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    Mobile Prototyping with Axure 7
    Mobile Prototyping with Axure 7
    Mobile Prototyping with Axure 7
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    Mobile Prototyping with Axure 7

    By Will Hacker

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    This book is a step-by-step tutorial which includes hands-on examples and downloadable Axure files to get you started with mobile prototyping immediately. You will learn how to develop an application from scratch, and will be guided through each and every step.If you are a mobile-centric developer/designer, or someone who would like to take their Axure prototyping skills to the next level and start designing and testing mobile prototypes, this book is ideal for you. You should be familiar with prototyping and Axure specifically, before you read this book.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
    ISBN9781849695152
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      Mobile Prototyping with Axure 7 - Will Hacker

      Table of Contents

      Mobile Prototyping with Axure 7

      Credits

      About the Author

      About the Reviewers

      www.PacktPub.com

      Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more

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      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. Prototypes and Why We Use Them

      Reasons for prototyping

      The RITE way to prototype

      Working smarter with prototypes

      Axure RP for prototyping

      Fidelity decisions

      When not to prototype

      Axure Version 7

      Summary

      2. Mobile Design Concepts

      The pencil is your first design tool

      Context is king

      Knowing our users

      Know the platform

      What platform to target

      Platform distribution

      The network is (mostly) always available

      Content is navigation

      Designing for touch

      Touch targets

      Screen real estate

      Working with gestures

      Alternative inputs

      Location

      Compass

      Accelerometer

      Camera

      Voice

      Barcodes and QR codes

      Mobile-friendly forms

      Serve up the right keyboard

      Making the field fit the finger

      Summary

      3. Installing and Setting Up Axure

      Installing Axure

      Setting things up

      The workspace

      Sitemap

      Widgets

      Masters

      Widget Interactions and Notes

      Widget Properties and Style

      Widget Manager

      Page properties

      Widget libraries

      Grids

      Summary

      4. Building Mobile Prototypes

      Mobile prototypes

      Adaptive Views

      Targeting your device

      Mobile screen setup

      Pages and panels

      Dynamic Panels

      Navigation bars

      Interactivity

      The Case Editor

      Summary

      5. Adaptive Views

      Planning Adaptive Views

      Adaptive Views in Axure 7

      The Base View

      A different view

      Expanding (or contracting) our designs

      Summary

      6. Mobile Interactions

      Gestures

      Swiping

      Using the OnLongClick event

      Building a menu system

      Using conditions and actions

      A loader

      The graphic

      The interaction

      Dialogs and Alerts

      Mobile forms

      Summary

      7. Drag-and-drop

      Using OnDrag and OnDragDrop events

      Summary

      8. Viewing on Mobile Devices

      Hosting prototypes

      AxShare

      Home screen icons and splash pages

      Dropbox and internal servers

      Loading the prototype to a real device

      Summary

      A. Axure and Mobile Design Resources

      Online resources

      Resources from Axure

      Widget libraries

      General Axure and mobile design resources

      Technical documentation

      Human interface guidelines for mobile operating systems

      Index

      Mobile Prototyping with Axure 7

      Mobile Prototyping with Axure 7

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      Credits

      Author

      Will Hacker

      Reviewers

      Svetlin Denkov

      Matt Goddard

      Marina Lin

      Jan Tomáš

      Larry Vance

      Acquisition Editor

      Owen Roberts

      Commissioning Editor

      Neil Alexander

      Technical Editors

      Novina Kewalramani

      Harshad Vairat

      Project Coordinator

      Sageer Parkar

      Proofreader

      Maria Gould

      Indexer

      Monica Ajmera Mehta

      Production Coordinator

      Shantanu Zagade

      Cover Work

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      About the Author

      Will Hacker is a Lead Interaction Designer at GE Capital, where he works on multidevice designs for commercial lending software. He's used Axure for several years as part of his iterative design and prototyping process, and spent two and a half years working exclusively on mobile design, prototyping, and usability testing for Cars.com. He has also written about user experience and mobile design for Smashing Magazine and UX Booth, and is a frequent speaker at UX design events in Chicago. He holds a Master's degree in Human-computer Interaction from DePaul University. He tweets at @willhacker and blogs at willhacker.net.

      No book is ever written by just one person. There are always people working behind the scenes to make it come together. I'd like to thank my editors, Neil Alexander and Neha Nagwekar, for proposing the idea for this book and for guiding it to completion. Thank you for your faith in me. I also want to thank Sageer Parkar for coordinating the project and keeping us all on task. Thanks also goes to my technical editors Harshad Vairat and Novina Kewalramani. Their attention to the small details was invaluable. I also want to thank my reviewers Matt Goddard and Jan Tomáš. Additional thanks goes to my friends and colleagues Svetlin Denkov, Marina Lin, and Larry Vance, who read rough draft chapters and provided feedback and encouragement throughout the project. This book would not have come together without their support and honest critique. Thanks also to Ezra Schwartz, who encouraged me to pursue the project and provided advice and inspiration along the way. And finally, a special thanks to my wife, Kathy, who offered encouragement, patience, and understanding during long nights and weekends at the keyboard. Her belief in me makes everything I do possible.

      About the Reviewers

      Svetlin Denkov is a UX Prototyper at GN ReSound in Chicago, where he builds highly interactive prototypes for mobile and tablet devices. He has used Axure for several years as his tool of choice for building and testing iterative prototypes. He holds a Master's degree in HCI from DePaul University. He is also a local leader for the Chicago Chapter of IxDA, which introduces technology events to the UX Chicago community monthly. He regularly contributes at the Chicago Axure Meetup, and helps others on the Axure forums as an expert user under the name light_forger. He tweets about UX, innovation, and technology at @svetlindenkov and can be reached at www.linkedin.com/in/svetlindenkov.

      Matt Goddard has worked in the user experience / software development industry for over 15 years. Through his company, UX Media, he helps his clients to understand the demands of their products or services on their customer's life and offers them strategies for matching business and customer goals.

      Marina Lin is an Interaction Designer for mobile apps at Cars.com where she uses Axure for prototyping Android and iOS apps. She holds a Master's degree in Information Architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology. She recently contributed a chapter to the textbook Negotiating Cultural Encounters: Narrating Intercultural Engineering and Technical Communication. Her work has also appeared in Boxes and Arrows, User Experience Magazine, and Business Communication Quarterly.

      Jan Tomáš found the beauty of user experience design during his studies at the Czech Technical University in Prague and Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. Currently, he works as a User Experience Specialist at GMC Software Technology which delivers solutions in the field of customer communications management in all over the world. His specialization deals with user research and prototyping. He uses Axure RP on a daily basis for prototyping web and mobile applications to communicate his designs with developers, managers, and other stakeholders. He is also an active member of the user experience community. He organizes meetings called UX Circus Show every month to share knowledge and to show that their jobs can be fun.

      Larry Vance has been practicing UX since 1999. He's

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