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Friday
Nov112011

Wireframe Construction

AxureWorld 2011

Session 4, 18:00 GMT, Noon CT

Panelists:
Mike Blakely (US) and 
Jo Anne Wright (US) 

Masters, Dynamic Panels, iFrames.

Download Mike's file: Mike's File 

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Download Jo Anne's RP Files: Start, Finish

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Friday
Nov112011

Custom Widget Libraries 

AxureWorld 2011

Session 3,  17:30 GMT, 11:30am CT
Panelists:
Pete Karabetis (US) and 
Ari Feldman (US)
Link to Pete and Ari's presentation

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Friday
Nov112011

Advanced Interactions

AxureWorld 2011

Session 2, 17:00 GMT, 11am CT

Panelists:
Nicholas Paredes (US) and 
Jo Anne Wright (US)

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Friday
Nov112011

Designing Mobile Applications

AxureWorld 2011

Session 1, 16:00 GMT, 10:00am CT

Panelists: Ritch Macefield (UK) 
André Muniz (Brazil)
Christopher Roosen (Australia) 

Session Details:
Ritch's session covered key issues and concepts related to:

  • prototyping mobile applications in general 
  • prototyping mobile applications using Axure 
  • prototyping mobile applications using Axperts’ mobile simulator

Ritch demonstrated a simple iPhone App called “Find my Friends” built using Axperts’ Axure mobile simulator, and how key aspects of the “Find my Friends” was constructed within Axure using the mobile simulator.

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Christopher focused on several aspects of usability testing Axure generated mobile prototypes, including: 

  • Determine the required prototype fidelity
  • Selecting the mobiles
  • Tips when creating the mobile prototype in Axure
  • Methods of putting the Axure prototype onto the mobile
  • Recording the mobile usability testing sessions

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André covered:

  • Mobile devices characteristics
  • Constraints when dealing with mobile
  • Portability
  • Axure in mobile prototyping

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Saturday
Nov052011

Nicholas Paredes

Panelist, Session 2, AxureWorld 2011

Nicholas Paredes is a design strategist and architect focussing on mobile. Working across the boundaries of strategy, management, architecture, and design, he has developed mobile and cross-platform products for education, m-health, and e-commerce markets. Currently, he is Manager of Mobile User Experience at Grainger, a global industrial supply retailer, and the 15th largest web e-com property.

Saturday
Oct012011

André Muniz

Panelist, Session 1, AxureWorld 2011

André is a user experience researcher located in Brazil with six years of expertise in mobile devices and interface design.

He currently works at the Centro de Estudos e Sistemas Avançados do Recife (CESAR) in test and design projects related to mobile devices. With expertise in multimedia and user-centered design, he developed jobs for Motorola and Samsung as well as other projects focused on human interaction and digital content. In addition, he also acts as a professor of user-centered design, usability and prototyping in several local educational institutions.

He is a big fan of prototyping activities at various levels and mobile universe, including Android and iOS. Also, performed some jobs related to muse, game design and development.

Saturday
Sep242011

Christopher Roosen

Panelist, Session 1, AxureWorld 2011

Christopher has been living experience architecture, information architecture and interaction design since 2003, after graduating with a Masters of Science (Honors) in Psychology from the University of Canterbury (NZ). He followed this with postgraduate certification in cognitive ergonomics and human factors from the University of Queensland (AUS).

Christopher specializes in interaction design, IA, usability analysis and experience architecture. He has deep domain experience in rich internet applications, real-time systems, mobile applications and process design. He has applied his skills in a wide variety of domains including: end-to-end transactional systems for the telecommunications and financial industries, cutting-edge medical interfaces, and leading mobile applications.

He is an Axure advocate and conducted some of the first Axure training in Australia. He has consulted with some of the largest and most innovative companies in Oceania, including: Westpac, Macquarie, Citibank, Optus, Telstra and News Digital Media. He is also a founder and director of Demibooks Inc. , a global software development company that specializes in software and services for mobile applications and interactive books.

He does blog-like things at christopherroosen.com and can be found in the usual places like LinkedIn (christopherroosen) and Twitter (@chrisroosen).

 

Monday
Aug292011

Michael Blakely

Panelist, Session 4, AxureWorld 2011

Michael Blakely is a leading expert in User Experience Architecture, specializing in world-class design solutions. He works as a Freelance Contractor, creating everything from large scale Website Redesigns to Enterprise-level Web Applications.

During his 15 years experience in the industry, he has worked with many noteworthy clients, some of which are Disney, Cisco Systems, Bloomberg, Ernst & Young and Walgreens. His current work involves designing Mobile Apps using Axure RP to communicate solutions and the User Experience to Clients and Stakeholders.  

