About prototype design

First, the emergence of the prototype:

> Past software features a single, not much business.

> Now the software features complex, user needs more.

> tap the actual needs of the user.

Reduce communication costs between > Project teams.

Second, the classification of the prototype:

1. Sketch prototype, describe the product approximate demand, record the instant inspiration

2. Low Fidelity prototype, display system's approximate structure and basic interaction effect

3. High-fidelity prototypes, visually and practically close to real-world products

Three, product prototype design tools development process:

1. Hand-painted on the whiteboard or on the papyrus.

Get started quickly, can record ideas or inspirations in a timely manner, can be modified in time, but it is difficult to express the overall software flow and interaction effects.

2. Use the Paint tool.

including using the Windows Paint tool \photoshop Paint \ppt paint \word paint, etc., but not conducive to the expression of interactive effects and presentation effect.

3. Drawing with Visio, Dreamweaver

The operation is difficult, the interaction effect is not very in place.

4.Axure and other professional prototype design tools

In the prototype, not only a prototype design, such as paper and pen can be recorded in the initial ideas and ideas, word suitable for the detailed expression of text, Axure can be used as a way of internal communication, but also can be like users to demonstrate products.

Iv. What is Axure RP?

1. Axure RP is a professional rapid prototyping tool. Axure (pronunciation: ack-sure), representing the American Axure Company; the RP is the abbreviation for rapid prototyping (rapid prototyping).

2. Axure RP is the flagship product of the United States Axure Software solution Company.

3. Axure RP is a professional rapid prototyping tool that enables experts who define requirements and specifications, design features, and interfaces to quickly create wireframes, flowcharts, prototypes, and specification documents for applications or Web sites. As a professional prototyping tool, it can create prototypes quickly and efficiently, while supporting multi-person collaboration design and versioning management.

4. Axure RP can produce low fidelity prototypes and high fidelity prototypes

> Low-fidelity prototype using wireframes to build the approximate structure of the software, the use of interactive effects to express the user's actual operation, the low-fidelity prototype can spend a certain time to express the perfect and clear the actual function of the software.

> High fidelity Prototypes make almost the same effect as the actual results, but it takes a lot of effort to fully express the design concept and the user experience effect.

V. Why use Axure RP?

1. Software prototypes can be produced quickly

2. Good interactive effect

3. Efficient way to communicate

Six, the main user group of Axure RP?

Axure RP users are primarily targeted at experts responsible for defining requirements, defining specifications, designing features, designing interfaces, including business analysts, demand analysts (BA), Information Architects (IA), usability Designers (UE), product managers (PM), it consultants, user experience Designers (UX), Interaction designers (UI), interface designers, and so on, architects and program development engineers are also using Axure.

Axure RP is the flagship product of the United States Axure software solution, a professional rapid prototyping tool that enables experts who define requirements and specifications, design features and interfaces to quickly create wireframes, flowcharts, prototypes, and specification documents for applications or Web sites. [1] As a professional prototyping tool, it can create prototypes quickly and efficiently, while supporting multi-person collaboration design and versioning management.

About prototype design