Category Archives: Prototyping

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Better Defaults v2 Axure RP Library Released

My friend Loren Baxter who is an Interaction Designer and UX Engineer and owns the site “A Clean Design” has just released ver­sion 2.0 of his fan­tas­tic “Better Defaults” library of wid­gets for Axure RP 5.5 and higher.

Now is a Good Time to be a Fireworks Evangelist

I could not imag­ine my cre­ative process with­out Adobe Fireworks. I have been using that appli­ca­tion since ver­sion 2.0 some­time in 1999. 10 years ago, Fireworks was not an obvi­ous choice but the work­flow advan­tages over Photoshop were imme­di­ately evi­dent to me and my cre­ative process never was the same. Unfortunately, it took almost all those years…

Enable Commenting on your Live Axure Prototypes

I’ve started work­ing on a large project as part of a team of 5 peo­ple recently. Aside from doing the visual design, I’m work­ing on the UX strat­egy and infor­ma­tion archi­tec­ture with an IA and UX designer from the US. We’re of course cre­at­ing most of our doc­u­men­ta­tion, user flows, wire­frames and pro­to­type in Axure RP Pro. He…

Rapid Prototyping Tools and Principles

Dan Harrelson from Adaptive Path has writ­ten a very inter­est­ing blog post titled Rapid Prototyping Tools and what makes good prototypes. My long time favorite Adobe Fireworks is men­tionned along with Axure RP Pro (which is a newer tool in my arsenal) but also sev­eral oth­ers includ­ing online tools like Balsamiq Mockups. What is most inter­est­ing to me in the post is…

Axure RP Pro 5.5 Has been Released

The new ver­sion 5.5 of Axure RP Pro has been released a cou­ple days ago after being in pub­lic beta for a few months. It’s a very sig­nif­i­cant upgrade in terms of new fea­tures and is free for exist­ing cus­tomers with a cur­rent license. Noteworthy fea­tures include the abil­ity to load and cre­ate exter­nal wid­get libraries (sim­i­lar to Visio…