[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-9-12-":3},{"paginated":4,"total":1828},[5,214,312,382,542,653,768,845,1283,1600,1627,1672],{"id":6,"title":7,"author":8,"body":9,"categories":201,"date":202,"description":15,"extension":203,"featuredImage":204,"mainImage":205,"meta":207,"navigation":208,"path":209,"previewImage":210,"seo":211,"stem":212,"tags":204,"__hash__":213},"blog/blog/prototyping-for-user-testing-why-its-necessary-and-how-to-do-it.md","Prototyping for User Testing: Why It's Necessary and How to Do It","Axure",{"type":10,"value":11,"toc":188},"minimark",[12,16,19,26,29,34,42,48,51,55,61,66,69,73,79,84,87,91,97,102,105,109,115,120,123,127,133,138,141,145,151,156,159,163,169,174,181,185],[13,14,15],"p",{},"Prototypes are handy as internal deliverables that communicate your ideas visually and interactively. But if that's all you're using them for, you're missing out on the benefits they can offer in the form of user feedback. Conducting user testing with your prototypes is valuable because you can't be sure you have a winning design until you have real data to back it up.",[13,17,18],{},"Begin by making several prototypes to test. This will give you more insight into the various aspects of the workflow solution. If you test just one design at a time, you and your participants won't be able to compare designs in the assessment. Then, based on your results, create a plan that addresses who you need involve and what the test script will contain. From this, you'll be able to identify participants (ideally, real users) and a location. Run your tests, documenting your results in real time. Watching and listening carefully throughout the test will give you insight into the root causes of any problems participants encounter.",[13,20,21,25],{},[22,23,24],"strong",{},"Tip:"," try not to use fake data or Lorem Ipsum text in your tests. The more realistic your data and text, the more your tester can engage with your prototype.",[13,27,28],{},"For even more great tips, check out the eight articles below that discuss the value and the detailed how-to of user testing prototypes.",[30,31,33],"h2",{"id":32},"tips-on-prototyping-for-usability-testing","Tips on Prototyping for Usability Testing",[13,35,36],{},[37,38,39],"a",{"href":39,"rel":40},"https://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2012/10/tips-on-prototyping-for-usability-testing.php",[41],"nofollow",[13,43,44],{},[45,46,47],"em",{},"\"The most effective research techniques involve observing participants doing things and talking about what they're doing. Therefore, the best way to evaluate a new design is to create a prototype and give participants something concrete to interact with and react to.\"",[13,49,50],{},"In this article, Jim Ross, Senior UX Researcher at AnswerLab, offers tips on both prototyping with user testing in mind and the testing phase itself. He stresses how important it is to be careful with fake names, fake data, and generic placeholders. He does a great job sharing how to explain and message the prototype to the test participants.",[30,52,54],{"id":53},"why-you-should-always-prototype-user-test-multiple-designs","Why You Should Always Prototype & User Test Multiple Designs",[13,56,57],{},[37,58,59],{"href":59,"rel":60},"http://www.uxforthemasses.com/multiple-designs/",[41],[13,62,63],{},[45,64,65],{},"\"Visual designers, industrial designers, architects and so on will all typically create and trial multiple prototypes, so why should UX designers be any different?”",[13,67,68],{},"Here, Neil Turner, a UK-based UX designer, researcher, and trainer, explains why it's so important for prototype designers to always test multiple designs. Testing one design against another allows you to spread your bets, compare designs directly against one another, and gather more objective data — not to mention that it's usually more fun. No one gets it right the first time, anyway. Turner also explains how to test multiple designs using comparative user testing and split user testing.",[30,70,72],{"id":71},"you-cant-be-sure-of-design-until-you-bring-in-a-user-to-test-it-24-hours-with-eugene-boey-of-section","'You Can't Be Sure of Design Until You Bring in a User to Test It' - 24 Hours with Eugene Boey of Section",[13,74,75],{},[37,76,77],{"href":77,"rel":78},"https://www.mumbrella.asia/2019/03/you-cant-be-sure-of-design-until-you-bring-in-a-user-to-test-it-24-hours-with-eugene-boey-of-section",[41],[13,80,81],{},[45,82,83],{},"\"One of the most important components of UI/UX is actually having the user test it… I always emphasise to our clients that there are no right or wrong design solutions that we can be sure of until we bring them to the users. Unless the design is a horrible mess.\"",[13,85,86],{},"This interview with Eugene Boey, creative partner at digital agency Section, will show you how one designer plans his day around user testing. It's effectively a case study on how to engage in both formal and informal user testing, how to engage multiple audiences (including formal test subjects and coworkers), and how to leverage user feedback to drive design decisions.",[30,88,90],{"id":89},"how-to-launch-online-usability-testing-of-axure-prototypes","How to launch online usability testing of Axure prototypes",[13,92,93],{},[37,94,95],{"href":95,"rel":96},"https://blog.uxtweak.com/online-usability-testing-axure-prototypes/",[41],[13,98,99],{},[45,100,101],{},"\"UX researchers and designers test prototypes prior to their implementation to a final product in order to prevent any issues which may arise after the final version is launched. There are many diverse tools which can be used for prototyping, one of the best ones is Axure. This tool is also extremely comprehensive and allows you to create interactive prototypes that reproduce a final user experience.