Axure RP 6 Prototyping Essentials. Creating highly compelling, interactive prototypes with Axure that will impress and excite decision makers with this book and

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• Axure RP 6 Prototyping Essentials
  • Table of Contents
  • Axure RP 6 Prototyping Essentials
  • Credits
  • Foreword
  • About the Author
  • Acknowledgement
  • About the Reviewers
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  • Preface
    • What this book covers
    • What you need for this book
    • Who this book is for
    • Conventions
    • Reader feedback
    • Customer support
      • Downloading the example code
      • Errata
      • Piracy
      • Questions
  • 1. Prototyping Fundamentals
    • The art of UX prototyping
      • Prototyping interaction
    • The prototyping checklist
      • The project
        • Simple websites
        • Web applications and portals
        • Mobile apps
        • Heuristic evaluation
        • User validation
      • Deliverables: Prototype and specifications
    • Balancing act: What stakeholders have to say
      • Business stakeholders
        • Management
        • Business process architects
      • Project management
      • Visual design
      • Development stakeholders
    • The UX perspective
      • The UX practitioner
      • The UX team lead
        • The challenge
        • Team structure
        • Process
        • Extending the process
        • Axure: The Good
        • Axure: The Bad
        • Tips for using Axure on large design projects
    • Axure around the world
    • The Axure perspective
    • Summary
  • 2. Axure Basicsthe User Interface
    • Getting started
      • Working with multiple project files
    • The Axure workspace
      • Customizing the workspace
    • The Sitemap pane
      • Wireframe pages
      • Flow pages
    • The Page Properties pane
      • Page notes
        • Managing notes
      • Page interactions
      • Page formatting
        • Sketch effects
    • The Widgets pane
      • Wireframe Widgets
      • Flow widgets
      • Creating your own widget library
      • Third party widget libraries
    • The Widget Properties pane
      • Annotation tab
        • Annotation fields
        • Annotation views
      • Interactions tab
        • Interactions
        • Events
        • Cases
        • Actions
      • Formatting tab
        • Location and size
        • Font
        • Alignment + Padding
        • Style
        • Ordering
        • Fills, Lines, + Borders
    • The Wireframe pane
      • Grid and Guides
    • The Masters pane
      • Master behavior
        • Normal
        • Place in Background
        • Custom Widget
      • Usage Report
    • The Dynamic Panel Manager
    • The toolbar and menu bar
    • Axure file formats
      • The .RP file format (stand-alone)
      • The RPPRJ file format (shared project)
    • Summary
  • 3. Prototype Construction Basics
    • Prototyping principles
    • Alexandria, the Digital Library Project
    • Getting startedproductivity in 30 minutes
      • Initial requirements and use cases
      • Use case diagram page
      • Saving the project file
      • First wireframe pages
      • Task flow diagram page
        • Browse path flow diagram
        • Search path flow diagram
      • Link use cases to flow diagrams
      • Generating the HTML prototype
    • Getting started with masters and dynamic Panels
      • The first wireframe
        • The quick and dirty approach
        • The quick but structured approach
      • First masters: navigation systems
        • Global navigation bar
        • Secondary navigation system
      • The first dynamic panel
        • Adding states to a dynamic panel
    • Adding visual effects
    • Adding sketch effects
    • Updating task flow diagrams
    • Practitioners cornerAxure prototyping for mobile devices
      • Mobile-friendly websites and mobile apps
        • Different device resolutions and aspect ratios
        • Using the Viewport Tag
        • Using a full screen browser
        • Landscape and portrait page versions
        • Event and gesture compatibility
        • Browser limitations
        • Using widget libraries
        • Loading prototypes onto the device
    • Summary
  • 4. Interactivity 101
    • Interaction designbrief history
      • The 195060s
      • The 197080s
      • The 19902000s
      • The present, future, and Axure interactions
    • Axure interactions primer
    • Guided example
      • Step 1: Defining the interaction in simple words
      • Step 2: The Axure interface
      • Step 3: Translating this requirement into an Axure interaction
      • Step 4: Annotating the interaction (optional?)
    • Axure events
      • Events triggered on OnPageLoad
      • Guided example: Changing the default landing page
      • Simulating contextual navigation
        • OnPageLoad events and dynamic panels
        • OnPageLoad event in detail
    • User triggered events
      • Guided example: Sign-in
      • Construction strategy
        • Adding the interaction
        • Organizing actions
        • Widget, Events, and Context
        • Widget Events in detail
    • Axure cases
      • Guided example: Construction and interactions
        • Part 1: Construction tweaks
        • Part 2: Adding interactions
        • Axure actions
      • Links actions
      • Dynamic panel actions
      • Widgets and variables actions
      • Miscellaneous actions
    • Summary
  • 5. Advanced Interactions
    • Conditions
      • If-Then-Else
      • Guided exampleconditions and dynamic panels
        • Step 1: Defining the interaction
        • Step 2: Constructing Wireframe
        • Step 3: Setting the first condition
        • Step 4: Adding the first interaction
        • Step 5: Completing the interaction
    • The Condition Builder
      • Guided examplemultiple conditions
        • Step 1: Defining the interaction
        • Step 2: Constructing Wireframe
        • Step 3: Interaction tweaks
        • Step 4: Evaluating multiple conditions
          • Satisfy all or any
        • Step 5: Final conditional touches
    • Troubleshooting conditions
    • Raised events
      • Guided example
        • Step 1: Creating a raised event on the master
        • Step 2: Applying interaction to raised events on a page
      • Nested masters: Amplifying the raised event
    • Variables
      • Guided examplecreating context with variables
        • Step 1: Defining the interaction
        • Step 2: Construction considerations: Dynamic panel or pages?
