Collaborative Design that skips traditional wireframes Traditional Interaction Designers / IxDs, are familiar with a very waterfall process of working with low fidelity wireframes to strip out any robust visual noise and focus the design team and stakeholders solely...
Validating a design through user testing is necessary for the success of almost any product. And it’s even more critical in the mobile application space, where context and individual devices play an important role in how a product is experienced. Fortunately,...
prototyping tool comparison Designers use wireframe/prototyping tools to make it clear what are they creating and test app and website before it comes to actual coding. Compared to a low-fidelity and static wireframes, a clickable and interactive prototypes will make...
Axure RP has received a face-lift in the form of Axure RP 8. Axure RP, along with Sketch and Invisionapp, is among the most popular pieces of software for prototyping and wireframing, so it is only natural that UX designers see updates every-so-often. This one has...
Axure is a powerful tool for creating software prototypes quickly. Getting started with it is really easy; however, therein lies a danger. The tool is so intuitive that many users can be productive without undergoing any formal training. What they might not be aware...
Behind every great invention lie dozens of sacrificed prototypes. It took Michele Ferrero almost five years to perfect the spherical wafer within the famous chocolates that bear his name. No great product or invention emerges fully formed, and this applies to great...
A couple of months ago we started to leverage Axure on our Fiori, UX and design thinking projects. I first came across Axure while working with one of our clients. In this case, we wanted to simplify the Business Intelligence (BI) reporting framework for their...
In my research and development time at Creative Jar, I’ve created an Axure tool that automatically creates a full mobile menu prototype from spreadsheet data. Hopefully, this mobile menu tool will immediately save you days of work. Below I’ll describe how to utilise...
A UXB member recently asked…”How do you make links in Sketch?” The simple answer is you can’t. Due to the popularity of Photoshop and Sketch – which are dedicated UI design tools – prototyping tools like Axure get overlooked. If Photoshop is the reigning queen of...
So the thing with text inputs in Axure is that they kind of suck. But why?— you may ask—well, they aren’t too flexible if you want to customise it, or alter it in any way, and there aren’t many controllable states. Let’s say you’re designing a screen for mobile You...