\"",[13,103,104],{},"In this article, our friends at UXtweak discuss how you can set up remote testing of your Axure prototypes. The steps that they lay out in the article break down the process of how you'll configure your study in UXtweak and the steps you need to take in Axure RP and Axure Cloud. Like with all UXtweak studies, testers don't need to install or do anything besides clicking on a link. It works on all desktops, tablets, and smartphone devices.",[30,106,108],{"id":107},"how-to-conduct-usability-testing-in-six-steps","How to Conduct Usability Testing in Six Steps",[13,110,111],{},[37,112,113],{"href":113,"rel":114},"https://www.toptal.com/designers/ux-consultants/how-to-conduct-usability-testing-in-6-steps",[41],[13,116,117],{},[45,118,119],{},"\"User testing is a humbling experience for a designer. You might be shocked to find that a user is confused about the way things work. Things that seem obvious to you.\"",[13,121,122],{},"In this Toptal article, Jan Roose, a dedicated product designer who specializes in UX and AI, walks you through the six elements of user testing, from creating a prototype to documenting the results. Roose also emphasizes the importance of a test plan so that you get real results based on the specific workflows you want users to accomplish with your product design. Check it out for lots of good, practical advice with specific examples and metrics new designers can leverage.",[30,124,126],{"id":125},"how-to-conduct-a-usability-test-in-six-steps-from-start-to-finish","How to Conduct a Usability Test in Six Steps from Start to Finish",[13,128,129],{},[37,130,131],{"href":131,"rel":132},"https://uxplanet.org/how-to-conduct-a-usability-test-in-six-steps-from-start-to-finish-4082e8d57858",[41],[13,134,135],{},[45,136,137],{},"\"Amazon's Jeff Bezos invested in usability design 100 times more than in marketing during the portal's first year. According to Bezos, this strategy was the one that led to Amazon's overwhelming success.\"",[13,139,140],{},"Here, UX Planet contributor Sophia Brooke distills the user testing process into specific steps, including a process for correcting issues after you have some test findings. Post testing, Brooke recommends generating multiple solutions and collaborating with your developer team to come up with new designs that address multiple issues simultaneously.",[30,142,144],{"id":143},"a-ux-strategy-is-worthless-without-a-solid-usability-test-plan","A UX Strategy is Worthless Without a Solid Usability Test Plan",[13,146,147],{},[37,148,149],{"href":149,"rel":150},"https://hub.packtpub.com/a-ux-strategy-is-worthless-without-a-solid-usability-test-plan/",[41],[13,152,153],{},[45,154,155],{},"\"Testing with users is not only about making their experience better; it is also about getting more people to use your product. People will not use a product that they do not find useful, and they will choose the product that is most enjoyable and usable if they have options.\"",[13,157,158],{},"This article from Sugandha Lahoti, Content Marketing Editor at Packt Hub, is built around a detailed discussion of how to plan and execute a usability test, including useful sample scripts and considerations for recruiting participants. As planning the questions you will ask during the test is a critical component of test planning, don't skip this article.",[30,160,162],{"id":161},"starting-with-user-experience-how-to-run-a-usability-test","Starting with User Experience: How to Run a Usability Test",[13,164,165],{},[37,166,167],{"href":167,"rel":168},"https://www.skyword.com/contentstandard/marketing/starting-with-user-experience-how-to-run-a-usability-test/",[41],[13,170,171],{},[45,172,173],{},"\"…user experience design has become a hot topic among marketers. When done correctly, UX testing can force your team to approach your brand from the perspective of an audience member.\"",[13,175,176,177],{},"Though not targeted directly to prototype designers, this article from writer, editor, and marketer Kyle Harper focuses on how marketing professionals should consider UX testing to really understand users' emotions and intentions. If you aren't a UX professional and just want a high-level overview of the components of a UX test, this is a good place to start. For an online usability testing platform with an Axure integration, check out ",[37,178,180],{"href":95,"rel":179},[41],"UX Tweaks.",[30,182,184],{"id":183},"putting-it-all-together","Putting It All Together",[13,186,187],{},"Conducting UX usability tests with real users is an important component of a great design process. Yes, it takes time and concerted planning to pull it together. But the reward at the end will be a great design with concrete data backing it up - and that's a worthwhile trade for any business.",{"title":189,"searchDepth":190,"depth":190,"links":191},"",2,[192,193,194,195,196,197,198,199,200],{"id":32,"depth":190,"text":33},{"id":53,"depth":190,"text":54},{"id":71,"depth":190,"text":72},{"id":89,"depth":190,"text":90},{"id":107,"depth":190,"text":108},{"id":125,"depth":190,"text":126},{"id":143,"depth":190,"text":144},{"id":161,"depth":190,"text":162},{"id":183,"depth":190,"text":184},[],"2019-04-01T00:00:00.000Z","md",null,{"src":206},"/images/2019/05/wc6mj0krzgw.jpg",{},true,"/blog/prototyping-for-user-testing-why-its-necessary-and-how-to-do-it",{"src":206},{"title":7,"description":15},"blog/prototyping-for-user-testing-why-its-necessary-and-how-to-do-it","UIB2rol0XF-hnjhqmqcWbhY4PshzjThlfpeZdJrisoE",{"id":215,"title":216,"author":8,"body":217,"categories":298,"date":302,"description":303,"extension":203,"featuredImage":204,"mainImage":304,"meta":305,"navigation":208,"path":306,"previewImage":307,"seo":309,"stem":310,"tags":204,"__hash__":311},"blog/blog/new-in-axure-rp-9-dark-mode.md","Check Out in Axure RP: Dark Mode",{"type":10,"value":218,"toc":296},[219,225,228,231,246,253,272,288],[13,220,221],{},[222,223],"img",{"alt":189,"src":224},"/images/2018/11/dark_mode@2x-2-1.png",[13,226,227],{},"Axure RP's UI has gone through some major changes for version 9, each intended to make your workflows a little easier and a little speedier. Thanks to customer feedback, we've improved on inline editing, interaction building, and more. Today, we're introducing one of the most requested enhancements: a dark UI mode to complement dark mode on the latest macOS and Windows operating systems.",[13,229,230],{},"To give dark mode a try, open Axure RP's application preferences menu:",[13,232,233,236,237,240,242,243],{},[22,234,235],{},">"," On