        • Step 3: Adjusting existing conditions
        • Step 4: Variables and the order of actions
        • Step 5a: Setting variables (and possible snags)
        • Step 5b: Setting and initializing variables
          • Initializing, passing, and resetting variables
        • Step 6: Using variable values to determine appropriate cases
    • Variable types
      • Global variables
        • Axure's built-in variable
        • Create your own variables
      • Special variables
      • Usage examples
      • Local variables and functions
    • Naming variables
    • How variables can help in usability testing
      • Guided examplecontextual usability testing
    • Pros and cons of using variables
    • Tips and techniques from the experts
      • Hiding and showing list elements, by Jeff Harrison
        • The approach
        • Step 1: Creating the row template
        • Step 2: Moving rows together
        • Step 3: Repeating as desired
        • Step 4: Adding controls
      • Keyboard Shortcuts by Loren Baxter
        • High-level Interaction
        • Detailed steps
        • Notes
      • Axure tricks by Fred Beecher
        • Trick 1: Debugging your Logic
        • Trick 2: Passing variable values between pages
        • Trick 3: Hidden link to clear variables
        • Trick 4: Text fields masquerading as text panels
    • Summary
  • 6. Widget Libraries
    • Axure's built-in libraries
    • Axure and community libraries
    • Your own widget library
      • Guided example: Widget library to support prototype
        • Step 1: Create the library file
        • Step 2: Creating a custom widget (lorem ipsum)
        • Step 3: Refresh the library in the project file
    • Expanding the librarydesign patterns
      • Example 1: A confirmation/alert box widget
        • Step 1: Defining the pattern
        • Step 2: Construction
      • Example 2: An incremental search widget
        • Step 1: Defining the pattern
        • Step 2: Construction
        • Step 3: Interactions
    • Managing widget libraries
    • Local masters or external widget libraries?
      • Using RPLIB
      • Using masters in a PR or RPPRJ file
    • Practitioner's corner
      • Why widgets?
      • Pixel-perfect icons
      • Clear widget label and tool tips for extra help
    • Summary
  • 7. Managing Prototype Change
    • From vision to reality
    • Aligning expectations
      • UX and software development models
        • Waterfall
        • Agile
          • Jargon
          • Agile flavors
    • Estimating Axure work
      • Calculating your time
      • Expectation alignment
    • Transitioning from concept to detailed design
      • From vision mode
      • From sketch mode
    • Foundations and scaffoldings
      • Determining the Wireframe width
      • Guides
        • Global guides
        • Page guides
      • The grid
        • Customizing the grid
      • Page templates
        • Page style editor
          • Home page template
          • Category page template
          • Detail page template
    • Widget style editor
      • Default widget styles
    • Style painter
    • Integrating with the project style guide and CSS
      • The style guide
    • To sync or not to sync?
      • Prototype with existing visual design
    • Summary
  • 8. Functional Specifications
    • Collaboration with the development team
      • Aligning expectations
    • Capturing UI specifications
      • Global specifications
      • Generators and outputs: Specifications and prototypes
      • Customizing the Word specifications generator
      • Page notes
        • One note section versus many
      • Annotation fields
      • Annotation views
    • Generating specifications
      • The General section
      • The Pages section
      • The Masters section
      • The Page Properties section
      • The Screenshot section
      • The Widget Properties section
      • The Layout section
      • The Word Template section
    • Summary
  • 9. Collaboration
    • Shared projects
      • The environment
      • Check out/in status
      • Setting up a shared repository
      • Loading from a shared repository
      • The Share menu
        • Creating and loading
        • Updating the entire file
        • Updating a single page or master
        • Manage Shared Project...
        • Browse Shared Project History...
        • Repoint to Moved Shared directory...
        • Clean Up Local Copy...
    • Best practices for UX Axure teamwork
      • Attributes of the UX team
    • Feedback from stakeholdersthe Discussion tab
      • Discussions hosted on AxShare
      • Discussions not hosted on AxShare
        • Step 1: In AxShare.com
        • Step 2: In Axure
        • Step 3: In the browser
    • Summary
  • Index

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