Tips, tricks, and the latest updates
Paul Olson at Axure Users Meetup, Chicago
In May the Axure Users Meetup, Chicago, celebrated the 15th anniversary of Axure—both the company and the product, Axure RP—with an interesting talk and bountiful refreshments. Axure treated the group to bao and potstickers (because phở is a little difficult to share), beer, and birthday cake.
The Approachable Guide to Prototyping for Accessibility with Axure RP
This guide pulls together a number of accessibility issues worthy of your consideration as you develop your next Axure RP prototype, along with some simple steps you can take in the tool to pilot your project toward an outcome that's more friendly for all types of people to consume.
Accessibility and Prototyping: Axure in Conversation with Jennifer Sutton
Jennifer Sutton of JSutton Media dives into Accessibility and Prototyping. She answers questions such as: What a well-meaning UI designer can do if a project's stakeholders truly have "no accessibility aspirations" and are maybe even hostile to the notion.
Axure was born when Victor and Martin were working together at a Bay Area startup and went looking for a better tool to help them gather requirements and produce specifications, wireframes, and prototypes.
Enhance Your Widget Libraries with Custom Widget Icons, Tooltips, and More
Recently on the blog we've been talking about widget libraries: how to download and use libraries built by other people and how to make your own widget libraries using Axure RP.
World Information Architecture Day, now in its sixth year, is taking place this Saturday at over 50 locations across five continents. The distributed conference subsists on the efforts of a small army of volunteer IA professionals, from local speakers and organizers to the global leadership team.
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.
Developing the Subscription Update to the Axure Customer Portal
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.
Catching Up with Megan Miller and Erik Flowers of Practical Service Design
"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."