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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

Variable types


Axure supported variables in previous versions, but Axure 6 has some significant enhancements that improve the practical use of variables in your prototype and open up new possibilities for creating high fidelity prototypes. Axure offers three types of variables which are discussed in the following sections.

Global variables

As their name suggests, global variables, once set, are available to any page throughout the browser session. In other words, they will expire only when you close your browser tab or window.

Axure's built-in variable

Axure comes with one built-in variable: the OnLoadVariable. It is a very useful container when each page in the prototype loads. As page load is a guaranteed event you can use this variable to initialize, set, or reset the value of widgets and other variables. One thing to keep in mind is that just because the variable is called OnLoadVariable, it will work even if not used exclusively on a page load event. It will work anywhere. However, in keeping...