Inspired by the neat JGrowl JQuery plugin at stanlemon.net, I’ve whipped up a little notification master in Axure.  Growl is a program that allows the display of nicely styled notification messages in Mac OSX. This technique is a simple combination of the animation hack with the use of transparent fills. Preview the prototype Download the [...]

People use the tools we design – sometimes every day.  Our job as designers is not only to get their goals and tasks completed as easily as possible, but to keep the user engaged and excited.  Here are some examples of designs that take the time to include interesting, funny, or or just plain awesome [...]

Whether you’re a new or experienced Axure user, the following links will help you become a library-wielding, animation-blasting, prototype-perfecting Axure ninja.  I’d recommend starting with the training items to get used to the basics, and then moving into the pattern libraries with more experience. This update includes some great new pattern libraries posted by the [...]

Despite the imminent danger of this blog becoming solely focused on Axure, I have a quick update: A big thanks to Richard Tsai over at Userxper for translating the pattern library into Traditional Chinese.  We’re going global!

More patterns for ya!  This is Version 2 of the first Axure stencil library. Demo the HTML OR  Download the Axure (.rp) File

Prototyping click-and-drag functionality in Axure has proven to be a problem.  I’d like to show off a little technique I just developed for simulating a “draggable” interaction in a prototype.  It’s not the real thing, but it’s the closest I’ve seen, and can be used to prototype touchscreen applications like those of the iPhone.  It [...]

Update: This library is out of date, please see Version 2. I am excited to present: The first Axure stencil library. Demo the HTML OR  Download the Axure (.rp) file

In some recent usability tests I noticed that users constantly have to click back and forth between “Help” documents and the content they’re getting help on.  Most software or web help documents suffer from this problem: They are separate from the content they refer to.  Clicking the “Help” link usually does one of four things: Open [...]