What is Squig?
Squig is a browser-based wireframing tool for people who think by drawing and want to explore layouts before visual polish takes over. Users drag real UI components, blocks, and full screen templates onto an infinite canvas, then switch variants or break a component into editable primitives. Documents autosave in browser storage, with no account or cloud required.
Why Squig works
High fidelity tools make early ideas look decided, while blank drawing canvases make every button manual. Squig supplies real components through a sketchy renderer, so the work tests three layouts instead of polishing one too early.
Squig features
- Real UI component library. Build screens from buttons, inputs, selects, switches, tables, dialogs, tabs, navigation, and sidebars, plus larger blocks and full screen templates.
- Fast component variants. Change details such as icon position, size, and filled or outline styling in the inspector while each object stays a component.
- Editable break apart mode. Turn a component into editable drawing primitives when its built-in variants do not cover the layout you need. The change is one way by design.
- Infinite canvas controls. Pan, zoom, multi-select, marquee, snap to smart guides, nudge with the keyboard, and undo or redo while arranging a wireframe.
- Search and paste workflows. Use Command K to find tools, actions, components, and blocks, or paste screenshots, copy, and layers directly where the pointer sits.
- Local autosave and export. Documents stay in browser storage and autosave as you draw. The recent file drawer keeps the last 40 files, and important work can be exported as a copy.
Who Squig is for
- Product designers comparing several interface layouts before committing to high fidelity screens.
- UX practitioners who want reusable buttons, forms, dialogs, and navigation instead of drawing each control from scratch.
- People who already know Figma-style shortcuts and want a faster sketching canvas with familiar keyboard controls.
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