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STC Summit 2013 Presentation: Communicating UI Design

On Tuesday, 7 May at 4:00 EDT, I will be presenting at the 2013 Summit conference of the Society for Technical Communication (STC). I will be talking about how to effectively communicate user interface and interaction design to project team members and stakeholders to ensure the delivered product captures the user goals set out at the […]

In praise of page guides

I’ve been working with Axure’s 6.0 update for a few weeks, and so far I think my favorite feature is the addition of page guides.  Page guides make aligning elements so much easier, and since they are standard for most design tools, they were overdue in Axure. The guides are easy to use — just […]

Customizing Widget Tables in Axure

In UI design communication: General approaches and tips for Axure, I discussed the kind of content to include in a UI design specification and showed how to customize the information you annotate in Axure. This post discusses customizing the final specification. While this post describes using Axure to create a specification, the underlying organizational principles […]

Using a Modeling tool to capture UI Design Specs

Karen Bachman has a post out on our sister blog entitled, “UI Design Communication: General Approach and Tips for Axure”  It’s for anyone who has a dread of creating and/or reading design specs for front end systems (e.g . web sites or portals).  I love the idea of using a visualization tool to capture all […]

UI design communication: General approaches and tips for Axure

In my last post, I discussed the value of design documentation. In this post, I share some practical tips on writing design documentation. The first part outlines general approaches. The second describes customizing annotations in Axure. Approaches to communication In my presentation on communicating design, I talk about four types of design documentation: Walkthrough presentation […]

Sharing Axure Prototypes

Perficient UX team members often use Axure to create design prototypes. We prototype varying levels of fidelity based on the stage of the design process and the particular project’s needs, from basic wireframes to advanced interactive prototypes. A generated prototype includes HTML and JavaScript files as well as associated images. If you don’t have a […]

12 Things to Get Your Portal in Production Quicklty: Part 4 – Visualization Tools

Many of you have experienced the wonder of the written word.  You ask a question, the client says something which no one understands, you write it down and everyone agrees to it.  Several months later, you deliver something and it was not what they wanted.  Agile methodologies like SCRUM can get you part way there […]

Creating High-Fidelity Portal Prototypes in Axure

I recently posted about high-fidelity Axure prototypes on our new Spark blog. While the post focuses more on the visual design aspects of Axure, the prototype I created was for a financial services portal and also included a fair amount of interactivity for the purpose of demonstrating the product to potential customers. Axure has sophisticated […]

To Visualize or not to Visualize……

When you start work on your latest project, chances are that you will spend a large amount of time trying to make sure you understand what the business wants.  It will most likely involve mockups of some sort.  Here’s the old way of doing things: Use Visio for a snapshot in time approach.  It can […]