces and story boarding interaction.

iPhone App Wireframe Template 

From the makers of  the iPhone App Momento. Grid squares are equivalent to 10px, and tick marks indicate the heights of the Status Bar, Navigation Bar, Keyboard, Tab Bar and Toolbar, both vertically and horizontally.

Web or Presentation Sketching Template

Created by Information Architect María P. Arrilucea, this wireframe print out is inspired by the one of Brandon Schauer from Adaptative Path.

SketchKit Wireframes

Sketchkit is a download for Apple Keynote that includes pre-drawn iOS interface elements that can be used to create wireframes for iPhone apps. All elements and the text labels can be edited and resized, reused, and optimised for quick export to paper prototypes.

Premium Printables

PowerMockup

Turn powerpoint into a wireframing tool. How great is that?!? With stencils, icons, instant search and categories, the major advantage is that just about every one knows PowerPoint and can participate in the design process. Downside: PowerMockup is for PC only. Mac version not available.

Proto.io

“Create fully-interactive high-fidelity prototypes in minutes that look and work exactly like your app should.” Free and premium plans. Not only can you print out your designs – you can see and interact with them in real time. Awesome.

Web Design Sketchbook

The Web Design Sketchbook has been updated into a single, 97 page hardbound book with gridded browsers in different sizes. The thumbnails size is great for idea generation, story boarding and designing interactions. Full page designs allow for detailed planning.

UI Stencils

UI Stencils allow you to quickly generate ideas with a simple, yet comprehensive set of icons and symbols. The company releases new versions frequently to stay current with changes in OS and components. Stencils and other planning supplies for iPhone, Android, and Windows phones are available.

Keynotopia

A collection of user interface design templates that enable you to prototype and test your app ideas in 30 minutes or less using Apple Keynote, Microsoft PowerPoint, or OpenOffice Impress. The templates include thousands of wireframe and high fidelity vector UI components, meticulously designed from scratch in Keynote, Powerpoint and OpenOffice, and fully editable and customizable without needing additional design tools.