Category Archives: User Experience

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.

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…

Digital Editions: Working Again, Still Not Impressed

Just as a follow-​up to my last post about the new Adobe Digital Editions eBooks reader soft­ware, Adobe has released and updated ver­sion a cou­ple days ago that solved the crash­ing prob­lem that I and many other users were hav­ing. So now, I can now go back to read­ing my Flash book. I’m happy I can go back to study­ing the…

Adobe Digital Editions: I’m Really NOT Impressed

Last week, I pur­chased an eBook from Adobe Press (Flash CS3 related) because I wanted to get back up to speed with Flash since I’ll need to use it for upcom­ing projects. This was the first time I bought an eBook and the only rea­son I did was because I wanted it right away and didn’t want to wait for…

The New Adobe CS3 User Interface

Now that I have installed the new CS3 Design Premium release ver­sion and have actu­ally spent some time work­ing with the new appli­ca­tions, I’m start­ing to under­stand the fuss a lot of peo­ple made and are still mak­ing over the new Adobe user inter­face. Although I was a beta tester, I’ve mainly been using Fireworks and Dreamweaver CS3 because…