Over 70 practical recipes to take your wireframing and prototyping skills to the next level using Axure
Create sophisticated prototypes incorporating Axure with the latest web trends and technologies, such as Responsive Web Design, Ajax, PHP, mySQL, and jQuery Mobile
Customize prototypes with Social Media Badges from Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest logos from Apple iTunes and Google Play logos Google Maps Geolocation features, and more
Enhance individual and team productivity with reusable asset libraries and documentation customized for your organization and clients
In Detail
Axure has quickly become one of the leading tools for rapid prototyping in use today. Driving Axures popularity and wide spread adoption is the ability to iteratively develop interactive HTML prototypes of websites and applications. With the AxShare cloud-based service, prototypes are easily shared amongst clients and team members. Prototypes can even be viewed on Android, iPhone, and iPad, appearing like a native application.
This guide provides fast, practical, step-by-step recipes to create your own custom prototypes for mobile and desktop. You can now easily create your mobile-first designs as well as responsive and adaptive web design interactions. Using real-world examples developed from todays hottest technological trends, you can take your skills to the next level!
This book takes you through the latest methods to create Adaptive Web Layouts (AWD) with Axure RP 7 Pro, and create widgets for Responsive Web Layouts (RWD). Prototyping for mobiles will now be easier as you will be able to include jQuery Mobile into your Axure Prototypes. You will learn to connect to Social Media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Pinterest and create ecommerce order checkout flows to make your prototypes come to life. With this book and Axure RP Pro, you will witness increased productivity in your team by leveraging Axure Shared Projects.
You will see how to create custom templates for specifications to impress your clients, create Masters and build your own custom Widget libraries. You will learn to use AxShare to quickly share password protected prototypes with clients and teammates, and explore integrate Axure Prototypes with external javascript Libraries.
What you will learn from this book
Prototyping using the latest adaptive and responsive web design techniques with Axure
Build mobile prototypes for iOS, Android, and Windows devices using Axure and jQuery Mobile
Add social media badges for customer-specific Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest accounts
Connect to Google Play and Apple iTunes Stores using the official Google Play and Apple iTunes APIs
Animate paper prototypes with Axure
Incorporate inline frames with external HTML and CSS
Use YouTube and Vimeo in your prototypes
Work with Open Source Fly Out Zoom for product visualization
Add Google Photo Spheres to prototypes
Leverage Google Maps and Geolocation with Axure
Send data to Salesforce from your prototype
Create reusable custom Masters and libraries
Maximize productivity with AxShare and Axure in team environments
