Axure Tip 11: Golden rules for a cleaner specification output
Posted in Prototyping | Oct 13, 05:09 am
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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.
Session highlights:
- Wireframing for specifications
- Annotate with care
- Improving the template
- What do all those settings mean anyway?
- The final clean up
My golden rules for specification output:
- If you use any element more than once in the project, turn it into a Master
- Interactions are a valuable form of annotation. Break them into understandable chunks to make the specification more readable
- Labelling is key. Everything you create in Axure should be given a meaningful label
- Create the Master’s content at least 10px from the top of the page to ensure all annotation markers are visible
- Prevent bloated annotation tables by grouping similar annotations together in the specification generator
- If there is nothing to say, just leave it blank. Don’t fill up your specification fields with ‘None’ or ‘Not applicable’
- Create your own template by generating a specification with an Axure default then rework the style settings in Word until everything sits well
By Luke Perman
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