Windows, go to ",[22,238,239],{},"File > Preferences",[22,241,235],{}," On Mac, go to ",[22,244,245],{},"Axure RP 9 Beta > Preferences",[13,247,248,249],{},"[su_row]",[250,251,252],"span",{},"su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"no\" class=\"\"",[13,254,255,256,259,260,263,264,267,268,271],{},"Then select ",[22,257,258],{},"Dark Mode"," in the ",[22,261,262],{},"Appearance"," dropdown on the ",[22,265,266],{},"General"," tab. Mac users may also select ",[22,269,270],{},"Use System Setting"," to have Axure RP match the operating system's UI settings.",[13,273,274,277,278,280,283,277,285],{},[250,275,276],{},"/su_column"," ",[250,279,252],{},[222,281],{"alt":189,"src":282},"/images/2018/11/dark-mode-application-preferences.png",[250,284,276],{},[250,286,287],{},"/su_row",[13,289,290,291,295],{},"We're excited to hear your feedback! Let us know what you think about dark mode and the rest of Axure RP 9 at ",[37,292,294],{"href":293},"mailto:support@axure.com","support@axure.com",".",{"title":189,"searchDepth":190,"depth":190,"links":297},[],[299,300,301],"Axure RP","dark mode","What's New","2018-11-28T00:00:00.000Z","Thanks to customer feedback, we've improved on inline editing, interaction building, and more since the initial RP 9 Beta release. Today, we're introducing one of the most requested enhancements: a dark UI mode to complement dark mode on the latest macOS and Windows operating systems.",{"src":204},{},"/blog/new-in-axure-rp-9-dark-mode",{"src":308},"/images/2019/04/temp_blog-content.jpg",{"title":216,"description":303},"blog/new-in-axure-rp-9-dark-mode","XskZp_J0EW8YlMuNVb1Gb_NxCl-_um0zdfpGcfAOqWc",{"id":313,"title":314,"author":8,"body":315,"categories":371,"date":302,"description":373,"extension":203,"featuredImage":204,"mainImage":374,"meta":375,"navigation":208,"path":376,"previewImage":377,"seo":379,"stem":380,"tags":204,"__hash__":381},"blog/blog/the-new-axure-cloud.md","The New Axure Cloud",{"type":10,"value":316,"toc":369},[317,320,333,342,351,364],[13,318,319],{},"Our goal for Axure RP 9 was to modernize Axure RP's workflows, capabilities, and interface. Nearly every area of the tool has been touched to make prototyping in Axure RP more efficient and intuitive.",[13,321,322,323,277,326,295],{},"With that same goal in mind, we've also made some big changes to Axure Share. If you haven't already seen them, we'd like to invite you to ",[22,324,325],{},"check out the new Axure Cloud at",[37,327,330],{"href":328,"rel":329},"https://app.axure.cloud",[41],[22,331,332],{},"app.axure.cloud",[13,334,335,336,341],{},"The first thing you'll see is the new UI, which was cleaned up to make workspace navigation easier. But as you navigate around a bit, you should also notice that the screens load significantly faster. We've built Axure Cloud to be a single page application (SPA), powered by ",[37,337,340],{"href":338,"rel":339},"https://vuejs.org/",[41],"Vue.js",". This allows Axure Cloud to update only the parts of the page that need to change from one screen to the next rather than constantly loading entirely new HTML pages.",[13,343,344,345,350],{},"Additionally, Axure Cloud's backend has been upgraded to ",[37,346,349],{"href":347,"rel":348},"https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/",[41],"Microsoft's new ASP.NET Core",", a high performance framework for modern cloud applications. We've also switched to container-based deployment to support more frequent and reliable updates.",[13,352,353,354,277,357,295],{},"While a lot has changed, the most important things have stayed the same: The URLs for your published prototypes haven't changed, nor has the experience of viewing a prototype in your web browser. Further, ",[22,355,356],{},"you can switch back to the older Axure Share interface at any time by going to",[37,358,361],{"href":359,"rel":360},"https://share.axure.com",[41],[22,362,363],{},"share.axure.com",[13,365,366,367,295],{},"As always, we'd love to hear what you think! Feel free to shoot us an email at ",[37,368,294],{"href":293},{"title":189,"searchDepth":190,"depth":190,"links":370},[],[372,301],"Axure Cloud","Our goal for Axure RP 9 was to modernize Axure RP's workflows, capabilities, and interface. Nearly every area of the tool has been touched to make prototyping in Axure RP more efficient and intuitive. With that same goal in mind, we've also made some big changes to Axure Share.",{"src":204},{},"/blog/the-new-axure-cloud",{"src":378},"/images/2018/11/axure-cloud@2x.png",{"title":314,"description":373},"blog/the-new-axure-cloud","1eDxTYEMmsRQ8blUO18sE5wq9m7JoWmN-_1Me7iFX0k",{"id":383,"title":384,"author":8,"body":385,"categories":531,"date":532,"description":533,"extension":203,"featuredImage":204,"mainImage":534,"meta":535,"navigation":208,"path":536,"previewImage":537,"seo":539,"stem":540,"tags":204,"__hash__":541},"blog/blog/new-in-axure-rp-9-building-interactions-inline.md","New in Axure RP 9: Building Interactions Inline",{"type":10,"value":386,"toc":526},[387,399,403,418,423,426,431,441,446,450,470,475,482,487,491,500,505,518,521],[13,388,389,390,395,396,295],{},"One of our main goals for Axure RP 9 was to make ",[37,391,394],{"href":392,"rel":393},"https://docs.axure.com/axure-rp/interactions/events-cases-actions/",[41],"interactions"," simpler, speedier, and more approachable for both new and experienced users. After a lot of internal testing and tons of feedback from beta testers, we think we've achieved that goal with the ",[22,397,398],{},"new interactions workflow",[30,400,402],{"id":401},"building-interactions-inline","Building Interactions Inline",[13,404,405,406,409,410,413,414,417],{},"The new ",[22,407,408],{},"Interactions"," pane includes an interface for building interactions right in the pane itself. To get started, select a widget and click ",[22,411,412],{},"New Interaction"," or one of the widget-specific ",[22,415,416],{},"Common Interactions"," shortcuts.",[13,419,420],{},[222,421],{"alt":189,"src":422},"/images/2018/09/new-ix-workflow1.png",[13,424,425],{},"From this point forward, the workflow is largely the same as in previous versions of Axure RP: Select the event you want to work with and add