Mobile prototyping with Axure 7 / Will Hacker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hacker, Will.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer software--Development.

Computer software.

Mobile computing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (118 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Axure 7

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Hacker Will: 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.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Mobile Prototyping with Axure 7

Table of Contents

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more

Why Subscribe?

Free Access for Packt account holders

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

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

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

5. Adaptive Views

Planning Adaptive Views

Adaptive Views in Axure 7

The Base View

A different view.

Expanding (or contracting) our designs

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

7. Drag-and-drop

Using OnDrag and OnDragDrop events

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

A. Axure and Mobile Design Resources

Online resources

Resources from Axure

General Axure and mobile design resources

Technical documentation

Human interface guidelines for mobile operating systems

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF (ebrary, viewed December 30, 2013).

ISBN:

9781849695152

1849695156

OCLC:

864382364