MNteractive’s own Fred Beecher is offering a Basic and Advanced class on prototyping with Axure at the Minneapolis Public Library in October.
They’re $599 each, and if you’re interested, sign up at http://axuretraining.eventbrite.com/
We all struggle with this question at one time or another
Should wireframes contain:
Exact copy?
Images?
Color?
Ben Moore, from Curbly, talks about the need for a project to start with the interface design. All his points are dead on.
In my decade of experience, a website isn’t real to clients until they see some pictures, sketches, something, anything. With this in mind, my goal is to provide initial wireframes (black and [...]
Over at Boxes and Arrows, our own Samantha Bailey reviews Intuitect, iRise, and Axure for documenting interactive systems.
Over at the Frog Design blog Ian Curry digs into the Visual Designer / Information Architect relationship – specifically how to tweak wireframes to make the relationship less contentious via “alternative documentation systems”.
While as Ian suggests, discussing the designer/IA relationship is the yettie form of navel-gazing. Wireframes are their most useful when they tell [...]
In my ongoing quest for the right information architecture wireframing tool – I have to thank TechMeme.com for introducing me to Gliffy.com.
Gliffy is a browser-based, Flash-drive diagramming tool, with the feel of a desktop app (i.e. fast and has both ‘File’ and ‘Edit’ menus). I spent a little time with it today and am quite [...]
One more post and then I’m done spamming this site. Promise.
Axure v4 was released this week. You can download a 30-day free trial copy at http://axure.com/downloads.aspx.
There are some great new features:
Interactions: You can make prototypes respond to MouseOn and MouseOut events
Dynamic Panels: Widgets for which you can define multiple states, triggered by interactions
Masters on masters: [...]
Earlier this week on the legendary mini-list, Mark Wagner asked about visualization tools. Thus reminding me an update to the MNteractive Wireframe post was in order.
I’ve gotten to know both NeoOffice/OpenOffice and ConceptDraw quite a bit in the past 6 months or so. Once ConceptDraw adds nested templates, it will be Visio for Mac. But [...]
On the heels of Fred’s MNteractive debut, “Finally, Rapid Prototyping that is actually rapid”, I’m finally digging into Ruby on Rails and have been pleasantly surprised.
After playing with it for a couple days, the RailsDay.com challenge – build a working web application in 24 hours – seems viable. Rather than making documentation tools closer [...]
People just getting into information architecture (t d) frequently ask me which application to use for creating wireframes. After nearly a decade of making wireframes myself, I still ask this question on a client-by-client basis if not a project-by-project basis.
That answer relies on the answers to 2 other questions:
Is the purpose of the wireframes: [...]