[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-8-12-":3},{"paginated":4,"total":1934},[5,254,437,691,905,1073,1168,1286,1369,1453,1639,1772],{"id":6,"title":7,"author":8,"body":9,"categories":236,"date":241,"description":242,"extension":243,"featuredImage":244,"mainImage":245,"meta":247,"navigation":248,"path":249,"previewImage":250,"seo":251,"stem":252,"tags":244,"__hash__":253},"blog/blog/publishing-prototypes-multiple-audiences.md","Publishing Prototypes for Multiple Audiences","Axure",{"type":10,"value":11,"toc":231},"minimark",[12,33,36,52,59,132,138,143,154,190,194,197,209,220,223],[13,14,15,16,23,24,28,29,32],"p",{},"Publishing to ",[17,18,22],"a",{"href":19,"rel":20},"https://app.axure.cloud",[21],"nofollow","Axure Cloud"," is a handy way to share your Axure RP prototypes with your teammates and stakeholders. You click the ",[25,26,27],"strong",{},"Share"," button, hit ",[25,30,31],{},"Publish",", and get back a shareable link to the prototype. Bing, bang, boom!",[13,34,35],{},"But did you know that you can publish an RP file to multiple Axure Cloud links? This can be helpful when you want to maintain different versions of a prototype for different audiences, such as your design team, your developers, and your stakeholders. For example:",[37,38,39,49],"ul",{},[40,41,42,43,48],"li",{},"When you're working on a ",[17,44,47],{"href":45,"rel":46},"https://docs.axure.com/team-projects",[21],"team project",", the project is automatically updated on Axure Cloud every time you check in or send changes. If you don't want stakeholders to see unfinished pages or edits in progress, you can publish a standalone version of the prototype to a separate Axure Cloud link and include only the prototype's finished pages.",[40,50,51],{},"You can publish your prototype to a new Axure Cloud link after each sprint to keep a live, working version history of corresponding changes for development, testing, and future reference.",[13,53,54,55,58],{},"Creating multiple Axure Cloud links for a prototype is as easy as re-publishing the RP file from Axure RP and using the ",[25,56,57],{},"Publish to a New Project"," option.",[60,61,62,68,86,99,107,126],"ol",{},[40,63,64,65,67],{},"Open your prototype in Axure RP and click the ",[25,66,27],{}," button at the top-right of the UI.",[40,69,70,71,74,75,77,78,81],{},"Click the arrow next to the ",[25,72,73],{},"Update"," button and select ",[25,76,57],{},".",[79,80],"br",{},[82,83],"img",{"alt":84,"src":85},"","/images/2018/04/publishing-multiple-audiences-1.png",[40,87,88,89,92,93,98],{},"At the top of the ",[25,90,91],{},"Publish Project"," dialog, click the gear button to choose which pages you want to publish. (You can ",[17,94,97],{"href":95,"rel":96},"https://docs.axure.com/axure-rp/prototype-html/customizing-html-output/",[21],"make other publishing selections here"," as well.)",[40,100,101,102,104],{},"Give the project a name that indicates the audience you're publishing for. For example, \"Mobile App (Stakeholder Copy)\".",[79,103],{},[82,105],{"alt":84,"src":106},"/images/2018/04/publishing-multiple-audiences-2.png",[40,108,109,110,115,116,118,121,122,77],{},"Add a password, if you'd like, and choose a ",[17,111,114],{"href":112,"rel":113},"https://docs.axure.com/axure-cloud/basics/workspaces",[21],"workspace"," to publish the project in.",[79,117],{},[25,119,120],{},"Tip:"," It's useful to set up different workspaces for your various projects and/or clients. To learn more, check out this article on ",[17,123,125],{"href":124},"/blog/managing-axure-prototypes-and-sketch-assets-on-axure-cloud","Managing Assets on Axure Cloud",[40,127,128,129,131],{},"Click ",[25,130,31],{},". When the upload is complete, make a note of the link and its associated audience.",[13,133,134,135,58],{},"When you're ready to update the prototype for a particular audience, just publish to the associated project link with the ",[25,136,137],{},"Replace an Existing Project",[139,140,142],"h2",{"id":141},"choosing-what-gets-published","Choosing What Gets Published",[13,144,145,146,150,151,153],{},"You can choose which pages to publish, whether or not to include page and widget notes, and ",[17,147,149],{"href":95,"rel":148},[21],"a few other"," things by clicking the gear button at the top-right of the ",[25,152,91],{}," dialog. You can change these selections on the fly whenever you publish, or you can save configurations that you use often. For example, you can save a configuration for each of your audiences:",[60,155,156,162,173,184],{},[40,157,158,159,77],{},"At the top of the publishing settings, click ",[25,160,161],{},"HTML 1 (default)",[40,163,164,165,77,168,170],{},"In the dropdown, select ",[25,166,167],{},"New Configuration",[79,169],{},[82,171],{"alt":84,"src":172},"/images/2018/04/publishing-multiple-audiences-3.png",[40,174,175,176,178,179,181],{},"Give the configuration a name that includes the target audience as well as the six-digit ID of the Axure Cloud link you publish to for that audience. For example, \"Stakeholder Copy xdsa2w\". This makes it easier to find the correct configuration in the ",[25,177,91],{}," dialog (Step 3 in the previous section).",[79,180],{},[82,182],{"alt":84,"src":183},"/images/2018/04/publishing-multiple-audiences-4.png",[40,185,128,186,189],{},[25,187,188],{},"Save",", and then make your publishing selections below.",[139,191,193],{"id":192},"using-axure-clouds-project-settings","Using Axure Cloud's Project Settings",[13,195,196],{},"Once a project is published, you can also take advantage of Axure Cloud's project settings to further customize each version of your prototype.",[13,198,199,202,203,208],{},[25,200,201],{},"Discussions:"," ",[17,204,207],{"href":205,"rel":206},"https://docs.axure.com/axure-cloud/basics/discussions/",[21],"Axure Cloud discussions"," allow your team to provide feedback on your prototypes. By maintaining separate projects for each audience, you're also ensuring that each audience sees only the discussions relevant to them.",[13,210,211,202,214,219],{},[25,212,213],{},"Plugins:",[17,215,218],{"href":216,"rel":217},"https://docs.axure.com/axure-cloud/basics/plugins",[21],"Axure Cloud plugins"," allow you to include different HTML, CSS, and JavaScript snippets for each version of the prototype. For example, you could include a heatmap plugin on a version of the prototype that you use for user testing.",[221,222],"hr",{},[13,224,225,226,230],{},"Did you find these workflow suggestions useful? Let us know at ",[17,227,229],{"href":228},"mailto:support@axure.com","support@axure.com",". We'd also love to hear how you and your team currently handle audience-targeted publishing for your prototypes.",{"title":84,"searchDepth":232,"depth":232,"links":233},2,[234,235],{"id":141,"depth":232,"text":142},{"id":192,"depth":232,"text":193},[22,237,238,239,240],"Axure Share","generators","multiple audiences","Tips and Tricks","2019-11-14T00:00:00.000Z","Did you know that you can publish an RP file to multiple Axure Cloud links? This can be helpful when you want to maintain different versions of a prototype for different audiences, such as your design team, your developers, and your stakeholders.","md",null,{"src":246},"/images/2018/04/pexels-photo-3182774.jpeg",{},true,"/blog/publishing-prototypes-multiple-audiences",{"src":246},{"title":7,"description":242},"blog/publishing-prototypes-multiple-audiences","su4_TJVGu9JPJcI_McJsjQBNK0-CLzio3Dq2HsB1Tw8",{"id":255,"title":256,"author":257,"body":258,"categories":421,"date":427,"description":428,"extension":243,"featuredImage":244,"mainImage":429,"meta":431,"navigation":248,"path":432,"previewImage":433,"seo":434,"stem":435,"tags":244,"__hash__":436},"blog/blog/avoiding-the-pitfalls-of-agile-with-high-fidelity-prototyping.md","Avoiding the Pitfalls of Agile with High Fidelity Prototyping","Victor",{"type":10,"value":259,"toc":413},[260,273,277,280,283,286,292,295,299,302,305,308,312,315,318,321,324,328,331,334,343,346,349,352,358,366,374,390,393,396,399,402,405,408,410],[13,261,262,263,267,268,272],{},"A couple of weeks ago, we talked about ",[17,264,266],{"href":265},"/blog/the-pitfalls-of-agile-and-how-we-got-here","the history of Agile software development"," and some of its weak points. Largely, these stem from Agile's iterative approach to doing product design in code, which can leave teams without a clear goal when making decisions, planning resources, and driving consensus and understanding. Prototyping at the beginning of a project can help mitigate some of these Agile drawbacks. Prototypes can simulate product features and user experiences at a high level of visual and interactive fidelity, all without code. And prototyping ahead of other development tasks provides teams with clearer guidelines for the rest of the project, reducing technical debt, improving communication, and driving a better final product. We're not suggesting that