actions to it. To find the items you want more quickly, use the search field at the top of the event and action lists.",[13,427,428],{},[222,429],{"alt":189,"src":430},"/images/2018/09/new-ix-workflow2.png",[13,432,433,434,437,438,295],{},"Once an event is set up, you can click the \"+\" ",[22,435,436],{},"Insert Action"," icon at the bottom of the event's block to add more actions to it. To add additional targets to an individual action, hover over the action's name and click ",[22,439,440],{},"Add Target",[13,442,443],{},[222,444],{"alt":189,"src":445},"/images/2018/09/new-ix-workflow3.png",[30,447,449],{"id":448},"enabling-cases","Enabling Cases",[13,451,452,453,458,459,461,462,465,466,469],{},"Event cases are hidden in RP 9 until you need them. When you need to add ",[37,454,457],{"href":455,"rel":456},"https://docs.axure.com/axure-rp/interactions/conditional-logic/",[41],"conditional logic"," or additional cases to a page or widget event, hover over the event's name in the ",[22,460,408],{}," pane or ",[22,463,464],{},"Interaction Editor"," dialog and click ",[22,467,468],{},"Enable Cases",". This will expose the event's first case and allow you to add logic to it.",[13,471,472],{},[222,473],{"alt":189,"src":474},"/images/2018/09/new-ix-workflow4.png",[13,476,477,478,481],{},"To add more cases to the event after the first case is exposed, hover over the case's name and click ",[22,479,480],{},"Add Case",". Cases are color-coded for easy differentiation.",[13,483,484],{},[222,485],{"alt":189,"src":486},"/images/2018/09/new-ix-workflow5.png",[30,488,490],{"id":489},"a-more-powerful-interaction-editor-dialog","A More Powerful Interaction Editor Dialog",[13,492,493,494,496,497,499],{},"When you need more space to work on complex interactions, click the window icon in the lower right corner of the ",[22,495,408],{}," pane or double-click any existing event, case, or action to open the ",[22,498,464],{}," dialog.",[13,501,502],{},[222,503],{"alt":189,"src":504},"/images/2018/09/new-ix-workflow6.png",[13,506,405,507,509,510,513,514,517],{},[22,508,464],{}," dialog is organized similarly to the ",[22,511,512],{},"Case Editor"," of previous versions of Axure RP, but it allows you to edit ",[45,515,516],{},"all"," of the selected widget's events, cases, and actions without switching contexts!",[519,520],"hr",{},[13,522,523,524,295],{},"We hope you enjoy the new interaction workflow as much as we do! Let us know what you think at ",[37,525,294],{"href":293},{"title":189,"searchDepth":190,"depth":190,"links":527},[528,529,530],{"id":401,"depth":190,"text":402},{"id":448,"depth":190,"text":449},{"id":489,"depth":190,"text":490},[299,301],"2018-09-05T00:00:00.000Z","One of our main goals for Axure RP 9 was to make interactions simpler, speedier, and more approachable for both new and experienced users. After a lot of internal testing and tons of feedback from beta testers, we think we've achieved that goal with the new interactions workflow.",{"src":204},{},"/blog/new-in-axure-rp-9-building-interactions-inline",{"src":538},"/images/2018/09/new-ix-workflow-featured-image.png",{"title":384,"description":533},"blog/new-in-axure-rp-9-building-interactions-inline","gYqfB-5BHVoOxva3JHFsDgr5K9JXi0OgR3Baq1lOmJg",{"id":543,"title":544,"author":8,"body":545,"categories":640,"date":643,"description":644,"extension":203,"featuredImage":204,"mainImage":645,"meta":647,"navigation":208,"path":648,"previewImage":649,"seo":650,"stem":651,"tags":204,"__hash__":652},"blog/blog/get-team-projects.md","Get the Most out of Team Projects",{"type":10,"value":546,"toc":633},[547,563,567,570,574,577,583,587,598,602,622,626],[13,548,549,550,553,554,558,559,295],{},"Axure RP's ",[22,551,552],{},"team projects"," feature is what separates the middle-tier Team Edition from the Pro Edition. If you have the Team Edition—or the top-tier Enterprise Edition, which also includes the team projects feature—are you getting the most out of your team projects? Read on for some superuser tips. (Find a more detailed comparison of Axure RP editions on ",[37,555,557],{"href":556},"/buy","our buy page",".) And by the way, if you're using the Team Edition but haven't yet explored—or maybe even haven't heard of—the team projects feature, you're definitely not getting your value's worth! Start by diving into ",[37,560,562],{"href":561},"/support/reference/team-projects","our thorough team projects documentation",[30,564,566],{"id":565},"see-whos-got-that-page-you-want","See who's got that page you want",[13,568,569],{},"As of the recent release of Axure RP 8.1, you can now check who's got a given page or master checked out. Any item checked out to another team member will be showing an icon that looks like a blue diamond with a minus sign inside it; click on that icon to see the name of the team member who's got the item checked out. This information updates in real time—a few times per minute if you have a stable internet connection.",[30,571,573],{"id":572},"your-prototype-is-always-ready-to-share","Your prototype is always ready to share",[13,575,576],{},"As soon as you set up a team project on Axure Share, there's an always-updated version of your prototype ready to send to stakeholders at a moment's notice. Access this version of the prototype at \u003Cabc123.axshare.com>, where \"abc123\" is your project's six-character Axure Share ID. The prototype at this location is automatically updated any time a team member checks in their changes to the central copy of the project, so it's always current.",[13,578,579,582],{},[22,580,581],{},"Note:"," If you'd like to maintain milestone versions of your team project's prototype, you can do that by publishing to an alternative Axure Share ID in Axure RP's \"Publish to Axure Share\" dialog.",[30,584,586],{"id":585},"think-in-terms-of-workspaces","Think in terms of workspaces",[13,588,589,592,593,597],{},[22,590,591],{},"Workspaces",", a feature of Axure Share, are the best way to control your coauthors' and viewers' access to your team projects. As soon as you decide to turn that rough prototype you've thrown together into something you'd like to develop further with colleagues, don't reach for the \"Team\" menu in Axure RP; instead, fire up your web browser, log in to Axure Share, and create a new workspace. Then, once you've ",[37,594,596],{"href":595},"/support/reference/axure-share-security#additional_workspace_security_and_permissions","configured security settings"," and invited coauthors and/or viewers, you'll be ready to use Axure RP's \"Create Team Project from Current File\" command to populate your new workspace with a team project. Think of configuring the workspace as setting the stage for your first act.",[30,599,601],{"id":600},"collaborate-on-libraries-too","Collaborate on libraries too!",[13,603,604,607,608,612,613,617,618,621],{},[22,605,606],{},"Widget libraries"," are a feature of Axure RP that lets you store and reuse common design patterns. We've got ",[37,609,611],{"href":610},"/support/download-widget-libraries","a big collection of pre-made widget libraries available for download on our website",". But did you know that ",[37,614,616],{"href":615},"/support/reference/widget-libraries#creating_libraries","you can make your own custom widget libraries","—or edit the ones you download—right inside Axure RP, the same way you'd edit a regular project? And on top of ",[45,619,620],{},"that",", you can even author widget libraries as team projects if needed. Host your widget libraries on Axure Share to complete your round-trip workflow.",[30,623,625],{"id":624},"switch-between-public-cloud-and-private-server","Switch between public cloud and private server",[13,627,628,629,295],{},"Here's a tip for our Enterprise Edition users: you can quickly switch back and forth between publishing to the Axure Share public cloud and one or more private Axure Enterprise servers. The dialog for doing this is available via the \"Manage Servers\" button at the top of the Publish to Axure Share dialog. Switch between public and private instances of Axure Share when you want to publish the occasional public prototype (though still password-protected, of course!) from an otherwise private and siloed team project hosted on your company's Axure Enterprise server. What's that you say? You weren't aware that we offered a private version of Axure Share for hosting behind your company's firewall? If that's the case, you can ",[37,630,632],{"href":631},"/enterprise","read all about Axure for Enterprise here",{"title":189,"searchDepth":190,"depth":190,"links":634},[635,636,637,638,639],{"id":565,"depth":190,"text":566},{"id":572,"depth":190,"text":573},{"id":585,"depth":190,"text":586},{"id":600,"depth":190,"text":601},{"id":624,"depth":190,"text":625},[641,552,642],"Axure Share Enterprise","Tips and Tricks","2018-03-20T00:00:00.000Z","Axure RP's team projects feature is what separates the middle-tier Team Edition from the Pro Edition. If you have the Team Edition—or the top-tier Enterprise Edition, which also includes the team projects feature—are you getting the most out of your team projects? Read on for some superuser tips.",{"src":646},"/images/2019/04/7lryofj0h9s.jpg",{},"/blog/get-team-projects",{"src":646},{"title":544,"description":644},"blog/get-team-projects","euRNa1tVtbMqbIqXdjFp-fHMDiZXdi5tIVFPB2Fc5do",{"id":654,"title":655,"author":8,"body":656,"categories":756,"date":758,"description":759,"extension":203,"featuredImage":204,"mainImage":760,"meta":761,"navigation":208,"path":762,"previewImage":763,"seo":765,"stem":766,"tags":204,"__hash__":767},"blog/blog/axure-share-moving-enforced-https.md","Axure Share is Moving to Enforced HTTPS",{"type":10,"value":657,"toc":754},[658,668,678,681,736,746],[13,659,660,663,664,667],{},[22,661,662],{},"Axure Share is moving to HTTPS-only."," While the option to redirect to HTTPS links for your Axure Share content has been available for some time, we've now decided to enforce HTTPS for everything hosted on the service. This change will happen in ",[22,665,666],{},"two phases",":",[669,670,671,675],"ol",{},[672,673,674],"li",{},"HTTPS will become the default option for workspaces instead of HTTP.",[672,676,677],{},"HTTP will disappear as an option for workspaces.",[13,679,680],{},"This is good news for the security and speed of your Axure Share content, and many of you won't notice a difference beyond that little \"secure\" icon appearing in your browser's address bar when you're viewing an Axure Share page. For some of you, though, the switch to enforced HTTPS will require some vigilance and potentially some changes to be made to ensure that your prototypes continue to be viewable. These are the areas that may need your attention:",[682,683,684,699,716,723,730],"ul",{},[672,685,686,687,690,691,694,695,698],{},"We're ",[22,688,689],{},"deprecating"," two of Axure Share's branding features, ",[22,692,693],{},"custom domains"," and ",[22,696,697],{},"custom account login pages",". (Custom prototype password pages will still be available.) We're going to make the change along with the HTTPS switchover because the outgoing features aren't compatible with our secure architecture. Existing custom domains will continue to work, but will continue to transfer over regular, insecure HTTP.",[672,700,701,702,705,706,710,711,715],{},"If you use ",[22,703,704],{},"inline frame widgets"," in your prototypes, make sure that you're linking to the HTTPS versions of your links instead of regular HTTP (e.g., ",[37,707,708],{"href":708,"rel":709},"https://www.google.com/maps/etc.",[41]," instead of ",[37,712,713],{"href":713,"rel":714},"http://www.google.com/maps/etc.",[41],"). An HTTP page pointed to in an iframe after we flip the switch to HTTPS will constitute a \"mixed content\" web security issue and will be blocked by your web browser, though the rest of the page will continue to function just fine.",[672,717,718,719,722],{},"Similar to the above, ",[22,720,721],{},"any link clicked when the prototype's sidebar is open"," will need to either point to an HTTPS address or open in a new browser tab in order to function properly. This is because the prototype is technically a frameset when the sidebar is expanded.",[672,724,725,726,729],{},"Any ",[22,727,728],{},"custom plugins"," you've implemented will benefit from some testing after the switch, as they may need to be