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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.

Do you have a great idea for a mobile website or an app? Want to turn this idea into a reality? Are you looking for a fast way to test different concepts before committing to one of them? Do you want to present your idea to your stakeholders to let them experience it before development starts? And do you want to showcase it on a mobile device? If you answered any of those questions with yes, this book is for you. Learn how to: - Set up Axure for mobile prototyping - Create responsive web prototypes - View prototypes on your mobile device - Prototype animations and transitions All major mobile platforms (iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Firefox OS and mobile web) are covered. Start prototyping today! And visit www.axureformobile.com for more information.

If you are a user experience professional, designer, information architect, or business analyst who wants to gain interactive prototyping skills with Axure, then this book is ideal for you. Some familiarity with Axure is preferred but not essential.

This eBook provides you with some useful tips and tricks, regardless of whether you're taking your first steps in app design or looking to adopt some best practices from industry pros. To help you broadly position your future app, our authors cover the three biggest platforms: iOS, Android and Windows Mobile. Some step-by-step coding tutorials will take you by the hand, as will exciting new techniques that go beyond the usual. In addition, the eBook features handy cross-platform topics such as prototyping, as well as a field guide to app testing, and advice on marketing your app. TABLE OF CONTENTS - A Guide To iOS App Development For Web Designers - Get Started Writing iOS Apps With RubyMotion - Mobile Prototyping With Axure RP - Creating Realistic iPhone Games With Cocos2D - Mobile Design Practices For Android: Tips And Techniques - C-Swipe: An Ergonomic Solution To Navigation Fragmentation On Android - Windows Phone Design For Developers - A Field Guide To Mobile App Testing - How To Succeed With Your Mobile App

2. Axure Basics-the User Interface; Getting started; Working with multiple project files; The Axure workspace; Customizing the workspace; The Sitemap pane; Wireframe pages; Flow pages; The Page Properties pane; Page notes; Managing notes; Page interactions; Page formatting; Sketch effects; The Widgets pane; Wireframe Widgets; Flow widgets; Creating your own widget library; Third party widget libraries; The Widget Properties pane; Annotation tab; Annotation fields; Annotation views; Interactions tab; Interactions; Events; Cases; Actions; Formatting tab; Location and size; Font.

This book investigates processes for the prototyping of user interfaces for mobile apps, and describes the development of new concepts and tools that can improve the prototype driven app development in the early stages. It presents the development and evaluation of a new requirements catalogue for prototyping mobile app tools that identifies the most important criteria such tools should meet at different prototype-development stages. This catalogue is not just a good point of orientation for designing new prototyping approaches, but also provides a set of metrics for a comparing the performance of alternative prototyping tools. In addition, the book discusses the development of Blended Prototyping, a new approach for prototyping user interfaces for mobile applications in the early and middle development stages, and presents the results of an evaluation of its performance, showing that it provides a tool for teamwork-oriented, creative prototyping of mobile apps in the early design stages.

Do you have a great idea for a mobile website or an app? Want to turn this idea into a reality? Are you looking for a fast way to test different concepts before committing to one of them? Do you want to present your idea to your stakeholders to let them experience it before development starts? And do you want to showcase it on a mobile device? If you answered any of those questions with yes, this book is for you. Learn how to: - Set up Axure for mobile prototyping - Create responsive web prototypes - View prototypes on your mobile device - Prototype animations and transitions All major mobile platforms (iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Firefox OS and mobile web) are covered. Start prototyping today!

Become an Axure Master! Explore designs and interactions leveraging adaptive views, AxShare plugins, repeaters and more!About This Book• Optimize designs for desktop, tablet and mobile viewports with Adaptive Views• Build mastery of Repeater widgets and interactions• Expand Axure's core interactions by using AxShare Plugins with JavaScriptIn DetailAxure garners rave reviews from the design community and is one of the leading tools for rapid prototyping in use today. With Axure one can easily create wireframes and clickable prototypes. Additional enhancements to Axure (e.g. the Repeater widget and Adaptive Views) as well as AxShare (e.g. AxShare Plugins) and the AxShare Mobile App, provide a new level of prototyping excellence.To begin, this book provides you with a rapid introduction to Axure's interfaces and adaptive views and quickly familiarizes you with pages, panes, and the design area. After a brief introduction to Axure, this book will help you to develop the capabilities to build simple to more complex interactive prototypes. This goal will be accomplished with a quick run through of Axure's fundamentals, followed by an exploration of detailed blueprints of different prototypes. From there, you'll walk through creating common interactions for a header, an interactive carousel, right column feed to social media channels, and a footer for a community site prototype. You'll also learn how to build a Content Aggregator, pulling together information from multiple sources and a sample portfolio prototype. You'll learn to incorporate social media feeds from Facebook and Twitter and also build a photo contest for a Facebook application. Towards the end of the book you'll utilize the Repeater Widget to build an eCommerce prototype.This book will exhibit to novice as well as experienced users, common design patterns for exploration and continued learning. Equipped with these new design patterns and methods, readers can complete engaging interactive projects faster.What You Will Learn• Explore foundational interactions for popular design patterns• Construct advanced interactions (i.e. parallax scrolling, etc.) using the default widget library• Expand Axure's core set of interactions by using AxShare Plugins with JavaScript• Construct a reusable Social Media module that includes live feeds from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest• Build a Community Site that includes header and footer masters, and an interactive Carousel• Leverage the Repeater widget to create an adaptive Photo Gallery• Create a Photo Contest with registration for desktop, tablet and mobile viewports utlizing Adaptive Views• Enable an interactive eCommerce Shopping Cart optimized for desktop, tablet and mobile using an adaptive repeater widgetWho This Book Is ForIf you are a user experienced professional, designer, information architect or business analyst who wants to explore common design patterns and enhance your interactive prototyping skills with Axure, then this book is ideal for you. Having some experience in creating wireframes as well as an interest in interaction design and want to create immersive interactive prototypes will be a add-on bonus.Style and approachStarting with the fundamentals, you will create progressively complex prototypes while learning basic, intermediate, and advanced interactions in Axure. You will apply what you learn to create an increasingly interactive prototype.