This book is dedicated to my mother, Eda.

To Tsippi and Shlomo Bobbe.

To my wife, Orit, who gave me her full support despite me braking a promise to abstain from writing so soon after the previous book, and to my sons, Ben and Yoav, who, during the writing of Axure RP 6 Prototyping Essentials, were already smarter than me and now surpass me in height and strength as well. Some of the time that went to writing and editing was family time—their time.

To my family: Julia, Hillel and Eitan Gauchman, Hedva Schwartz, Ruth and Doron Blatt; and to my good friends: Lisa Comforty, Jim Carlton and Caroline Harney, Christine and Scott Marriott, and Ayelet. To Alon Fishbach, and Barbara Drapcho whose clarinet lessons taught me that in performing music, as opposed to most things in life, I cannot "wing it" and to Alan Brazil for his high-fives whenever we met on an early morning run.

To all the colleagues and friends who have contributed directly or indirectly to the writing of this book, I wish I could mention all of you. I would like to extend special thanks to Kalpana Aravabhumi, Sunni Barbera, Oren Beit-Arie, Kirk Billiter, Juli Boice, Janet Borggren, Martin Boso, Mary Burton, Gary Duvall, Richard Douglass, Mike Fleming, Chris Giesler, Jim Hobart, Victor Hsu, Allan Lawson, Ritch Macefield, Alice O'Brien, Kristin Richey, Julie Robertson, Iram Saiyad, Derik Schneider, Paul Sharer, Ginger Shepard, Sam Spicer, Andres Sulleiro, Arturo Ttovato, Kalyani Tumuluri, Zack Webb, Cord Woodruff, Donny Young, Maxine Zats, and Lynn Zealand for their tremendous support and encouragement.

I am tremendously grateful to my colleagues Sam Spicer, Ben Judy, and Jan Tomáš, the technical reviewers in this book, for their contribution. Their detailed, honest, knowledgeable, thoughtful, and generous comments helped make this a better book.

I would also like to acknowledge a few remarkable fellow practitioners who responded so generously to my request to share their expertise with the Axure community: Ildikó Balla, Adam Basey, Svetlin Denkov, Gary Duvall, Suresh Kandeeban, Ritch Macefield, Susan Grossman, and Shira Luk-Zilberman. Thank you!

Last but not least, thanks to the people who are behind the scenes of this book. My sincere gratitude to the editors and staff at Packt Publishing, and especially Ellen Bishop, Venitha Cutinho, Wilson D'souza, Pankaj Kadam, and Azharuddin Sheikh for their guidance, tremendous patience, and continuous encouragement throughout this project. It has been a real pleasure collaborating with you on this book.