updated.",[672,731,732,735],{},[22,733,734],{},"Web fonts"," will work with our new HTTPS architecture—but not yet. We'll make sure we have a solution in place for this before our November deadline. For now, keep in mind as you're doing any testing with HTTPS that your web fonts may look incorrect for the next couple of weeks.",[13,737,738,739,742,743,295],{},"If you want to verify in advance that your prototypes are still going to be looking and working great after the November 1st switchover, we recommend that you take a moment now to ",[22,740,741],{},"enable the SSL option"," in your \"Configure Security\" dialog for any Axure Share workspace. (After the switch, you'll be able to use this same dialog to switch your workspaces back to HTTP temporarily if you need to.) ",[37,744,745],{"href":595},"Read more about the SSL option in our documentation",[13,747,748,749,753],{},"Welcome to the more secure future with ",[37,750,372],{"href":751,"rel":752},"http://axure.com/axure-cloud",[41],"! We appreciate your attention to this.",{"title":189,"searchDepth":190,"depth":190,"links":755},[],[372,757,301],"HTTPS","2017-10-12T00:00:00.000Z","Axure Share is moving to HTTPS-only. While the option to redirect to HTTPS links for your Axure Share content has been available for some time, we've now decided to enforce HTTPS for everything hosted on the service.",{"src":204},{},"/blog/axure-share-moving-enforced-https",{"src":764},"/images/2019/04/tryl7jyath0.jpg",{"title":655,"description":759},"blog/axure-share-moving-enforced-https","c3PFgJS7MwT239IrB8L67MU6KF7xYuIKt-FB6i9v1qY",{"id":769,"title":770,"author":8,"body":771,"categories":829,"date":834,"description":835,"extension":203,"featuredImage":204,"mainImage":836,"meta":838,"navigation":208,"path":839,"previewImage":840,"seo":842,"stem":843,"tags":204,"__hash__":844},"blog/blog/paul-olson-axure-users-meetup-chicago.md","Paul Olson at Axure Users Meetup, Chicago",{"type":10,"value":772,"toc":827},[773,778,787,789,792,795,798,801,804,810,813,816,819,821],[13,774,775],{},[45,776,777],{},"Stefani Sandow, co-organizer of Axure Users Meetup, Chicago, contributed this report.",[13,779,780,781,786],{},"In May the ",[37,782,785],{"href":783,"rel":784},"https://www.meetup.com/Axure-Users-Meetup-Chicago/",[41],"Axure Users Meetup, Chicago",", celebrated the 15th anniversary of Axure—both the company and the product, Axure RP—with an interesting talk and bountiful refreshments. Axure treated the group to bao and potstickers (because phở is a little difficult to share), beer, and birthday cake. We also had a backpack and license raffle and a great talk from Paul Olson, Senior UX Manager at a big-box office supply retailer*, which is summarized below.",[519,788],{},[13,790,791],{},"Paul and his team use Axure RP to prototype for projects across their e-commerce website, including redesigns for the header, footer, homepage, SKU page, and enhanced search. Following good UX practices, Paul and his team did some broad persona research and gathered feedback and metrics using tools like Usabilla, Clicktale, Medallia, and Qualtronics.",[13,793,794],{},"One of the things they discovered was that a good portion of their clientele—demographically, these were typically women who did the purchasing for their offices or families—loved the free gifts and promotions that the company offered, typically via coupons. However, it was a challenge for them to exit the purchasing workflow to get the coupon or free gift into the checkout cart. In addition, because of a lack of feedback, the user was not always sure whether the coupon had actually gone into the cart. Knowing this, Paul and company decided that if the customer were eligible for a promotion, it would be put it into the cart automatically. Then the customer would only have to decide whether they wanted to click \"apply\" or not.",[13,796,797],{},"At this point the Axure fun began: In order to test the usability of the intended cart interaction, Paul and his team built a mini cart in an Axure prototype for testing. The mini cart was a panel that appeared when a promotion was added. Because the user complaint was \"we don't know whether the promotion was applied\", the team was able to use Axure to mock up various animations and feedback mechanisms to determine which was the best way to provide instant, \"something-just-happened\"-type feedback.",[13,799,800],{},"They were also able to use Axure to create standards for the entire multinational company. Although pricing and currency differ on all the local sites, the UX team made \"price block\" standards and detailed page standards in a shared Axure library to ensure that everyone was using the same commerce and branding rules, even if the symbols were different. Axure helped them eliminate style confusion. Paul said Axure was \"a one-step resource for defining all the elements of the site.\"",[13,802,803],{},"The team also used Axure to help design a SKU page—a detailed page for a specific item. Using Axure prototypes as a guide for production builds, they were able to do A/B testing before a full rollout. In this case—something they deemed as 'high-risk' because it could adversely affect revenues—only about 20% of the universe of users saw the new design, which displayed details in a lightbox effect as opposed to on a page. In the end it turned out they had less success with the light box effect, so they dropped it from the site. Axure helped inform this important business decision.",[805,806,807],"blockquote",{},[13,808,809],{},"Paul summarized by saying that Axure helps to do UX better: it saves time overall, makes life easier, increases efficiency, and gives the team opportunities to discover stuff along the way.",[13,811,812],{},"Axure also came in handy in a study of whether to design responsively across delivery mechanisms or provide different apps; for remote usability testing of a search box feature; and when encouraging the team to upload the new pieces of the site annotated with the right colors and branding elements, which made it much easier for the developers to understand the intent of the designs and interactions.",[13,814,815],{},"Paul summarized by