In March 2014, a few weeks before this book went to press, we collected the responses of 123 UX practitioners who responded to an open invitation we published on the Axure forum and the LinkedIn groups AxureWorld and Ax-Stream. The following table shows the responses. We were surprised by the high number of respondents who use the Team Project (formally Shared Projects) feature, the high number of respondents who have experience with RWD, and the high number of respondents who use/d Axure to generate Word/PDF specifications.
The survey questions and responses are presented as follows:
|
Questions and options |
Response percent |
|---|---|
|
Q1. For how many years have you been using Axure? | |
|
More than 6 years |
20.3% |
|
2-5 years |
58.5% |
|
1 year or less |
20.3% |
|
I'm evaluating Axure, have never used it |
00.8% |
|
Q2. Have you worked or are you working now on a project that involves RWD prototyping? | |
|
Yes |
69.9% |
|
No |
30.1% |
|
Q3. Is Axure your exclusive prototyping tool? | |
|
Yes |
64.2% |
|
No |
35.8% |
|
Q4. Have you ever used Axure Shared Projects (Team Projects in v7)? | |
|
Yes |
52.0% |
|
No |
48.0% |
|
Q5. Have you ever used Axure to create Word/PDF specifications? | |
|
Yes |
62.6% |
|
No |
37.4% |
|
Q6. Have you ever used Raised Events? | |
|
Yes |
45.5% |
|
No |
54.5% |
|
Q7. Have you ever used variables? | |
|
Yes |
86.2% |
|
No |
13.8% |
|
Q8. Is there a feature within Axure that you find hard to grasp? | |
|
Raised Events |
26.0% |
|
Masters |
04.9% |
|
Dynamic panels |
13.0% |
|
Variables |
22.0% |
|
Functions |
24.4% |
|
Creating PDF/Word output that is easy to read |
34.1% |
|
Debugging when something does not work |
49.6% |
|
Repeater |
29.3% |
|
Q9. Do you run into any performance issues with Axure 7? | |
|
No issues |
26.8% |
|
The HTML runs slow after I generate a prototype |
37.4% |
|
Tabbing between pages is slow |
31.7% |
|
Clicking between tasks always takes time |
26.8% |
|
Axure crashes on me more than twice a day |
15.4% |
It is interesting to note that less than a half of respondents used Raised Events and about a quarter found the feature hard to grasp. We find Raised Events to be one of the most valuable actions in Axure (as explained in Chapter 5, Advanced Interactions). So, if over a half of respondents do not use Raised Events, it is logical to conclude that they are not creating the most effective and robust prototypes. We leave it to you to infer other insights from this survey. It was not meant to be scientific, but it is a nice sample.