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Axure RP 6 Prototyping Essentials

By : Ezra Schwartz
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Axure RP 6 Prototyping Essentials

By: Ezra Schwartz

Overview of this book

Wireframes, interactive prototypes, and UX specifications are among the fundamental deliverables of every UX project. They are also the most labor and time intensive to produce due to constant changes in business requirements. Given these circumstances, Axure is quickly taking over as the preferred tool for prototyping. However, prototyping in Axure is strikingly different from the conventional method of producing static wireframes and to rapidly develop interactive prototypes in Axure, you'll need to have a good understanding of the tool and its features.Whether you are an individual practitioner or a member of a UX team, a consultant, or an employee, this book will teach you how to use Axure, one of the leading UX tools. You will learn to use Axure for producing top-quality deliverables and tackling the demands of rapid iterative UX projects of any complexity and size, and for any platform and device.Axure RP 6 Prototyping Essentials takes a very pragmatic approach to showing you how to use Axure and produce impressive deliverables while saving labor and time. You may not be in a position to change how projects are scheduled, budgeted, and managed, but you can be more creative and productive by mastering one of the leading UX tools in the market. After an initial introduction to Axure's user interface, terminology, and features, this book walks you through a medium-size UX project: a digital library that sells books, newspapers, and movies. Although some aspects of the prototyping process are simplified for the sake of clarity and efficiency, the demo project is an opportunity to discuss in context and in sequence topics such as addressing business and technical requirements, handling use cases and flow diagrams, low and high fidelity wireframe construction, interactivity, writing annotations, generating detailed UX specifications, and traceability. For the most part, Axure 6 RP Prototyping Essentials can be read in sequence or used as a reference guide.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Axure RP 6 Prototyping Essentials
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Getting started


When you launch Axure, you are presented with the Welcome Screen and Licensing window, as shown in the following screenshot:

This window allows you to:

  • Open recent files (A).

  • Create new RP files (B).

  • See which version of Axure you are running (C). Typically, Axure releases several updates during a version's life cycle; currently, there is no automatic update feature, so it is a good idea to check the Downloads section on the Axure's website, and update to the latest point release. If you are part of a team, it is recommended that all team members use the same version and point release. If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Axure, then keep a backup copy of your files. Once you save a version 5 file in version 6, you will not be able to open it in version 5 again.

  • Check whether the software is licensed to you or your organization (D). This information should reflect the information you provided when you purchased the software.

  • Access online tutorials (E) and video tutorials...