Agility is context-dependent. By contrast, the various prescribed Agile and Agile-like frameworks—just as with any set of best-fit guidelines—are context-independent. Does Axure practice Agile software development? The short answer: yes and no. For the long answer, read on.
We've been refining how we build software here at Axure since 2002, and by this point, the process is pretty streamlined. But we don't adhere to any particular espoused philosophy of process management; we aren't a strict Scrum Agile shop, and we don't make use of a Kanban board. Our approach is informal by design, which makes it hard to encapsulate in a pithy five-point list or what have you. But what I can do instead is describe it by example.
"UX Design has matured. 10 years ago, having a UX team would have been novel. Now, it's a must. Companies are defined by UX and customer delight because there are 20 other apps just like yours."
When ZS Associates went through a company-wide rebranding in 2014, Elizabeth Benker—at the time a Design Lead, and now the UX Manager for the firm's Javelin™ Product Suite—saw the opportunity for a systematic, standards-based approach to the design overhaul of the product portfolio.
There comes a time in the life of a young and successful manufacturing firm when disconnected homegrown systems and spreadsheets aren't enough to keep up with the volume of demand. That's when people like Ken Randall come into the picture.
In Italian, the word 'fiori' means flower. Three years ago, that's not a word that would likely spring to mind when thinking about enterprise business applications. SAP, known for creating software that form the digital spine of some of the world's largest companies, recognized that.
You don’t need to be a Fiori expert to start designing your own Fiori UX Apps. Working with Fiori stencils and icons created for use in Axure RP, you can quickly start building by dragging and dropping screens, icons and functional elements onto the canvas in Axure RP.
In 2014, CarMax set off on a journey to bring in Lean UX design principles to its organization. The company, known for revolutionizing the used car buying process in the U.S., is now focused on redesigning its web and mobile apps to seamlessly integrate the digital and store experience for its customers.
Sana Salam, founder of Sodales Solutions, shared how her firm uses Axure RP to design Fiori products for her enterprise clients in an article on the SAP Community Network.
If your organization recognizes that customer interactions with support are a key part of their overall experience with your products, support can get the investment needed to make those interactions count.
If you missed this year's AxureWorld Event on Nov. 20, not to worry. Ezra Schwartz, AxureWorld's founder and organizer, has published videos of the presentations on the conference site.
John Henry Krahenbuhl, Lead User Experience Designer at Epsilon and author of several books on prototyping, walks us through a recent client project that used interactive prototypes to quickly gather consensus around a design challenge--how to satisfy multiple client stakeholder interests on a single page.