prototyping solves ",[269,270,271],"em",{},"all"," product development problems, but when implemented early in the project, prototyping can significantly reduce the scope of changes once development begins. Read on to learn how to avoid the top five pitfalls of Agile with medium and high fidelity prototyping.",[139,274,276],{"id":275},"_1-prototyping-enables-better-technical-decisions","1. Prototyping Enables Better Technical Decisions",[13,278,279],{},"Agile methodologies commonly recommend that software be designed progressively and iteratively through a cycle of writing code, showing the product to customers, getting feedback from them, and then rewriting the code. While this is a good way to ensure that the software is user-focused, it can lead to piecemeal code and technical debt. Have you ever started building a piece of furniture and decided part way through to make a change? You then proceed to disassemble as little of your work as possible to make the change. As you progress further, you realize you'd like to add another drawer. Instead of taking the whole thing apart, you put in a couple extra nails and shave a little off the piece. When you're done, it looks great... but you try to move it as little as possible.",[13,281,282],{},"[su_pullquote align=\"right\"]You can gather feedback and iterate on a functioning prototype in the same way you would with working code. This allows you to hash out a longer view of an application's design before asking developers to start writing code.[/su_pullquote]",[13,284,285],{},"Software development in an Agile environment can often feel this way. Because Agile is skeptical of the notion that a cohesive solution can be designed ahead of development, developers are asked to do their best with limited information and to expect change. They may have all the tools and resources needed to build a piece of software, but the less they can foresee what the final product will look like, the more likely it is that getting to that final product will involve a lot of false starts and unstable code.",[13,287,288,289],{},"So what do we do with all of this technical debt? One option is to ignore it. (If you've ever worked on a product with a lot of technical debt, you probably don't think this is much of an option.) The second is to clean it up or rebuild it after the fact. It's an expensive and time-consuming option if there's a lot of debt, but it works. ",[269,290,291],{},"But why not just try to keep debt to a minimum to begin with?",[13,293,294],{},"The idea that you can't make informed, longer-term design decisions is misguided. You certainly can, and it doesn't require an abundance of documentation either. The solution here is to create medium-to-high fidelity prototypes as part of the design process. You can gather feedback and iterate on a functioning prototype in the same way you would with working code. This allows you to hash out a longer view of an application's design before asking developers to start writing code. And because the prototypes represent a more complete goal for the application, developers can work through their sprints with the broader application architecture in mind and code solutions that make sense at both the micro and macro levels. The result? Less debt. Cleaner, more maintainable code. Better product.",[139,296,298],{"id":297},"_2-prototyping-gives-teams-a-motivating-goal-to-work-toward","2. Prototyping Gives Teams a Motivating Goal to Work Toward",[13,300,301],{},"Let's return to our furniture example. Before deciding to buy and assemble your new dresser, you probably saw it in a catalog or showroom. You liked its bare wood finish and the modern design of its handles. You checked its dimensions to ensure that it will fit perfectly between the bed and the window. Seeing the product and imagining it in your bedroom helped motivate you to buy and build this dresser despite the cost, time, and possible frustration of taking on the project.",[13,303,304],{},"Agile doesn't always provide this valuable motivation. Most people want to know what their efforts are contributing to, and they want to know that their work will be valuable and appreciated enough to justify those efforts. When a feature or product is designed iteratively during the development process, and the vision of the future product is deliberately ambiguous, the team lacks an inspiring goal to work toward. Worse, the team can lose faith that a worthwhile result will be reached and become frustrated as people pull in different directions. Aside from the human cost, this can ultimately result in lower productivity and lower quality code, and it can even contribute to developer turnover.",[13,306,307],{},"This Agile pitfall can be bridged by using high fidelity prototyping to iterate, test, and validate a product's design with customers and stakeholders ahead of development. A prototype represents a vision of the product. It is the dresser in the showroom that you can't wait to own even if it takes hours to assemble. Developers can look at it, interact with it, and get excited about building it.",[139,309,311],{"id":310},"_3-prototyping-enables-project-estimates-and-resource-planning","3. Prototyping Enables Project Estimates and Resource Planning",[13,313,314],{},"If diving into development without a finish line is a problem for team morale, it's a disaster for budget and resource planning. When you design a product on the fly as you're building it, it's impossible to predict how much time, money, and people it will take to achieve the business goals. (Is the finish line Sprint 50? What if Sprint 35 uncovers some new requirements?)",[13,316,317],{},"[su_pullquote align=\"right\"]By testing and iterating with prototypes, you can make informed choices about what needs to be built to accomplish a business goal.[/su_pullquote]",[13,319,320],{},"Some stakeholders and clients may be comfortable with unbounded budgets and ambiguous outcomes. Congratulations if you've achieved that relationship with your stakeholders! But even in those cases, businesses benefit from predictability — and frequently demand it. Without it, it's very difficult to have a plan. If you've ever worked in an Agile environment and it felt like management was constantly shifting priorities and abruptly ending projects, this lack of predictability could be the reason.",[13,322,323],{},"Identifying a desired outcome early in the pursuit of a business goal can go a long way toward providing reasonable estimates to stakeholders and instilling confidence. Prototyping is a great way to define the desired outcome before starting development. By testing and iterating with prototypes, you can make informed choices about what needs to be built to accomplish the goal… and what doesn't. Once you have a good sense of the Epics and Stories, you can estimate the time and resources needed to get there.",[139,325,327],{"id":326},"_4-prototyping-eliminates-the-need-for-inefficient-meetings","4. Prototyping Eliminates the Need for Inefficient Meetings",[13,329,330],{},"There's room for a lot of misalignment in software development. Customers have to communicate their workflows and needs to researchers and analysts, who in turn have to parse and translate them into requirements for UX designers, who have to propose solutions to product managers… and so on down the line to developers writing the final code for the application. Each exchange is a chance for misunderstanding and deviation from the goal. Ensuring that everyone \"gets it\" throughout the project is hugely beneficial, if not essential, to reaching a good outcome for all.",[13,332,333],{},"[su_pullquote align=\"right\"]Medium or high fidelity prototypes ensure that you aren't seeing your ideas come to life for the first time when the developer hits \"build\". You're able to answer the big questions in advance and reserve coding time with developers for the relatively quick ones.