Feb

21

2012

Venue: The Hatton, 51-53 Hatton Garden, London, EC1N 8HN. Map and directions (pdf).

Course timings: 10am to 5pm.

Places remaining: 3

Prices

Date Course Price  
Feb 21 Advanced Prototyping with Axure £450 + VAT
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Date Course Price  
Feb 20-21 Axure Essentials +
Advanced Prototyping with Axure
£750 + VAT
Feb 21-22 Advanced Prototyping with Axure +
Prototyping mobile interfaces with Axure
£750 + VAT
Feb 20-22 Axure Essentials +
Advanced Prototyping with Axure +
Prototyping mobile interfaces with Axure
£995 + VAT

Read more about Axure Essentials and Prototyping mobile interfaces with Axure.

Overview

This is the sequel to our Axure Essentials course. It is designed for competent users of Axure RP Pro who now want the level of skills required to meet many of the prototyping challenges presented by working in the User Experience Design (UXD) community.

Want something more basic? Try Axure Essentials.

"I've been using Axure for two and a half years, learning from tutorials, looking at widgets made by others, and trying to figure out how they work. While I knew about many of Axure's features, this course helped me understand how to apply them to real-life projects."
–Ildikó Balla, REEA.

Printable pdf course description for this seminar

This seminar is aimed at

This course is for those who can already design, specify and generate basic prototypes in Axure RP pro and who now want to learn how to produce complex prototypes by exploiting the advanced features of Axure RP Pro.

You'll benefit from this course if you are part of a user experience design team and need to be able to produce sophisticated prototypes. It is a hands-on course and is most effective for delegates who have day-to-day responsibility for creating prototypes. Typical job titles include: User Experience Designers, Information Architects, Interaction Designers, Usability Engineers and Interface Developers.

You will learn how to

  • Produce sophisticated prototypes, including those suitable for Rich Internet Applications (RIA).
  • Customise prototype specifications.
  • Set up reusable asset libraries.
  • Use Axure RP pro in conjunction with other related software.
  • Use Axure RP pro on collaborative projects.

Pre-requisites

  • Completion of our Axure Essentials course, or an equivalent level of expertise. This means you need to be comfortable with:
    • Using masters in “place in background”, “Normal” and “Custom Widget” mode.
    • Defining widget states.
    • Performing gradient fills.
    • Using image map regions.
    • Using conditional logic (cases, conditions, actions).
    • Producing flow diagrams.
    • Customising annotations and producing custom annotation views.
    • Loading a different widget library.
    • Producing an HTML prototype with custom annotations and page notes shown.
    • Producing a basic MS Word specification.
  • You must bring with you a laptop with the latest version of Axure RP Pro installed.

Axure RP pro features covered

  • Using dynamic panels including simulating animations.
  • Advanced interactions using global variables.
  • Creating and managing custom widget libraries.
  • Collaborative functions.
  • Customising specification outputs including integration with custom MS Word templates.
  • Inserting media files.
  • Using in-line frames and links to external files.

Seminar content in more detail

Advanced interactions

  • Advanced interactions
  • Advanced conditional logic.
  • Using dynamic panels.
  • Examples of real advanced Axure RP Pro projects.
  • Creating 'patterns' using masters.

Using Widget libraries

  • Loading custom widget libraries.
  • Creating custom widget libraries.

Collaboration functions

  • Creating and using shared Axure project files.
  • Tracking revision histories.

Customising specification documents

  • Customising specification outputs.
  • Creating custom specification templates.

Prototyping rich internet applications (RIAs)

  • Simulating animations by moving dynamic panels.
  • Inserting media files.
  • Using in-line frames and links to external files.

Integrating Axure RP Pro with other software

  • Importing and manipulating graphics files.
  • Gaining customer feedback on prototypes using AXShare.

Summary and Wrap-Up

  • Brief review of the key topics.
  • Final opportunity for questions.

What delegates say about this seminar

  • "Their examples stuck in your mind and exercises really did teach you how to use this amazing tool in an efficient and skilful way." – Senior Usability Engineer, The Usability Lab.
  • "I'll be able to apply the material I learnt on dynamic panels and shared projects immediately."
  • "Impressed at the speed of which you can prototype stuff, will be great for showing DV stuff fairly rapidly."
  • "The advanced course had a clear structure and was easy to follow."

What do I get when I book this course?

  • 1 day training course with an Axure RP Pro approved trainer.
  • A pack of training materials including links to online resources.
  • Example Axure RP Pro files to take away and re-use in your own prototypes.
  • A proper, air-conditioned learning environment.
  • CPD-approved course attendance certificate.
  • A 2-course lunch and refreshments throughout the day.
  • A money-back guarantee.

More details on what you get.

Duration

This course lasts one day.

About your trainer

Ritch Macefield

Ritch is a qualified technology teacher (Cert. Ed), a European Union (EU) approved "IT trainer-trainer" and has spent 16 years as a part-time Senior University Lecturer (Associate Professor) in both IT and advanced learning. Ritch is one of only two Axure-approved trainers in Europe and he is able to award "approved trainer" certificates. He is the owner and founder of ax-stream.

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