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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The ultimate guide to UX from the world’s most popular resource for web designers and developers Smashing Magazine is the world′s most popular resource for web designers and developers and with this book the authors provide the ideal resource for mastering User Experience Design (UX). The authors provide an overview of UX and User Centred Design and examine in detail sixteen of the most common UX design and research tools and techniques for your web projects. The authors share their top tips from their collective 30 years of working in UX including: Guides to when and how to use the most appropriate UX research and design techniques such as usability testing, prototyping, wire framing, sketching, information architecture & running workshops How to plan UX projects to suit different budgets, time constraints and business objectives Case studies from real UX projects that explain how particular techniques were used to achieve the client's goals Checklists to help you choose the right UX tools and techniques for the job in hand Typical user and business requirements to consider when designing business critical pages such as homepages, forms, product pages and mobile interfaces as well as explanations of key things to consider when designing for mobile, internationalization and behavioural change. Smashing UX Design is the complete UX reference manual. Treat it as the UX expert on your bookshelf that you can read from cover-to-cover, or to dip into as the need arises, regardless of whether you have 'UX' in your job title or not.

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.