[/su_pullquote]",[13,335,336,337,342],{},"In keeping with the Agile Manifesto's Principle #4 that ",[17,338,341],{"href":339,"rel":340},"https://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html",[21],"\"business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project\"",", Agile teams attempt to facilitate communication by encouraging as many face-to-face interactions as possible. This has largely manifested as collaborative coding, daily standups, and frequent meetings with high attendance. In theory, these meetings are an effective way to answer business, design, and technical questions, remove barriers, and maintain alignment. In practice, however, they can lead to rushed decisions and turn into a drain on time and morale.",[13,344,345],{},"Let's take a closer look at collaborative coding. On the surface, a product owner sitting next to (or near to) a developer as they code seems like a great way to get product and design questions answered quickly and ensure that you're building the right thing each day. And it can be! But if this process becomes a bandage for not sufficiently vetting an idea before starting development in the first place, we have a problem. The collaboration turns into frustration, and the value dissipates quickly.",[13,347,348],{},"That's where prototyping comes in. Medium or high fidelity prototypes ensure that you aren't seeing your ideas come to life for the first time when the developer hits \"build\". You're able to answer the big questions in advance and reserve coding time with developers for the relatively quick ones.",[13,350,351],{},"What about the highly attended meetings? This mostly happens on teams that have many specialized roles: product owner, product manager, UX research, UX/UI design, front-end developer, back-end developer, devops manager, QA lead, etc. And the Agile way to stay up to date on a development effort is to meet. A lot can be accomplished in those meetings if everyone is on the same page, but a lot can go wrong if even one person is not aligned. Answer: prototyping. It's not perfect, but it is an effective way to demonstrate a proposed solution that just about everyone understands.",[13,353,354],{},[82,355],{"alt":356,"src":357},"agile documentation","/images/2019/10/Replacing_Doc.png",[139,359,361,362,365],{"id":360},"_5-prototyping-provides-the-benefits-of-documentation-without-being-just-documentation","5. Prototyping Provides the Benefits of Documentation Without Being ",[269,363,364],{},"Just"," Documentation",[13,367,368,373],{},[17,369,372],{"href":370,"rel":371},"https://agilemanifesto.org/",[21],"The Agile Manifesto"," is famously anti-documentation (or at least it's commonly interpreted that way):",[375,376,377,380,387],"blockquote",{},[13,378,379],{},"We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value:",[13,381,382,383,386],{},"Individuals and interactions over processes and tools\n",[25,384,385],{},"Working software over comprehensive documentation","\nCustomer collaboration over contract negotiation\nResponding to change over following a plan",[13,388,389],{},"That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.",[13,391,392],{},"In other words, when faced with the choice, you should spend your time building something tangible instead of creating lengthy Word documents that historically became obsolete quickly. Makes sense. While there's no doubt that working software is ultimately the goal, \"documentation\" offers many benefits that shouldn't be written off.",[13,394,395],{},"First, documentation is an effective supplement to face-to-face meetings, chat messages, and emails when communicating with developers — especially if those developers aren't down the hall, as is often the case in our distributed world of software development.",[13,397,398],{},"Second, maintaining documentation for a software project supports organizational memory. (No, I didn't make that up.) It's a way to collect and share all of the knowledge and decision-making that goes into a software product. The \"Who\"s, the \"Why\"s, the \"What\"s, and every other W. This is invaluable for onboarding new teammates and for ensuring that clients, marketing, product support, and other teams can have insight into decisions (and context for those decisions).",[13,400,401],{},"Third, maintaining product documentation may simply be required by your client or for satisfying compliance requirements. This type of software development governance can be especially important for software teams working in finance, healthcare, and government.",[13,403,404],{},"[su_pullquote align=\"right\"]Prototypes can help support organizational memory, serve as documentation for satisfying compliance requirements, and supplement written and verbal communication with teammates and stakeholders.[/su_pullquote]",[13,406,407],{},"That said, mounds of text-based documentation describing flows, interactions, user interfaces, and functionality are rarely considered a great way to convey that information efficiently. Fortunately, prototyping once again offers a solution. If your team uses medium and high fidelity prototyping to design your product, the prototypes themselves (including any past versions) serve as a visual and interactive set of documentation. And because it's a prototype and not production code, you can incorporate notes and documentation in the context of the prototype. Learning about the history of a feature doesn't have to require interpreting paragraph 238 of the PRD.",[221,409],{},[13,411,412],{},"Medium and high fidelity prototyping gives Agile software teams a way to do what Agile does best — build user-centered software through testing and iteration — but without its biggest pitfalls. Agile methodologies have historically pushed for experimentation in code and working software at the expense of all else, but only because the sophisticated prototyping tools we have today didn't exist when the Agile ball first got rolling. But now with the abundance of research, design, and prototyping applications available, we have a better way to design and build software.",{"title":84,"searchDepth":232,"depth":232,"links":414},[415,416,417,418,419],{"id":275,"depth":232,"text":276},{"id":297,"depth":232,"text":298},{"id":310,"depth":232,"text":311},{"id":326,"depth":232,"text":327},{"id":360,"depth":232,"text":420},"5. Prototyping Provides the Benefits of Documentation Without Being Just Documentation",[422,423,424,425,240,426],"agile","agile manifesto","agile prototype","prototype","watersmall","2019-10-18T00:00:00.000Z","Agile's weak points largely stem from its iterative approach to doing product design in code, which can leave teams without a clear goal when making decisions, planning resources, and driving consensus and understanding. Prototyping at the beginning of a project can help mitigate some of these Agile drawbacks. Read on to learn how.",{"src":430},"/images/2019/10/Clear_Road.png",{},"/blog/avoiding-the-pitfalls-of-agile-with-high-fidelity-prototyping",{"src":430},{"title":256,"description":428},"blog/avoiding-the-pitfalls-of-agile-with-high-fidelity-prototyping","2Dd0Yb1Ivl-Ez1eE16JE6V3H-sq2IAIWIM3alWxgiZc",{"id":438,"title":439,"author":257,"body":440,"categories":680,"date":681,"description":682,"extension":243,"featuredImage":244,"mainImage":683,"meta":685,"navigation":248,"path":265,"previewImage":686,"seo":688,"stem":689,"tags":244,"__hash__":690},"blog/blog/the-pitfalls-of-agile-and-how-we-got-here.md","The Pitfalls of Agile and How We Got Here",{"type":10,"value":441,"toc":673},[442,451,454,466,471,474,481,486,490,493,496,499,506,510,513,518,521,528,531,539,545,549,552,560,590,598,609,612,616,630,657,660,663,667],[13,443,444,445,450],{},"Agile is big right now, and it has been for a while. ",[17,446,449],{"href":447,"rel":448},"https://explore.versionone.com/state-of-agile/13th-annual-state-of-agile-report",[21],"The State of Agile report"," received a record number of respondents to its most recent survey in 2018, and Google Trends shows a steady increase in interest around Agile software development over the past 15 years. But you don't really need statistics to tell you that Agile is popular — just count occurrences of the word \"Agile\" in any industry blog or conference schedule.",[13,452,453],{},"And there's good reason for this. When done right, Agile processes can help teams get working software in front of stakeholders early and often, react rapidly to stakeholder feedback, and identify issues quickly so they can be fixed early on — all of which lead to a better final product.",[13,455,456,457,461,462,465],{},"The problem is that in addition to its virtues, Agile also has a number of blind spots baked in to its core practices. Its focus on short, narrowly scoped design and development cycles can make it difficult to define a finish line for projects, which hampers everything from resource planning to application architecture decisions. Similarly, although ",[17,458,460],{"href":339,"rel":459},[21],"the Agile Manifesto's prescription that \"business people and developers must work together daily\""," is not ",[269,463,464],{},"inherently"," flawed, a dogmatic implementation of this principle in the form of daily stand-up meetings or sitting together while coding can end up wasting time and frustrating all parties involved.",[375,467,468],{},[13,469,470],{},"Building and iterating on medium and high fidelity prototypes as part of your design process helps your team understand what the final product will look like.",[13,472,473],{},"Solutions to these blind spots are as varied as Agile methodologies themselves, but the most versatile and widely applicable is prototyping. Building and iterating on medium and high fidelity prototypes as part of your design process helps your team understand what the final product will look like, giving you