saying that Axure helps to do UX better: it saves time overall, makes life easier, increases efficiency, and gives the team opportunities to discover stuff along the way. All this helps to create a better design, which in turn helps users feel better about themselves and increases happiness.",[13,817,818],{},"Paul closed with a slide showing the Axure logo fitted with a crown, and the comment \"Axure is king\". A fitting way to end the meeting and the birthday celebration.",[519,820],{},[13,822,823,824],{},"*",[45,825,826],{},"We've omitted the company name because we don't have explicit permission to use it.",{"title":189,"searchDepth":190,"depth":190,"links":828},[],[830,831,832,833],"Axure Users Meetup Chicago","Paul Olson","Stefani Sandow","User Stories","2017-09-12T00:00:00.000Z","In May the Axure Users Meetup, Chicago, celebrated the 15th anniversary of Axure—both the company and the product, Axure RP—with an interesting talk and bountiful refreshments. Axure treated the group to bao and potstickers (because phở is a little difficult to share), beer, and birthday cake. ",{"src":837},"/images/2019/04/tnv84lojes4.jpg",{},"/blog/paul-olson-axure-users-meetup-chicago",{"src":841},"/images/2019/04/nyvq2juw4_o.jpg",{"title":770,"description":835},"blog/paul-olson-axure-users-meetup-chicago","ZbHwyvjFasDaaErlD-QpCOyHn1TCNOjYY2mIdbBTJPQ",{"id":846,"title":847,"author":8,"body":848,"categories":1271,"date":1274,"description":856,"extension":203,"featuredImage":204,"mainImage":1275,"meta":1277,"navigation":208,"path":1278,"previewImage":1279,"seo":1280,"stem":1281,"tags":204,"__hash__":1282},"blog/blog/approachable-guide-prototyping-accessibility-axure-rp.md","The Approachable Guide to Prototyping for Accessibility with Axure RP",{"type":10,"value":849,"toc":1254},[850,854,857,861,864,949,960,964,973,975,979,1002,1006,1026,1030,1047,1061,1068,1072,1081,1098,1107,1120,1124,1136,1140,1157,1161,1164,1175,1186,1190,1193,1197,1205,1209,1223,1227,1240,1242,1246],[30,851,853],{"id":852},"about-this-guide","About this guide",[13,855,856],{},"This guide pulls together a number of accessibility issues worthy of your consideration as you develop your next Axure RP prototype, along with some simple steps you can take in the tool to pilot your project toward an outcome that's more friendly for all types of people to consume.",[30,858,860],{"id":859},"the-experts","The experts",[13,862,863],{},"In assembling this guide, we've gathered advice from the following web accessibility specialists:",[682,865,866,882,893,911,923,932],{},[672,867,868,871,872,877,878],{},[22,869,870],{},"Jennifer Sutton",", owner of ",[37,873,876],{"href":874,"rel":875},"https://www.linkedin.com/in/jsuttonmedia/",[41],"JSutton Media",". ",[37,879,881],{"href":880},"/blog/accessibility-prototyping-axure-conversation-jennifer-sutton","Kip Mitchell of Axure recently interviewed Jennifer on the subject of accessibility and prototyping.",[672,883,884,887,888],{},[22,885,886],{},"Aidan Tierney",", Manager of Digital Accessibility at TD Bank. ",[37,889,892],{"href":890,"rel":891},"http://www.accessiq.org/news/news/2015/05/qa-testing-for-accessibility-before-development-begins",[41],"Aidan was interviewed in 2015 by Access iQ about accessibility and prototyping.",[672,894,895,898,899,904,905,910],{},[22,896,897],{},"Alison Walden",", Director of Experience Technology at SapientRazorfish and proprietor of the ",[37,900,903],{"href":901,"rel":902},"http://accessib.li/",[41],"accessib.ly"," blog. Alison has written broadly on accessibility, but her 2016 presentation \"",[37,906,909],{"href":907,"rel":908},"http://accessib.li/2016/05/14/creating-accessible-experiences-starts-with-experience-design/",[41],"Creating accessible experiences starts with experience design","\" is particularly relevant here.",[672,912,913,916,917,922],{},[22,914,915],{},"Terrill Thompson",", Technology Accessibility Specialist with the University of Washington and accessibility blogger. ",[37,918,921],{"href":919,"rel":920},"http://terrillthompson.com/blog/",[41],"Terrill's personal blog"," is both a wealth of information on best practices and also itself an instructive example of accessible web design.",[672,924,925,694,928,931],{},[22,926,927],{},"Ann Chadwick-Dias",[22,929,930],{},"Marguerite Bergel",", Directors of UX Research at Fidelity Investments. Ann and Margy are distinguished researchers, trainers, and presenters in the accessibility space, whose work has been cited by several of the experts we consulted for this guide.",[672,933,934,694,937,940,941,948],{},[22,935,936],{},"Sarah Horton",[22,938,939],{},"Whitney Quesenbery",", authors of ",[37,942,945],{"href":943,"rel":944},"http://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/a-web-for-everyone/",[41],[45,946,947],{},"A Web for Everyone",". Sarah and Whitney's highly influential book is required reading for the accessibility-enlightened Axure designer.",[13,950,951,952,955,956,959],{},"The reasoning behind this guide's recommendations is thoroughly explored in the above links, so please click through if you have the time and inclination to self-educate. For practical tips on how to implement our experts' suggestions when working in Axure RP—the \"",[22,953,954],{},"how","\" as opposed to the \"",[22,957,958],{},"why","\"—read on.",[30,961,963],{"id":962},"the-official-guidelines-arent-these","The official guidelines (aren't these)",[13,965,966,967,972],{},"If conformance to an official set of accessibility guidelines is an explicit goal of your project—or if you'd like it to be—the guidelines you want are the ",[37,968,971],{"href":969,"rel":970},"https://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag",[41],"Web Content Accessibility Guidelines"," (WCAG), current version 2.0. The WCAG are intended to be precise and thorough. If your web content conforms to all of the WCAG 2.0's level AA standards, you'll get two things: you'll very likely be in full compliance with any applicable laws, and you'll also very likely have a site with much better usability for people with disabilities than 99% of what's out there. The Axure guide, by contrast, is meant to be informal—we won't be citing WCAG criteria