Advanced Prototyping with Axure

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Overview: Advanced Prototyping with Axure

This is the sequel to our Axure Essentials course. It is designed for competent users of Axure RP Pro who now want the level of skills required to meet many of the prototyping challenges presented by working in the User Experience Design (UXD) community.

If you're less experienced with Axure, try Axure Essentials.

"Although I had significant experience with Axure, I was self-taught and wasn’t structuring my prototypes in the most efficient way. I learned in class how to develop a prototype to extensively use masters so that changes are easily done. I returned to my office and hit the ground running building my widget library."
–Kim Parlengas, Hedberg Data Systems.

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This seminar is aimed at

This course is for those who can already design, specify and generate basic prototypes in Axure RP pro and who now want to learn how to produce complex prototypes by exploiting the advanced features of Axure RP Pro.

You'll benefit from this course if you are part of a user experience design team and need to be able to produce sophisticated prototypes. It is a hands-on course and is most effective for delegates who have day-to-day responsibility for creating prototypes. Typical job titles include: User Experience Designers, Information Architects, Interaction Designers, Usability Engineers and Interface Developers.

You will learn how to

• Produce sophisticated prototypes, including those suitable for Rich Internet Applications (RIA).
• Customise prototype specifications.
• Set up reusable asset libraries.
• Use Axure RP pro in conjunction with other related software.
• Use Axure RP pro on collaborative projects.

Pre-requisites

• Completion of our Axure Essentials course, or an equivalent level of expertise. This means you need to be comfortable with:
  • Using masters in “place in background”, “Normal” and “Custom Widget” mode.
  • Defining widget states.
  • Performing gradient fills.
  • Using image map regions.
  • Using conditional logic (cases, conditions, actions).
  • Producing flow diagrams.
  • Customising annotations and producing custom annotation views.
  • Loading a different widget library.
  • Producing an HTML prototype with custom annotations and page notes shown.
  • Producing a basic MS Word specification.
• You must bring with you a laptop with the latest version of Axure RP Pro installed.

Axure RP pro features covered

• Using dynamic panels including simulating animations.
• Advanced interactions using global variables.
• Creating and managing custom widget libraries.
• Collaborative functions.
• Customising specification outputs including integration with custom MS Word templates.
• Inserting media files.
• Using in-line frames and links to external files.

Seminar content in more detail

Advanced interactions

• Advanced interactions
• Advanced conditional logic.
• Using dynamic panels.
• Examples of real advanced Axure RP Pro projects.
• Creating 'patterns' using masters.

Using Widget libraries

• Loading custom widget libraries.
• Creating custom widget libraries.

Collaboration functions

• Creating and using shared Axure project files.
• Tracking revision histories.

Customising specification documents

• Customising specification outputs.
• Creating custom specification templates.

Prototyping rich internet applications (RIAs)

• Simulating animations by moving dynamic panels.
• Inserting media files.
• Using in-line frames and links to external files.

Integrating Axure RP Pro with other software

• Importing and manipulating graphics files.
• Gaining customer feedback on prototypes using AXShare.

Summary and Wrap-Up

• Brief review of the key topics.
• Final opportunity for questions.

What delegates say about this seminar

• "I've been using Axure for two and a half years, learning from tutorials, looking at widgets made by others, and trying to figure out how they work. While I knew about many of Axure's features, this course helped me understand how to apply them to real-life projects." –Ildikó Balla, REEA.
• "It turned out to be the perfect level for me; I had been through all the video training online, and been hacking together things at work in Axure for a couple of weeks. Ritch structured the lesson well, and was happy to answer as many questions as we had. He left ample time between sections for people to do exercises, and didn't move along until everyone had 'got it', while still giving 'extended exercises' for those who had already finished." – Belle Barber, Geosweep.
• "Their examples stuck in your mind and exercises really did teach you how to use this amazing tool in an efficient and skilful way." – Senior Usability Engineer, The Usability Lab.

What do I get when I book this course?

• 1 day training course with an Axure RP Pro approved trainer.
• A pack of training materials including links to online resources.
• Example Axure RP Pro files to take away and re-use in your own prototypes.
• A proper, air-conditioned learning environment.
• CPD-approved course attendance certificate.
• Lunch and refreshments throughout the day.
• A money-back guarantee.

More details on what you get.

Duration

This course lasts one day.