a picture of the finish line to use for project estimates and architecture decisions. The prototype also acts as a visual and interactive functional specification for developers, which can preempt questions they might otherwise have to spend time getting answered by a product owner or designer.",[13,475,476,477,480],{},"We'll go into more detail on ",[17,478,479],{"href":432},"how to avoid the pitfalls of Agile with high fidelity prototyping"," in the next article, but first let's take a look at how Agile came to be what it is today so we can better understand the roots of its flaws.",[13,482,483],{},[82,484],{"alt":84,"src":485},"/images/2019/09/Thoughts.png",[139,487,489],{"id":488},"the-time-before-agile-physical-engineering-and-waterfall","The Time Before Agile: Physical Engineering and Waterfall",[13,491,492],{},"When the software industry was first stumbling into being in the 1960s, development was pioneering, experimental ...and largely inefficient. Industry professionals had no established production methodologies to follow because they were still figuring out what was needed to build successful software in the first place. Without past experience to draw on, teams were ill equipped to estimate project costs and time to completion, leading to software that was often delivered over budget, over schedule, and lacking key functionality — if it was delivered at all.",[13,494,495],{},"This \"software crisis,\" as it was later termed, spurred the industry to look to other engineering disciplines for guidance. In the 1970s and '80s, the software industry was seized by the idea that building software could be made as predictable as building something like a bridge or a car, and software teams adopted production methodologies from traditional physical engineering and manufacturing to achieve this.",[13,497,498],{},"With hindsight we know how naive this hope was, but you can see the appeal at the time. Software projects had been consistently failing for over a decade, and physical engineering and manufacturing processes promised the reliability of experience, having been refined over the millennia of human history. No longer would software professionals be stumbling blindly forward.",[13,500,501,502,505],{},"Of course, building a piece of software is dramatically different from building a bridge or a car, as we now know, and these borrowed methodologies didn't fully deliver the results the industry had been hoping for. They did help, though. Following a process of carefully gathering requirements and designing a cohesive solution ",[269,503,504],{},"before"," moving on to actual production (coding) enabled far more software teams to successfully deliver products to their customers. This \"Waterfall\" process became the new standard.",[139,507,509],{"id":508},"where-waterfall-failed-software-teams","Where Waterfall Failed Software Teams",[13,511,512],{},"The problem with treating software development like traditional engineering is that it ignored the unique challenges facing software teams. Waterfall worked so well for physical manufacturing projects because requirements were comparatively easy to determine and were unlikely to change during the time it took to complete a project. Likewise, technological innovations for physical manufacturing rarely outpaced production time, so products weren't at risk of becoming obsolete before going to market. Software development, on the other hand, offered neither of these assurances.",[375,514,515],{},[13,516,517],{},"Conducting user testing with a prototype can help you catch missed or incorrect requirements before you send specifications to development.",[13,519,520],{},"Before analysts and researchers had access to tools that let them create rich, interactive prototypes without code, requirements were notoriously difficult to gather. Users can't tell you what they need, only how they work, which tools they use, and what their pain points are — it's up to you to figure out a solution. Conducting user testing with a prototype can help you catch missed or incorrect requirements before you send specifications to development, but early teams often couldn't afford to allocate programmers to create prototypes. Under Waterfall, this meant they couldn't be sure they'd landed on the correct solution until the software had been built and delivered to end users.",[13,522,523,524,527],{},"Compounding this fundamental drawback of traditional Waterfall, businesses and technology evolved rapidly in the 1970s and '80s, and software development often couldn't keep up with changing customer needs. Even if a software team was lucky enough to have built the correct solution for a customer per the original project requirements, the customer's requirements were almost guaranteed to have changed during the time — frequently ",[269,525,526],{},"years"," — it took to build and ship the software. This made it exceedingly difficult to hit the mark with software products, and customer dissatisfaction was rampant.",[13,529,530],{},"Traditional Waterfall, then, failed software development teams in two major ways:",[60,532,533,536],{},[40,534,535],{},"It didn't provide space for teams to gather ongoing feedback from stakeholders to ensure they were building the correct solution for the customer.",[40,537,538],{},"Its unidirectional flow of work prevented teams from going back to earlier stages of the development process to account for changing requirements or new technologies.",[13,540,541],{},[82,542],{"alt":543,"src":544},"Waterfall software","/images/2019/09/Waterfall_.png",[139,546,548],{"id":547},"how-agile-attempted-to-address-the-drawbacks-of-waterfall","How Agile Attempted to Address the Drawbacks of Waterfall",[13,550,551],{},"In the 1990s, a slew of \"lightweight\" methodologies, such as Scrum and Extreme Programming (XP), began to emerge in response to the failings of the \"heavyweight\" Waterfall model. The common theme among them was a rejection of rigidly structured and strictly managed processes in favor of providing software teams greater autonomy and freedom. The idea was that this would give teams the flexibility to revise requirements and designs when needed in order to produce the best solution for the customer.",[13,553,554,555,559],{},"This philosophy was later enshrined in ",[17,556,558],{"href":370,"rel":557},[21],"the Agile Manifesto","'s famous declaration of values in 2001:",[375,561,562,564,588],{},[13,563,379],{},[13,565,566,569,570,572,575,576,578,581,582,584,587],{},[25,567,568],{},"Individuals and interactions"," over processes and tools",[79,571],{},[25,573,574],{},"Working software"," over comprehensive documentation",[79,577],{},[25,579,580],{},"Customer collaboration"," over contract negotiation",[79,583],{},[25,585,586],{},"Responding to change"," over following a plan",[13,589,389],{},[13,591,592,593,597],{},"It's also echoed in three of ",[17,594,596],{"href":339,"rel":595},[21],"the Agile Manifesto's 12 principles",":",[375,599,600,603,606],{},[13,601,602],{},"Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the customer's competitive advantage.",[13,604,605],{},"Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done.",[13,607,608],{},"The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.",[13,610,611],{},"This, along with the push toward early and continuous delivery of working software to stakeholders, revolutionized the software industry. Interacting with working software on a regular basis during the development process allowed stakeholders to give valuable feedback on the direction of the product. Software teams could then respond to that feedback in whichever way they deemed most appropriate since they could now return to any stage of the development process when needed. The result was speedier production and higher customer satisfaction.",[139,613,615],{"id":614},"the-pitfalls-of-agile","The Pitfalls of Agile",[13,617,618,619,623,624,629],{},"There's no doubt that Agile continues to offer these benefits and others well into the present. Respondents to ",[17,620,622],{"href":447,"rel":621},[21],"the 2018 State of Agile survey"," report flexibility and decreased time to market as some of the top benefits of adopting an Agile methodology, and ",[17,625,628],{"href":626,"rel":627},"https://standishgroup.com/sample_research_files/CHAOSReport2015-Final.pdf",[21],"The Standish Group's 2015 CHAOS Report"," lists \"Agile Process\" among the ten Factors of Success for software projects. Clearly something is working.",[13,631,632,633,638,639,644,645,650,651,656],{},"Why, then, are thought leaders foretelling ",[17,634,637],{"href":635,"rel":636},"https://www.forbes.com/sites/cognitiveworld/2019/08/23/the-end-of-agile/",[21],"the end of Agile","? Why are there myriad ",[17,640,643],{"href":641,"rel":642},"https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awww.reddit.com+developers+hate+agile",[21],"Subreddits"," and ",[17,646,649],{"href":647,"rel":648},"https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Asoftwareengineering.stackexchange.com+developers+hate+agile",[21],"Stack Exchange"," conversations dedicated to what developers hate about Agile? Why is Ron Jeffries, one of the original authors of the Agile Manifesto, ",[17,652,655],{"href":653,"rel":654},"https://ronjeffries.com/articles/018-01ff/abandon-1/",[21],"urging developers to abandon Agile methodologies"," altogether?",[13,658,659],{},"The issue is that many popular Agile methodologies exacerbate Agile's inherent blind spots by abandoning the good parts of Waterfall entirely and deviating from the core values of the Agile Manifesto. For all of its weight, Waterfall pushes teams to define a concrete goal for everyone to work toward. This enables better technical decisions and resource planning, and it can inspire teams by showing them what their efforts are contributing to. Agile rejects the notion that this can be done well and instead favors experimentation and iteration in the code. This can make a project feel more flexible, but too often that flexibility comes at the cost of technical debt, unclear timelines and funding needs, and developer confusion.",[13,661,662],{},"The authors of the Agile Manifesto sought to free teams from inflexible, heavyweight Waterfall processes, but in practice Agile methodologies often formalize aspects of the manifesto in process-heavy ways that go against this initial intent. Daily stand-ups, collaborative coding, and other such activities are meant to promote open communication between teammates — ostensibly this is why \"business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project\" — but it doesn't take long to find complaints that these often become frustrating accountability exercises that demoralize the team. Agile is working, yes, but not as well as it could be.",[139,664,666],{"id":665},"the-solution-prototyping","The Solution: Prototyping",[13,668,669,670,77],{},"So where do we go from here? How do we salvage the good bits of Waterfall, address the drawbacks of Agile, and do it all with the least amount of friction? The answer is prototyping. In the next article, we'll get into the specifics of ",[17,671,672],{"href":432},"how to bridge the top five pitfalls of agile with medium and high fidelity prototypes",{"title":84,"searchDepth":232,"depth":232,"links":674},[675,676,677,678,679],{"id":488,"depth":232,"text":489},{"id":508,"depth":232,"text":509},{"id":547,"depth":232,"text":548},{"id":614,"depth":232,"text":615},{"id":665,"depth":232,"text":666},[422,423,424,425,240,426],"2019-09-26T00:00:00.000Z","Agile has been big for a while, but it has a number of blind spots baked in to its core practices. Let's take a look at how Agile came to be what it is today so we can better understand the roots of its flaws and find a way forward from here.",{"src":684},"/images/2019/09/Runner-1.png",{},{"src":687},"/images/2019/09/agile_software.jpg",{"title":439,"description":682},"blog/the-pitfalls-of-agile-and-how-we-got-here","SQxuDjC-LF5GjOAMCf9CdeiQp4CQm8YVagOYguvmWRY",{"id":692,"title":693,"author":8,"body":694,"categories":893,"date":895,"description":896,"extension":243,"featuredImage":244,"mainImage":897,"meta":899,"navigation":248,"path":124,"previewImage":900,"seo":902,"stem":903,"tags":244,"__hash__":904},"blog/blog/managing-axure-prototypes-and-sketch-assets-on-axure-cloud.md","Managing Axure Prototypes and Sketch Assets on Axure Cloud",{"type":10,"value":695,"toc":887},[696,713,724,727,731,736,739,747,767,799,803,808,811,824,829,833,838,841,845,850,859,880,882],[13,697,698,699,703,704,708,709,77],{},"A couple months ago, we added a new feature to ",[17,700,702],{"href":701},"/axure-sketch-plugin","the Axure plugin for Sketch"," that lets you ",[17,705,707],{"href":706},"/blog/new-in-axure-cloud-publish-artboards-from-sketch","publish artboards from Sketch directly to Axure Cloud",". The goal is to make it easier for you to share and manage your prototypes and design assets. Rather than relying on multiple solutions — each with its own publishing and sharing model — you can keep everything in one place: ",[17,710,22],{"href":711,"rel":712},"https://app.axure.cloud/",[21],[13,714,715],{},[25,716,717,718,723],{},"We'll be adding more integrations in the future, including Adobe Photoshop, Adobe XD, and Figma! ",[17,719,722],{"href":720,"rel":721},"https://eepurl.com/qXgtz",[21],"Subscribe to our newsletter"," to be the first to know when they're ready to go.",[13,725,726],{},"But now that you can host Sketch assets right alongside Axure RP projects on Axure Cloud, how do you manage it all? We've put together a few tips and best practices below based on conversations with customers as well as how we use Axure Cloud here at Axure HQ.",[139,728,730],{"id":729},"_1-organize-your-workspaces-by-client-product-or-story","1. Organize Your Workspaces by Client, Product, or Story",[13,732,733],{},[82,734],{"alt":84,"src":735},"/images/2019/09/managing-projects-workspaces.png",[13,737,738],{},"Workspaces are more than just containers that help you organize your projects. They're also collaborative spaces that allow you to share multiple Axure RP or Sketch projects with a group of teammates and stakeholders all at once. (Think about them like shared folders on Google Drive or Dropbox.)",[13,740,741,746],{},[17,742,745],{"href":743,"rel":744},"https://docs.axure.com/axure-cloud/basics/workspaces/",[21],"Creating a workspace"," for each of your clients, products, or stories, then, offers you two benefits:",[60,748,749,755],{},[40,750,751,754],{},[25,752,753],{},"It organizes your Axure Cloud assets in a way that makes sense for your business",", making it easier for you to navigate and find what you're looking for. Organizing by client is great for agencies; by product if you are working on multiple products; or by story if you prefer workspaces to map more closely to development tasks.",[40,756,757,760,761,766],{},[25,758,759],{},"It allows you to share all of the workspace's contained assets — including future assets — with the necessary group of teammates and stakeholders"," in a simple and centralized manner. This means you can spend less time ensuring that everyone has access to each and every new asset you upload: Once you share a workspace with someone, they can access everything in it just by signing in to their Axure Cloud account. And you can ",[17,762,765],{"href":763,"rel":764},"https://docs.axure.com/axure-cloud/basics/workspaces/#sharing-workspaces-with-others",[21],"add and remove workspaces members"," at any time.",[13,768,769,771,772,776,777,780,781,785,786,789,790,794,795,77],{},[25,770,120],{}," Axure Cloud gives you a couple of ",[17,773,775],{"href":763,"rel":774},[21],"user access levels"," to choose from when adding someone to a workspace. ",[25,778,779],{},"Make fellow Axure RP users and design teammates Authors"," so they can publish new projects, edit existing ones, and ",[17,782,784],{"href":783},"/blog/new-in-axure-cloud-build-prototypes-from-sketch-and-image-files","use the Build feature to create prototypes from Sketch and image files",". ",[25,787,788],{},"Give stakeholders and developers Viewer access"," so they can view, ",[17,791,793],{"href":792},"/blog/new-in-axure-cloud-inspect-your-designs","inspect",", and ",[17,796,798],{"href":205,"rel":797},[21],"give feedback on projects",[139,800,802],{"id":801},"_2-use-folders-to-further-organize-your-workspaces","2. Use Folders to Further Organize Your Workspaces",[13,804,805],{},[82,806],{"alt":84,"src":807},"/images/2019/09/managing-projects-folders.png",[13,809,810],{},"This one might seem a bit obvious, but using folders to break your workspaces down into individual client projects or features you're designing for a product can make navigating the workspace more intuitive both for yourself and for the other members of the workspace.",[13,812,813,814,819,820,823],{},"To ",[17,815,818],{"href":816,"rel":817},"https://docs.axure.com/axure-cloud/basics/workspaces/#adding-folders-to-a-workspace",[21],"add a folder to a workspace",", click the ",[25,821,822],{},"New Folder"," button at the top-right of the page. You can add as many folders as you want, and you can add folders within folders.",[13,825,826,828],{},[25,827,120],{}," Do you keep older versions of designs and prototypes around for later reference? Put them in an \"Archives\" folder to keep your workspace clean and avoid confusion about where to find current versions.",[139,830,832],{"id":831},"_3-keep-your-design-files-and-prototypes-together","3. Keep Your Design Files and Prototypes Together",[13,834,835],{},[82,836],{"alt":84,"src":837},"/images/2019/09/managing-projects-files.png",[13,839,840],{},"Storing your Axure RP, Sketch, and image files together can be particularly helpful when handing off to developers. It allows them to quickly go from viewing functional specifications or prototypes to inspecting pixel-perfect design assets (the Sketch and/or image files) with minimal context switching.",[139,842,844],{"id":843},"_4-use-publicly-shareable-links-for-one-off-sharing","4. 