Maxure is here!
If you’re a Mac user like me, Axure may be one of the only remaining reasons you keep a Windows installation around. We’re almost out of the woods, because an alpha version for Mac has just been released. It still needs some work: some supporting features, like shared projects, haven’t made the cut [...]
Kevin Wick has posted a very nice sketchy-styled Axure library. I highly recommend it.
Prototyping in a very low-fidelity visual style generally helps your stakeholders provide feedback at the right level, as discussed in this article, and has been adopted by many other design tools, notably Balsamiq.
Like using Axure as much as I do? Check out the first Axure-centered conference, AxureWorld 2009, on October 10. It’s all online, and completely free.
I’ll be presenting two panels: Variables and Conditional Logic; Raised Events, and Axure Tips and Tricks. There are a bunch of other great panels hosted by Axure ninjas: [...]
Web applications and sites these days are using many social features. This library, compatible with Axure versions 5.5 and up, contains many of the standard widgets you will need to prototype basic social functionality.
You’ll find a lot more than nice looking stencils – these widgets have polished interactivity, for your prototyping and usability testing [...]
I continually see folks asking for examples of Axure wireframes. We just relaunched engagebig.com with a fresh design and some simple interactions. The prototype for the site is now here for your perusal:
Engagebig.com v2 Prototype
About a month ago, the folks at Zurb published a nice article about sketching wireframes. I went ahead and purchased some new sketching items including a nice thick sharpie and a cool gray “dropshadow” pen.
The difference in my sketches is incredible. Zurb hits the nail on the head, saying, “Although we advocate keeping things as [...]
We’ve been busy over at the Breakthrough Innovation Group working on our passion project, Do the Right Thing.com. Although successful at first, the original site has become somewhat inactive after the concept failed to produce the real change that we are hoping to make.
In the name of transparency and providing a useful example for the [...]
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 .rp file
Axure has now made the 5.5 beta available to the public. Go try out those features I mentioned yesterday!
If you’ve followed this blog at all, you may have noticed that Axure RP is my prototyping tool of choice. Axure is currently working on the 5.5 version of their product, and a few of us Axure zealots have been able to beta test the next release.
The current version of the beta reflects some awesome [...]
