This is version 2 of the Better Defaults library, expanded to sixty five (or so) interactive and cleanly styled widgets. Use it in place of the standard widget set. Reasons to use these widgets include: Consistent and improved styling. Polished interactivity. Standardized labeling. Expanded set of shapes & controls. Rollover, MouseDown, Selected, and Disabled styles [...]
Want to make your own Axure libraries? This is a short how-to guide on getting the most out of it.
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: Fred Beecher, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Axure has now made the 5.5 beta available to the public. Go try out those features I mentioned yesterday!
