Creative wireframes with axure pro

Axure Pro is a wireframing software tool for web and desktop applications. It helps you to create browser-based prototypes very easily. It designs the functionality, content, and navigation of your user interfaces.

Axure Pro is divided into 6 parts:

Sitemap- A list of pages

Widgets - Here you can find tools for your design, which you can drag and drop to the page you intend to design.

Masters - It's a collection of templates.

Page Area - It's the place where you can make your design.

Page notes & page interactions- here you can add a note for your page.

Annotations & interactions- here you can define interactions such as linking, show/hide element etc.

It's benefits:

You can design creative wireframes to display your workflow.

The client actually sees something a lot before the coding phase and is able to suggest modifications. Hence, you move nearer to the client's expectations even before the commencement of actual coding.

Deciding on look and feel, color scheme, and aesthetics of the UI becomes a lot easier with an Axure prototype with you.

With Axure RP, you can achieve a higher quality design in much lesser time (than you would take with other tools).

It's really easy to use.

Significant Pros:

Ready to Drag and drop widgets onto a grid (as per specefic requirement).

It generates prototypes in a format that behave like real web pages (enables hyperlinking etc.).

Scope for improvement:

Creating hyperlinks for navigating to a page within Axure itself, is relatively tedious. A quicker way to do the same will save a LOT of time.

In conclusion:

I have been pleasantly surprised by the capabilities of Axure RP Pro, as a tool for designing. It has adopted the drag and drop onto grid concept which makes it very convenient to understand and use.

Hope this will help you :)