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You can ",[17,871,874],{"href":872,"rel":873},"https://docs.axure.com/axure-cloud/basics/axure-rp-projects/#project-password",[21],"password-protect the public link",[17,876,879],{"href":877,"rel":878},"https://docs.axure.com/axure-cloud/basics/axure-rp-projects/#disabling-the-public-link",[21],"disable it at any time",[221,881],{},[13,883,884,885,77],{},"So what do you think? Were these tips helpful? Do you have a different strategy for managing your projects in Axure Cloud? Let us know at ",[17,886,229],{"href":228},{"title":84,"searchDepth":232,"depth":232,"links":888},[889,890,891,892],{"id":729,"depth":232,"text":730},{"id":801,"depth":232,"text":802},{"id":831,"depth":232,"text":832},{"id":843,"depth":232,"text":844},[22,894,240],"Plugins","2019-09-12T00:00:00.000Z","Now that you can host Sketch assets right alongside Axure RP projects on Axure Cloud, how do you manage it all? 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We're calling this upgraded solution Axure Cloud for Business.",{"src":1065},"/images/2019/08/cloud_for_business_blog-copy@2x-3.png",{},"/blog/axure-cloud-for-business-on-your-servers-or-ours",{"src":1069},"/images/2019/08/cloud_for_business_blog@2x.png",{"title":907,"description":1063},"blog/axure-cloud-for-business-on-your-servers-or-ours","ro7J--eFVstbdYP39lQqHAOTuO5nWsNSeRSQnsvkzcE",{"id":1074,"title":1075,"author":8,"body":1076,"categories":1158,"date":1159,"description":1160,"extension":243,"featuredImage":244,"mainImage":1161,"meta":1163,"navigation":248,"path":783,"previewImage":1164,"seo":1165,"stem":1166,"tags":244,"__hash__":1167},"blog/blog/new-in-axure-cloud-build-prototypes-from-sketch-and-image-files.md","New in Axure Cloud: Build Prototypes from Sketch and Image Files",{"type":10,"value":1077,"toc":1155},[1078,1081,1093,1097,1102,1131,1138,1141,1148,1150],[13,1079,1080],{},"To be successful, software projects require the collaboration of professionals across a wide range of skill sets. Differing perspectives and expectations among those professionals, however, can make it challenging to get everyone on the same page. That's why things like mockups, wireframes, and prototypes are so useful: They present the ideas of one person or team in a format that others can easily consume and comment on. They become the shared vocabulary needed to have productive conversations and keep projects moving forward.",[13,1082,1083,1084,1087,1088,77],{},"Axure has always worked to facilitate communication between software professionals through interactive prototyping, and for most of our history, that has meant building prototypes in Axure RP. 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You can assign a number of different triggers to your hotspots — including touch gestures like swiping — as well as screen transition animations.",[13,1139,1140],{},"You can also define fixed header and footer regions on artboards by dragging the handles at the top and bottom of the artboard up and down.",[13,1142,1143,1144,1147],{},"To test everything out, click ",[25,1145,1146],{},"Preview"," at the top of the page.",[221,1149],{},[13,1151,1152,1153,77],{},"We hope that Axure Cloud Build will help your teams communicate more efficiently and more productively. As always, please let us know what you think at ",[17,1154,229],{"href":228},{"title":84,"searchDepth":232,"depth":232,"links":1156},[1157],{"id":1095,"depth":232,"text":1096},[22,894,1061],"2019-07-17T00:00:00.000Z","Axure has always worked to facilitate communication between software professionals through interactive prototyping. For most of our history, that has meant building prototypes in Axure RP. But now with Axure Cloud's new Build feature, anyone can create interactive prototypes from Sketch and image files right in the web browser!",{"src":1162},"/images/2019/04/temp_fast-design-proto.png",{},{"src":1162},{"title":1075,"description":1160},"blog/new-in-axure-cloud-build-prototypes-from-sketch-and-image-files","19oDnVXiFcTplYRFIauheRvZBiXYUf3-GU18_0lZMKg",{"id":1169,"title":1170,"author":8,"body":1171,"categories":1277,"date":1159,"description":1278,"extension":243,"featuredImage":244,"mainImage":1279,"meta":1280,"navigation":248,"path":706,"previewImage":1281,"seo":1283,"stem":1284,"tags":244,"__hash__":1285},"blog/blog/new-in-axure-cloud-publish-artboards-from-sketch.md","New in Axure Cloud: Publish Artboards from Sketch",{"type":10,"value":1172,"toc":1274},[1173,1190,1197,1214,1218,1223,1264,1266],[13,1174,1175,1176,1180,1181,1185,1186,1189],{},"The Axure RP 9 development cycle has seen a lot of big changes to the entire Axure platform, not just Axure RP. For Axure Share, this has meant the transformation of our longstanding prototype-hosting service into a fully fledged cloud collaboration tool tailored to the needs of UX professionals and the teams they work with. The new ",[17,1177,22],{"href":1178,"rel":1179},"https://www.axure.cloud",[21]," is built on ",[17,1182,1184],{"href":1183},"/blog/the-new-axure-cloud","a modern web stack",", boasts an array of ",[17,1187,1188],{"href":915},"new features",", and is now available as a dedicated desktop application.",[13,1191,1192],{},[17,1193,1196],{"href":1194,"rel":1195},"https://www.axure.cloud/download/",[21],"Download Axure Cloud",[13,1198,1199,1200,1202,1203,1206,1207,1209,1210,1213],{},"In addition to the benefits you might expect from a desktop application, the Axure Cloud desktop app allows you to ",[25,1201,707],{},". Now you can share and ",[17,1204,1205],{"href":792},"inspect your designs"," right alongside your team's Axure RP prototypes — whether you use Axure RP or not. And with the new ",[25,1208,1136],{}," feature, you can ",[17,1211,1212],{"href":783},"turn your Sketch artboards into interactive prototypes"," without ever leaving Axure Cloud!",[139,1215,1217],{"id":1216},"publishing-sketch-artboards-to-axure-cloud","Publishing Sketch Artboards to Axure Cloud",[13,1219,1220],{},[82,1221],{"alt":84,"src":1222},"/images/2019/07/upload-sketch-to-axure-cloud.gif",[60,1224,1225,1231,1237,1242,1248,1254],{},[40,1226,1227],{},[17,1228,1230],{"href":1194,"rel":1229},[21],"Download and install the Axure Cloud desktop app.",[40,1232,1233,1234,1236],{},"Launch the app and install ",[17,1235,702],{"href":701}," when prompted.",[40,1238,1239,1240,1114],{},"Log in to your Axure Cloud account and click ",[25,1241,1113],{},[40,1243,1244,1245,77],{},"In Sketch, select the artboards you want to publish and go to ",[25,1246,1247],{},"Plugins > Axure > Export Selection to Axure Cloud",[40,1249,1250,1251,77],{},"Select the artboard project you created in Step 2 and click ",[25,1252,1253],{},"Upload",[40,1255,128,1256,1259,1260,1263],{},[25,1257,1258],{},"Share Project"," to share your uploaded artboards with others. You can invite people to the project's workspace or click ",[25,1261,1262],{},"Enable Link"," to get a publicly shareable link.",[221,1265],{},[13,1267,1268,1269,1273],{},"We hope you're as excited about this new Sketch integration as we are! We're hard at work on integrations for other tools as well, so make sure to ",[17,1270,1272],{"href":720,"rel":1271},[21],"subscribe to our newsletter"," for updates on all things Axure.",{"title":84,"searchDepth":232,"depth":232,"links":1275},[1276],{"id":1216,"depth":232,"text":1217},[22,894,1061],"The Axure Cloud desktop app allows you to publish artboards from Sketch directly to Axure Cloud. Now you can share and inspect your designs right alongside your team's Axure RP prototypes — whether you use Axure RP or not. And with the new Build feature, you can turn your Sketch artboards into interactive prototypes without ever leaving Axure Cloud!",{"src":244},{},{"src":1282},"/images/2019/07/cloud_sketch@2x.png",{"title":1170,"description":1278},"blog/new-in-axure-cloud-publish-artboards-from-sketch","sO2VmihoXSUJY0xaO0R0Bo2JDebcVJW5JgER_hpw3Uw",{"id":1287,"title":1288,"author":8,"body":1289,"categories":1357,"date":1359,"description":1360,"extension":243,"featuredImage":244,"mainImage":1361,"meta":1362,"navigation":248,"path":1363,"previewImage":1364,"seo":1366,"stem":1367,"tags":244,"__hash__":1368},"blog/blog/import-sketch-designs-into-axure-rp.md","Import Sketch Designs into Axure RP",{"type":10,"value":1290,"toc":1354},[1291,1303,1307,1338,1347,1349],[13,1292,1293,1294,1298,1299,1302],{},"Like many of you, ",[17,1295,1297],{"href":1296},"/axure-vs-sketch","we use Sketch here at Axure"," for visual design and asset production. Getting designs from Sketch into Axure RP for prototyping and delivering specs to developers, however, was taking