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Prototyping Essentials with Axure

By : Ezra Schwartz, Elizabeth Srail
Book Image

Prototyping Essentials with Axure

By: Ezra Schwartz, Elizabeth Srail

Overview of this book

<p>Designing the user experience has never been more exciting, while prototyping it has never been more challenging. Whether you are an individual practitioner or a member of a UX team, a consultant, or an in-houseUX resource, this book will teach you how to plan, construct, and document top-quality, device/OS-agnostic artifacts and deliverables such as task and user flows, persona briefs, wireframes, prototypes, and specifi cations with Axure 7, the leading UX industry design tool.<br /><br />Axure 7 is used worldwide by tens of thousands of UX professionals, business analysts, and product managers in global corporations, governments, large institutions, leading interactive agencies, and consultancies.<br /><br />Prototyping Essentials with Axure Second Edition is a detailed, practical primer on Axure 7.0 and is a complete rewrite of the previous edition due to the numerous new features in Axure 7.0. Demand for skilled Axure professionals is high and familiarity with Axure is an expected prerequisite skill for UX designers worldwide.</p>
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Prototyping Essentials with Axure Second Edition
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Afterword
Index

The Masters Pane


As the name suggests, a master is a single wireframe that can be reused on other wireframes. When you edit the master wireframe, the change will instantly be applied to all the instances of this master, effectively updating all the wireframes where the master has been placed. There are several good reasons to incorporate masters into your prototype construction as much as possible:

  • Manage consistency of design patterns across the user interface.

  • Save yourself enormous amounts of time by updating to the master wireframe; Axure will reflect the change on all other relevant wireframes.

  • Save more time, write your annotation once, and avoid extra work, redundancy, and errors in the UI Specifications document in the output.

  • Reduce the size of your Axure file as masters reduce the redundancy of duplicated widgets.

Use the Masters pane to:

  • Manage and organize the project's masters, including the option to add, delete, rename, group in folders, change order, and so on.

  • Select a master for...