Educated at Utah State University, Michael Blakely holds an MSc in Instructional Technology. Mike is an Axure Master and Trainer. A devoted power-user, he is active in the Axure community, contributing as a Beta-Tester and a Technical Reviewer for Axure RP 6 Prototyping Essentials

Link to Michael's: Portfolio  |  Website  |  Linkedin

Monday
Aug292011

Pete Karabetis

Panelist, Session 3, AxureWorld 2011

Panayiotis Karabetis, who people call Pete for short, co-owns Vim Interactive in Baltimore where he oversees the IA and Ux process. Beginning as a graphic designer and front-end developer—and doing time as a baker, bookkeeper and part-time dance instructor—he's hounded by perfectionism on every project to ensure user needs and business objectives can live happily ever after.

His passion for evolving web practices is fueled by an overactive imagination and a one-cup-a-day limit on all coffee products so at least some sleep can be had in between client work.

Panayiotis is the creator of the Social Media Icons widget library and, Team Vim as a whole, is responsible for Axureland, the place where Axure enthusiasts can share free resources with the growing Axure community.

Sunday
Aug282011

Ari Feldman

Panelist, session 3, AxureWorld 2011
Ari is currently the Director of User Experience at Admeld and works primarily on projects in the RTB (real-time bidding) advertising space. Previously, he was the Vice President of Product at TargetSpot, an innovative advertising platform and network for Internet Radio and has over 15 years of experience in Product Management and web production.

Ari is also the creator of WidgetLib, a library of common UI components and patterns designed to facilitate rapid prototype development for users of Axure RP 6.0 and later.

 

Sunday
Aug282011

Jo Anne Wright

Panelist, session 2 and session 4, AxureWorld 2011

Jo Anne Wright is an user experience designer in northern Virginia with 7 years experience.  For the past year she has been an "army of one" at Customink and prior to that was an information architect at Travelocity.  She develops designs for external e-commerce sites, internal applications, and tools.  She has been an Axure user and evangelist for 4 years.  She has worked with distributed teams in Agile development environments, using low-fidelity prototypes to communicate with business owners and developers, and high-fidelity for usability testing.  

Jo Anne made a career change from travel management to human-computer interaction, earning  an MSI from the University of Michigan School of Information.  She is a passionate advocate for the oft-forgotten internal user who typically have to deal with hand-me-down interfaces. 

LinkedIn:  http://www.linkedin.com/in/tallgal

Twitter:  @tallgal

Sunday
Aug282011

Ritch Macefield

Panelist, session 1, AxureWorld 2011

Ritch has worked in IT since 1985 and UXD since 1995. He has a blue chip background – at Data General Corporation he was promoted to be the UK’s youngest ever Senior Consultant. Ritch has a BA (Hons) in Creative Design, an MSc (Distinction) in Computer Science and a PhD (Loughborough) in HCI. His international experience spans 15 countries.

Ritch's UXD strengths are in: Information Architecture, Interaction Design and Usability Engineering. He has published numerous refereed papers on UXD, UCD and Usability Testing, and was on the editorial board of the “Encyclopaedia of HCI” (2007).

Ritch is a UK qualified technology teacher (Cert. Ed), EU approved "IT Trainer-Trainer", and a Fellow of the Institute for Learning (IFL). He qualified as a Master Practitioner in NLP and has a certificate in "NLP Techniques for Advanced Learning and Facilitation". Ritch has also lectured extensively in both IT and learning, at Masters level, in Universities across 5 countries, as well as publishing numerous refereed papers on advanced learning and co-authoring 3 books on IT and education.

Contact Ritch at: www.ax-stream.com

Monday
Jul042011

AxureWorld 2011

Save the date: Nov 11, 2011 

AxureWorld sessions will be live, using the GoToWebinar platform. Once you register for the event (registration will open in Aug-11), you will get an invite with a link, which will enable you to join, on the day of the event.

I'm in the process of planning the sessions, working with panelists (Please contact me if you want to present).

The sessions will be recorded, and added here after the event.

See you on 11-11-11

Cheers,

-Ezra

Saturday
Mar062010

Managing Change With Axure.

RoundTable Synopsis: The only constant in software development in general, and UX specifically is change:  UX practitioners on projects large and small need to negotiate the ever shifting list of  features and limitations and in turn manage deliverables such as interactive prototypes, requirements, specifications and design patterns.

Presentation 1: Dr. Jerry Smith
In this presentation Jerry talks about usability and change issues from the perspective of an IT executive. While not a ‘how to’ talk on Axure it is an engaging and relevant talk that explores cultural differences – within organizations and people that go beyond UX.



Presentation 2: Dhawal Shah
In this presentation Dhawal discusses 3 strategies, their pros and cons, for managing change in large shared Axure projects, including handling multiple releases.


Presentation 3: Andrew Sickorsky
In this presentation Andrew discusses several approaches, their pros and cons, for managing change in shared Axure projects while collaborating with other team members such as visual designers.


Presentation 4: Ravi Singh
In this presentation Ravi talks about embracing change as part of an organization's design & development process, and the role Axure in this process.

Saturday
Oct102009

Axure Tips & Tricks

Saturday
Oct102009

Managing Requirements and Traceability

Saturday
Oct102009

Integrating Axure Into Your Process

Saturday
Oct102009

Ask Axure

Saturday
Oct102009

Shared Projects - Best Practice

Saturday
Oct102009

Managing Visual Design