[IxDA Discuss] Axure RP Pro prototyping tool

[Joshua Seiden]

I've used Axure regularly on a recent project, and find it fills a very
specific need very well.

It's very good at producing low- to medium-fidelity annotated prototypes
very quickly. For me, it fits somewhere between PowerPoint/Visio and
Dreamweaver/Fireworks.

It is very well suited for producing moderately interactive, robustly
clickable, non-linear simulations. (These are great for communicating with
our offshore dev team.)

It does not require any technical skill on the part of the user who is
building the prototype. No HTML, no javascript, no VB, no nothing.

I agree with all of the cited limitations:
- the one-click documentation is of limited use. (It's not useless, though.
The annotated screens print out pretty well, and make good meeting support
tools.)
- State management is clunky, but improving in each version.
- Not good for data-driven prototypes

I would add one more: it's very good if you are working with a very standard
set of UI widgets: buttons, pull-downs, grids, check boxes, etc. (I'm using
it to design a client/server desktop app with a standard set of UI
controls.) If you are doing anything that needs custom widgets or richly
interactive widgets, there is little benefit to using this tool.

For the right project and right team, I think it's a good value.

JS

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[mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.interactiondesigners.com] On Behalf Of Jessica
Grann
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 4:03 AM
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Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Axure RP Pro prototyping tool


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Anyone using Axure RP Pro to generate prototypes? I'm evaluating the program
and curious if it's worth the money. I'm really like that you can generate
your functional specs and html prototypes from it with just a click of a
button.  Are there any tools that are better for this?
 
http://axure.com/
 
 
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