Axure Tip 14: With a little help from JavaScript

Posted in Prototyping | 125 days ago

Get a little extra control over your prototypes by using URL executed JavaScript scripts. With thanks to Jeff Harrison for pointing me in the direction of this ‘hack’

Latency: a real morale killer

Posted in Prototyping | 203 days ago

Over the past year, I have experienced some difficulty using Shared Projects. The server provided to me by my former company had a severe latency issue. Each connection (for instance a simple repo-browser) in TortoiseSVN would take up to 2-4 seconds to perform.

Axure Tip 13: The Word cleanup

Posted in Prototyping | 254 days ago

No specification generation can escape some cleanup in Word. With some attention to the way your Axure document is constructed, it is possible to reduce the cleanup that is necessary. The following checklist should help in using Word features to improve your specification output.

Axure Tip 12: Ordering matters

Posted in Prototyping | 261 days ago

The order in which widgets are placed on the page z-index really makes a difference for several reasons.

Axure Tip 11: Golden rules for a cleaner specification output

Posted in Prototyping | 289 days ago

Just completed a 1 hour presentation at Axureworld on Specification Generation where I gave a brief tour of the Axure specification generator. Fun to do, though a bit more time would have been good. You can download the presentation materials here

These will give some insight into the workings of the Axure specification generator and provide some tips on how to get the most out of it.

Reusing components in the UX design process

Posted in UX design | 401 days ago

Just caught this article on UXMatters on ‘reusing the user experience’.

Some interesting thoughts around component reuse and specification: