Axure Essentials

Overview

Axure RP Pro is an industry leading tool for rapidly prototyping the web, desktop and mobile software applications, and its use is growing exponentially amongst the User Experience Design (UXD) community. This training is designed for those who have little or no knowledge of Axure RP Pro who want to take their first steps in creating prototypes (wireframes).

The training is provided in conjunction with AXtrainers – Axure's only approved training provider in Europe.

Want something more advanced? Try Advanced Prototpying with Axure.

"This Axure course is a great ramp up for aspiring (or skilled!) UCD professionals to become proficient in rapid iterative prototyping."
–Head of web development, Ecotricity.

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This seminar is aimed at

This course is for you if you are part of a user experience design team that wants to gain expertise in rapid prototyping. 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, Graphic/visual Designers, Interface Developers, Content Writers and Business Analysts.

Pre-requisites

You must bring with you a laptop with Axure RP Pro installed. If you don't have Axure RP Pro yet, you can install a fully-functional trial version for the period of the course.

You will learn how to

• Critically appraise common approaches to prototyping within a User Centred Design (UCD) context.
• Critically appraise common prototyping tools and associated techniques.
• Produce straightforward Axure RP Pro prototypes (wireframes).
• Produce interactive HTML prototypes suitable for usability testing.
• Generate concise prototype specifications in Microsoft Word.

Seminar content

Introduction to User Centred Design (UCD) and prototyping tools and techniques

• Prototyping in the context of User Centred Design (UCD).
• Approaches to prototyping.
• Axure RP Pro vs other prototyping software products.
• Examples of real Axure RP Pro projects.

Understanding the Axure RP Pro interface

• The Axure RP Pro workspace.
• Axure RP Pro core functions.

Building prototypes (wireframes)

• Using standard widgets to build prototypes (wireframes).
• Adding and customising annotations.
• Using design masters.

Adding interactivity

• Interactions and basic conditional logic.

Generating specifications and prototypes

• Building flow diagrams.
• Generating Microsoft word specifications.
• Generating HTML prototypes.

Summary and Wrap-Up

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

What delegates say about this seminar

• "As a previous Macromedia/Adobe user of several years, I find Axure much easier to use than Visio!"
• "I'm finding Axure to be increasingly useful in my work and the course has helped me to get more out of the tool. Ritch and Alan ran an enjoyable session, and their experience as usability professionals gave an extra dimension to what I was learning."
• "Context to user centred designed process was extremely helpful, it was nice to get an overview of these considerations as they were starting to fall out of my brain. I particularly appreciated the helpful information about shortcuts in Axure, the timesaving tips that I would not be able to find elsewhere, similarly knowing that there are open source widgets out on the web that I can go and download will also save me a lot of time reinventing the wheel."

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

This seminar is led by Ritch Macefield and Alan Trow-Poole of AXtrainers.

In-house training

We can bring this course to you and run it for a fixed all-inclusive fee no matter where you are. All you have to do is provide the delegates and the meeting room.