When you incorporate conditional logic into your prototype, you save yourself from a great deal of overhead work. If you don't use conditional logic, you are limiting your ability to simulate conditional interactions in your prototype. Let's face it, we use logic all the time, even if the results are not always logical. Moreover, in computer science and interaction design, we must use conditional logic in order to accommodate variable situations and exceptions. Yet, there seems to be a general reluctance to deal with direct use of logic when it comes to using software. A good example is the so-called "advanced" search feature that most search engines, including Google, offer, and the reason why Google's concept of a single search field and no operators has become the standard search interface.
Axure RP 6 Prototyping Essentials
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Axure RP 6 Prototyping Essentials
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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
Free Chapter
Prototyping Fundamentals
Axure Basics—the User Interface
Prototype Construction Basics
Interactivity 101
Advanced Interactions
Widget Libraries
Managing Prototype Change
Functional Specifications
Collaboration
Index
Customer Reviews