a few too many steps for our taste. Now with our new ",[17,1300,1301],{"href":701},"Sketch-to-Axure plugin",", it's a snap to import those polished designs into Axure RP, bring them to life with rich interactivity, and add documentation for development.",[139,1304,1306],{"id":1305},"importing-sketch-designs-into-axure-rp","Importing Sketch Designs into Axure RP",[60,1308,1309,1314,1330],{},[40,1310,1311,1312,77],{},"Download and install ",[17,1313,702],{"href":701},[40,1315,1316,1317,1320,1321,1324,1325,1327],{},"In Sketch, select the elements you want to copy and go to ",[25,1318,1319],{},"Plugins > Axure > Copy Selection",". (Alternatively, you can copy everything with the ",[25,1322,1323],{},"Copy All Artboards"," option.)",[79,1326],{},[82,1328],{"alt":1306,"src":1329},"/images/2019/06/sketch-workflow3.png",[40,1331,1332,1333,1335],{},"In Axure RP, paste the copied assets onto the canvas.",[79,1334],{},[82,1336],{"alt":84,"src":1337},"/images/2019/06/sketch-workflow2.png",[13,1339,1340,1341,1346],{},"Imported Sketch layers are converted to Axure RP widgets, and the structure of the layers is maintained with RP ",[17,1342,1345],{"href":1343,"rel":1344},"https://docs.axure.com/axure-rp/widgets/groups/",[21],"widget groups",". This gives you an accurate import while still allowing you to tweak designs on the fly in RP as needed.",[221,1348],{},[13,1350,1351,1352,77],{},"So what do you think? Will this improve the way you work with Sketch and Axure RP? Let us know at ",[17,1353,229],{"href":228},{"title":84,"searchDepth":232,"depth":232,"links":1355},[1356],{"id":1305,"depth":232,"text":1306},[1358,894,1061],"Axure RP","2019-06-25T00:00:00.000Z","With the new \u003Ca href=\"/axure-sketch-plugin\">Sketch-to-Axure plugin\u003C/a>, it's a snap to import polished designs from Sketch into Axure RP, bring them to life with rich interactivity, and add documentation for development.",{"src":244},{},"/blog/import-sketch-designs-into-axure-rp",{"src":1365},"/images/2019/04/axure_sketch@2x.png",{"title":1288,"description":1360},"blog/import-sketch-designs-into-axure-rp","7OxxIod_I6Pgq6FAqUmxCFMQ8wCePWYwSlDVdkM_g1k",{"id":1370,"title":1371,"author":8,"body":1372,"categories":1443,"date":1359,"description":1444,"extension":243,"featuredImage":244,"mainImage":1445,"meta":1446,"navigation":248,"path":1447,"previewImage":1448,"seo":1450,"stem":1451,"tags":244,"__hash__":1452},"blog/blog/new-in-axure-rp-9-edit-dynamic-panels-inline.md","Axure RP 9: Edit Dynamic Panels Inline",{"type":10,"value":1373,"toc":1440},[1374,1398,1401,1405,1415,1420,1427,1433,1435],[13,1375,1376,1381,1382,1387,1388,1387,1393,77],{},[17,1377,1380],{"href":1378,"rel":1379},"https://docs.axure.com/axure-rp/widgets/dynamic-panels/",[21],"The dynamic panel widget"," has long been a defining feature of Axure RP. Introduced in version 4, dynamic panels are containers that allow you to build everything from ",[17,1383,1386],{"href":1384,"rel":1385},"https://docs.axure.com/tutorials/basics/rotating-carousel-slideshow/",[21],"image carousels"," to ",[17,1389,1392],{"href":1390,"rel":1391},"https://docs.axure.com/tutorials/complex-interactions/scroll-activated-sticky-header/",[21],"sticky navigation headers",[17,1394,1397],{"href":1395,"rel":1396},"https://docs.axure.com/tutorials/basics/drag-drop-widgets/",[21],"draggable page elements",[13,1399,1400],{},"One of our main goals for Axure RP 9 was to make these powerful and versatile widgets easier and more intuitive to work with, so we made dynamic panel states editable inline, right where they are on the canvas. Not only does this make editing states quicker, it allows you to see a state's contained widgets directly in the context of your full design.",[139,1402,1404],{"id":1403},"the-new-dynamic-panel-workflow","The New Dynamic Panel Workflow",[13,1406,1407,1408,1411,1412,1414],{},"Double-click a dynamic panel on the canvas to open its first state for editing, or select a specific state in the ",[25,1409,1410],{},"Outline"," pane. You can quickly add, remove, and switch between states in the ",[25,1413,1410],{}," pane or with the dropdown at the top of the canvas.",[13,1416,1417],{},[82,1418],{"alt":84,"src":1419},"/images/2019/06/new-dynamic-panel-workflow.gif",[13,1421,1422,1423,1426],{},"Any widgets you add to the canvas while a state is open are automatically added to the state. Everything outside the state is covered by a grey mask. When you want to see only the widgets contained within the state, click ",[25,1424,1425],{},"Isolate"," at the top-right of the canvas to temporarily hide the rest of the widgets on the page.",[13,1428,1429,1430,1432],{},"Reorganizing widgets within dynamic panels has been streamlined as well. Need to move a widget from one state to another? Want to pop a widget out of a dynamic panel entirely? Just drag it into place in the ",[25,1431,1410],{}," pane.",[221,1434],{},[13,1436,1437,1438,77],{},"We hope these changes will speed up your workflow! Let us know what you think at ",[17,1439,229],{"href":228},{"title":84,"searchDepth":232,"depth":232,"links":1441},[1442],{"id":1403,"depth":232,"text":1404},[1358,1061],"One of our main goals for Axure RP 9 was to make dynamic panels easier and more intuitive to work with, so we made dynamic panel states editable inline, right where they are on the canvas. Not only does this make editing states quicker, it allows you to see a state's contained widgets directly in the context of your full design.",{"src":244},{},"/blog/new-in-axure-rp-9-edit-dynamic-panels-inline",{"src":1449},"/images/2019/06/new-dynamic-panel-workflow-hero.png",{"title":1371,"description":1444},"blog/new-in-axure-rp-9-edit-dynamic-panels-inline","8ncvgBi3LLGfpMtn_w_neOI4kH0wAkwWFyxYKh7aXY0",{"id":1454,"title":1455,"author":8,"body":1456,"categories":1626,"date":1629,"description":1630,"extension":243,"featuredImage":244,"mainImage":1631,"meta":1633,"navigation":248,"path":1634,"previewImage":1635,"seo":1636,"stem":1637,"tags":244,"__hash__":1638},"blog/blog/welcome-to-the-new-axure.md","Welcome to the New Axure",{"type":10,"value":1457,"toc":1615},[1458,1461,1465,1483,1525,1528,1535,1540,1543,1553,1557,1564,1568,1575,1579,1587,1590,1597,1602,1605],[13,1459,1460],{},"Now more than ever, shipping software products that win customers requires the combined strengths of business, design, and technology professionals. Keeping everyone moving together toward a shared goal, however, is a struggle that too many projects face. This is why we're so excited to introduce the new Axure platform today. The new Axure RP 9 and Axure Cloud bring together diagramming and visual documentation, UX design and prototyping, visual design and import, and developer handoff onto a single platform.",[139,1462,1464],{"id":1463},"axure-rp-9","Axure RP 9",[13,1466,1467,1468,1472,1473,1477,1478,1482],{},"After an extended beta and tons of feedback from customers, ",[17,1469,1471],{"href":1470},"/download","Axure RP 9 is officially available for download","! For information about upgrading from RP 8 or earlier, visit ",[17,1474,1476],{"href":1475},"/upgrade-to-11","www.axure.com/upgrade",". You can read the full list of what's new at ",[17,1479,1481],{"href":1480},"/new-in-9","www.axure.com/new-in-9",", but here's a breakdown of some of the biggest changes to get you started:",[37,1484,1485,1491,1497,1509,1515],{},[40,1486,1487,1490],{},[25,1488,1489],{},"Navigating the new UI is faster:"," it's been simplified, it's more customizable, and it includes a dark mode so that you can work the way you want. The optimizations extend into the browser as well with a condensed, reorganized, and more performant prototype player.",[40,1492,1493,1496],{},[25,1494,1495],{},"Interactions are now edited inline"," right in the Interactions pane, and the event and action lists can be quickly filtered via a search field. 