1. …AND MY AXURE!
HOW TO “BORROW” STUFF FROM OUR UX FRIENDS TO MAKE OUR LIVES EASIER
07 / 16 / 2018

2. “The prototyping and specification software used by 87% of the Fortune 100.”
What is Axure?
Our UX team uses it to make wireframes and interactive prototypes
Can host locally or on axshare.com
Uses the .rp file format
Free 30 day trial available

3. Pages and Components (“Masters”)

4. Notes
Notes can be added at the page level, or for a particular page element (“Widget”)…

5. Notes Fields
…and different Notes fields can be added, removed, moved around, and organized into Sets.
Notes can be of these types:
- Text
- SelectList
- Number
- Date

6. Publishing a Spec
Axure provides the ability to publish specs in various format including Word .docx and we can use this to generate our docs.
It comes with a few different configurations built-in, and you can customize your own.

7. Publishing a Spec
There are numerous options to customize your document:
Which pages/components to show or hide
Change header text
How to display screenshots
Which page- or component-level notes to display, what order to display them, etc.

8. Publishing a Spec
You can also edit a Word template directly (mostly useful for the title page, TOC, and styles).
All the generated stuff just gets dumped in one place, so there are some limits to customization (but it’s a Word doc, so you can always move stuff around afterward).

9. Publishing a Spec Content Model Template & Component Guide
Using different generator configs you can generate docs with different fields from the same data.
Content Model
Template & Component Guide

10. Some Things to Figure Out
Can we use the same files that UX people are using? (easy to get updates, but need to avoid stepping on each others’ toes)
Are there other docs we could generate this way? Could it be helpful for copy doc templates, etc. ?
Some Things to Figure Out

11. Axure 9 is Coming…
Sometime in 2018 (in beta now) – need to figure out if all the above stuff still applies
Free upgrade from version 8

12. Any Questions?