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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

Guided example


We will start with a quick example, which builds on the static wireframes we created in Chapter 2, Axure Basics—the User Interface.

Step 1: Defining the interaction in simple words

When the user clicks on a tab on the Global Navigation bar, it links to the corresponding page. The new page will replace the current page.

As a learning device, use the W3C to break the sentence into the following building blocks:

  • When: When the user clicks on it

  • Where: A tab on the global navigation bar (widget)

  • What: Link to the corresponding page

  • Condition: No condition

Step 2: The Axure interface

Open the Global Navigation master (M Global Nav), for editing in the Wireframes pane as shown in the following screenshot. The navigation bar is made of four rectangle type widgets, styled to have a Tab Left appearance. Although each of these tabs will have an interaction attached to it, we will use the Books tab widget (B) for this example:

In the Widget Properties pane (C), click on the Interactions tab (D...