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",[25,1522,1523],{},"Dynamic distance guides show you exactly where to put things,"," and the new smooth-zoom canvas makes navigating your designs a breeze.",[139,1526,22],{"id":1527},"axure-cloud",[13,1529,1530,1531],{},"Axure Share has been rebuilt from the ground up, with a new UI, a speedy new backend, and a suite of brand new features aimed at facilitating collaboration between product managers, UX professionals, visual designers, and developers. We're calling this new incarnation Axure Cloud, and you can get started at ",[17,1532,1534],{"href":1090,"rel":1533},[21],"www.axure.cloud.",[1536,1537,1539],"h3",{"id":1538},"rp-and-artboard-projects-side-by-side","RP and Artboard Projects Side by Side",[13,1541,1542],{},"Just like always, you can upload and share Axure RP projects and widget libraries, comment on designs, and co-author prototypes with Team Projects. With the new Axure Cloud, you can now also host, share, and comment on artboards from Sketch and other image assets.",[13,1544,1545,1546,1550,1551,77],{},"To publish from Sketch to Axure Cloud, use the new ",[17,1547,1549],{"href":1194,"rel":1548},[21],"Axure Cloud desktop app"," and the ",[17,1552,1301],{"href":701},[1536,1554,1556],{"id":1555},"build-prototypes-in-the-browser","Build Prototypes in the Browser",[13,1558,1559,1560,1563],{},"Quickly ",[17,1561,1562],{"href":783},"build prototypes from Sketch and image assets"," right in your browser. The new Build feature enables you to connect image files and Sketch artboards together with animated screen-to-screen interactions, all with easy-to-use hotspots.",[1536,1565,1567],{"id":1566},"inspect-your-designs","Inspect Your Designs",[13,1569,1570,1571,1574],{},"Handing off your designs is a snap with ",[17,1572,1573],{"href":792},"the new Inspect feature",", which allows you and your team to extract style and layout information from the elements in your Axure RP and Sketch artboard projects. Hover over an element to see redlines, and click it to view style information. You can quickly copy any of the element's CSS or its text content, and you can download image assets.",[1536,1576,1578],{"id":1577},"the-axure-cloud-desktop-app","The Axure Cloud Desktop App",[13,1580,1581,1582,1586],{},"Get all the benefits of Axure Cloud with the speed and convenience of a dedicated desktop application. ",[17,1583,1585],{"href":1194,"rel":1584},[21],"The Axure Cloud desktop app"," includes all the features and functionality of the web app, and you can use it with both Axure Cloud and Axure Cloud for Business.",[1536,1588,907],{"id":1589},"axure-cloud-for-business-on-your-servers-or-ours",[13,1591,1592,1593,1596],{},"For teams that require greater security and user management, ",[17,1594,929],{"href":1090,"rel":1595},[21]," is the way to go. Get a private instance of Axure Cloud with your own domain on our servers, or install your own Axure Cloud server on premises behind your company's firewall. You can also configure your team's user accounts to work with your existing single sign-on service.",[13,1598,1599,1600,77],{},"We sincerely hope that Axure RP 9 and Axure Cloud help your teams work better together to deliver amazing software products. Let us know what you think at ",[17,1601,229],{"href":228},[13,1603,1604],{},"Welcome to the new Axure. We can't wait to see what you'll create!",[13,1606,1607,1610,1611],{},[17,1608,1609],{"href":1470},"Download Axure RP 9"," | ",[17,1612,1614],{"href":1090,"rel":1613},[21],"Sign Up for Axure Cloud",{"title":84,"searchDepth":232,"depth":232,"links":1616},[1617,1618],{"id":1463,"depth":232,"text":1464},{"id":1527,"depth":232,"text":22,"children":1619},[1620,1622,1623,1624,1625],{"id":1538,"depth":1621,"text":1539},3,{"id":1555,"depth":1621,"text":1556},{"id":1566,"depth":1621,"text":1567},{"id":1577,"depth":1621,"text":1578},{"id":1589,"depth":1621,"text":907},[22,1627,1358,1628,1061],"Axure Platform","axure rp 9","2019-04-25T00:00:00.000Z","Now more than ever, shipping software products that win customers requires the combined strengths of business, design, and technology professionals. Keeping everyone moving together toward a shared goal, however, is a struggle that too many projects face. This is why we're so excited to introduce the new Axure platform today.",{"src":1632},"/images/2019/04/smartmockups_juwyre6u.jpg",{},"/blog/welcome-to-the-new-axure",{"src":1632},{"title":1455,"description":1630},"blog/welcome-to-the-new-axure","i6AtKTXJ0n3qrYVkjT5uvm_7teA2Pwp8VAqLBLdY6JE",{"id":1640,"title":1641,"author":8,"body":1642,"categories":1762,"date":1763,"description":1764,"extension":243,"featuredImage":244,"mainImage":1765,"meta":1767,"navigation":248,"path":792,"previewImage":1768,"seo":1769,"stem":1770,"tags":244,"__hash__":1771},"blog/blog/new-in-axure-cloud-inspect-your-designs.md","New in Axure Cloud: Inspect Your Designs",{"type":10,"value":1643,"toc":1758},[1644,1655,1666,1670,1676,1715,1719,1753],[13,1645,1646,1647,1651,1652,77],{},"If you've been spending time in ",[17,1648,1650],{"href":19,"rel":1649},[21],"the new Axure Cloud interface"," recently, you may have noticed a few new features: Project overviews for RP 9 files now include a thumbnail preview of each page; you can make project URLs private so that only workspace members can access them; and ",[25,1653,1654],{},"you can extract style and layout information from the widgets in your designs",[13,1656,1657,1658,1661,1662,1665],{},"That last feature is available in the ",[25,1659,1660],{},"Inspect"," tab of the prototype player, and we're hoping it will improve the way you work with your design and development teams. ",[25,1663,1664],{},"Using the Inspect tab, anyone with access to a project's workspace can view a summary of the CSS, text content, and positioning information for any widget in the project."," This is aimed at making it easier to hand off design specifications from Axure RP.",[139,1667,1669],{"id":1668},"inspecting-your-designs","Inspecting Your Designs",[13,1671,1672,1675],{},[25,1673,1674],{},"Note:"," This feature is only available for RP 9 files. To convert files from previous versions of Axure RP, open them in RP 9, save, and re-publish to Axure Cloud.",[60,1677,1678,1686,1696],{},[40,1679,1680,1681,1685],{},"Log in to ",[17,1682,1684],{"href":19,"rel":1683},[21],"app.axure.cloud"," and click on a project's name.",[40,1687,1688,1689,77,1691,1693],{},"In the project overview, hover over the thumbnail of a page you want to work with and click ",[25,1690,1660],{},[79,1692],{},[82,1694],{"alt":84,"src":1695},"/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/inspect01.jpg",[40,1697,1698,1699,1701,1704,1706,1708,1709,1711,1712,1714],{},"Hover over a widget on the page to see redlines, and click it to view further information in the sidebar to the right. You can quickly copy any of the widget's CSS or its text content, and you can download image files from image widgets.",[79,1700],{},[82,1702],{"alt":84,"src":1703},"/images/2019/04/inspect02.jpg",[79,1705],{},[25,1707,120],{}," If a page's content can change interactively, click ",[25,1710,1146],{}," at the top of the interface to interact with the page, and then switch back to ",[25,1713,1660],{}," to work with the page in its new state.",[139,1716,1718],{"id":1717},"giving-access-to-designers-and-developers","Giving Access to Designers and Developers",[60,1720,1721,1733,1750],{},[40,1722,1723,1724,1727,1728,1730],{},"If you haven't yet created a workspace in Axure Cloud, click the ",[25,1725,1726],{},"Create Workspace"," button (+) in the left sidebar to set up a new workspace to share with your team.",[79,1729],{},[82,1731],{"alt":84,"src":1732},"/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/inspect03.png",[40,1734,1735,1736,1738,1740,1741,1744,1745,1747],{},"Give the workspace a name, and enter your teammates' email addresses in the text box below. If they don't already have Axure Cloud accounts, they'll receive an email inviting them to sign up for free.",[79,1737],{},[25,1739,1674],{}," To add teammates to an existing workspace, click its name in the left sidebar and then click the ",[25,1742,1743],{},"Manage Users"," button at the top-right of the page.",[79,1746],{},[82,1748],{"alt":84,"src":1749},"/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/inspect04.png",[40,1751,1752],{},"After your teammates accept the workspace invitation, they can follow the steps in the section above to inspect projects you add to the shared workspace.",[13,1754,1755,1756,77],{},"As always, we're eager to hear what you think! If there's anything you'd like to see added to help with your developer handoff or if you run into any technical issues, please let us know at ",[17,1757,229],{"href":228},{"title":84,"searchDepth":232,"depth":232,"links":1759},[1760,1761],{"id":1668,"depth":232,"text":1669},{"id":1717,"depth":232,"text":1718},[22,1061],"2019-04-23T00:00:00.000Z"," Project overviews for RP 9 files now include a thumbnail preview of each page; and you can extract style and layout information from the widgets in your designs.",{"src":1766},"/images/2019/04/inspect_promo.png",{},{"src":1766},{"title":1641,"description":1764},"blog/new-in-axure-cloud-inspect-your-designs","lu_v8gmGtniNS7zH0J2DbUd97hlBQJRGjA4FwP0lW2Y",{"id":1773,"title":1774,"author":8,"body":1775,"categories":1920,"date":1923,"description":1924,"extension":243,"featuredImage":244,"mainImage":1925,"meta":1927,"navigation":248,"path":1928,"previewImage":1929,"seo":1931,"stem":1932,"tags":244,"__hash__":1933},"blog/blog/axure-rp-9-launch-pricing-and-upgrades.md","Axure RP 9 Launch Pricing and Upgrades",{"type":10,"value":1776,"toc":1916},[1777,1782,1801,1806,1810,1873,1877,1882,1893,1898,1906,1911],[13,1778,1779],{},[269,1780,1781],{},"If you purchased a license for Axure RP 8 on or after January 1, 2018, Axure RP 9 is already included in your license. 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