here. Instead, we're going for approachability. It takes just a couple of minutes to dip into this guide for a quick, actionable tip or two about how to make your content better for accessibility than it otherwise would have been. Think of it as a collection of modest first steps. Here we go!",[519,974],{},[30,976,978],{"id":977},"color-contrast","Color contrast",[13,980,981,982,985,986,991,992,997,998,1001],{},"One nice thing about doing your design in Axure RP is that it outputs HTML, which can then be fed into any of a number of ",[22,983,984],{},"HTML accessibility checkers"," available online. (",[37,987,990],{"href":988,"rel":989},"http://wave.webaim.org/",[41],"WAVE"," is a pretty good one.) Publish your prototype to ",[37,993,996],{"href":994,"rel":995},"http://share.axure.com",[41],"Axure Share",", paste the URL into your checking tool of choice, and then pick a couple of the reported problem areas to punch up a bit. If you're looking for buy-in from project stakeholders on the issue of contrast, try the ",[22,999,1000],{},"sunlight test",", recommended to us by Jennifer Sutton. Take your most skeptical stakeholder out for coffee on a sunny day, and on the way, pull out your phone and load up your design. Even with the brightness on your device turned all the way up, chances are that a design with inadequate contrast will be darned hard to read in full sun.",[30,1003,1005],{"id":1004},"tab-order-focus-order","Tab order / focus order",[13,1007,1008,1009,1012,1013,1017,1018,1021,1022,1025],{},"The tab order of keyboard-navigable elements, such as form elements, in your Axure RP diagram is ",[22,1010,1011],{},"determined by the order of elements in the Outline pane",". (Check out ",[37,1014,1016],{"href":1015},"/support/reference/widgets#layer_order","the \"Layer Order\" section of our \"Organizing Widgets\" training page"," for more details.) If you're designing a page with keyboard navigation in mind, consider temporarily switching the Outline's sort order to \"",[22,1019,1020],{},"Back to Front","\" via the \"Sort and Filter\" button in the pane's local toolbar. If you'd like a normally non-keyboard-navigable element, such as an image, to become navigable in your prototype, simply ",[22,1023,1024],{},"add interactivity"," to it. Even just an empty OnClick case will do!",[30,1027,1029],{"id":1028},"indicating-focus","Indicating focus",[13,1031,1032,1033,1036,1037,1041,1042,1046],{},"Modern browsers are pretty good about visually indicating focus as you're tabbing through a page, but if you'd like more control over this, you can add special focus effects to your elements. To do this, first configure a ",[22,1034,1035],{},"Selected interaction style"," for your widget. (",[37,1038,1040],{"href":1039},"/support/training/core/4-interactive-prototyping#interaction_styles","Here's the section of our training dealing with interaction styles",", and ",[37,1043,1045],{"href":1044},"/support/training/interactive-button-tutorial","here's our interactive button tutorial",", which is a good practical demonstration of how interaction styles work.) Then, add OnFocus and OnLostFocus cases, like so:",[682,1048,1049,1055],{},[672,1050,1051,1054],{},[22,1052,1053],{},"OnFocus:"," Case 1: Set is selected of This equal to \"true\"",[672,1056,1057,1060],{},[22,1058,1059],{},"OnLostFocus:"," Case 1: Set is selected of This equal to \"false\"",[13,1062,1063,1064,1067],{},"Because the actions here refer to \"this\" widget, meaning the widget on which the case is set up, you can ",[22,1065,1066],{},"create these cases just one time and then quickly copy-paste them"," to as many other widgets as you need to.",[30,1069,1071],{"id":1070},"error-presentment-error-recovery-form-validation","Error presentment / error recovery / form validation",[13,1073,1074,1075,1080],{},"Axure RP's powerful interactivity features can be used to build forms that look and feel like the real thing, right down to the complex validation behaviors. (",[37,1076,1079],{"href":1077,"rel":1078},"https://docs.axure.com/axure-rp/tutorials/account-login/",[41],"Here's an Axure blog post about building a form with dynamic validation and inline errors.",") When deciding how your form will handle error presentment, consider choosing from one the following three accessibility-friendly approaches:",[682,1082,1083,1088,1093],{},[672,1084,1085],{},[22,1086,1087],{},"error alert, then focus",[672,1089,1090],{},[22,1091,1092],{},"errors on top",[672,1094,1095],{},[22,1096,1097],{},"inline errors",[13,1099,1100,1101,1106],{},"(",[37,1102,1105],{"href":1103,"rel":1104},"http://webaim.org/techniques/formvalidation/#error",[41],"Here's an article from WebAIM going into detail about each error presentment option.",")",[13,1108,1109,1110,1114,1115,1119],{},"If you'd like to go with the first option, you'll want to build your modal dialog in Axure RP using a ",[37,1111,1113],{"href":1112},"/support/reference/dynamic-panel-widgets","dynamic panel widget",". (For an example of how to do a modal-type window with a lightbox effect, check out ",[37,1116,1118],{"href":1117},"/support/training/lightbox-tutorial","our lightbox tutorial",".)",[30,1121,1123],{"id":1122},"heading-strategy","Heading strategy",[13,1125,1126,1127,1130,1131,1135],{},"Your content deserves a thoughtful, consistent heading strategy—that's just a general usability best practice (that also happens to be an accessibility best practice). Once you've ironed that out, implementation is a cinch with Axure RP's ",[22,1128,1129],{},"widget styles",". (",[37,1132,1134],{"href":1133},"/support/reference/widget-and-page-styles","Here's our training page on widget and page styles.",") Simply make styles corresponding to each of your heading levels—or use the presets in any new Axure RP file—and then let your developer know to match those levels to their corresponding HTML heading levels in your production content.",[30,1137,1139],{"id":1138},"autoplay-sliders","Autoplay (sliders)",[13,1141,1142,1143,1147,1148,1152,1153,1156],{},"If you want to have a carousel or image slider in your Axure prototype, you can certainly do that. (",[37,1144,1146],{"href":1145},"/support/training/rotating-carousel-banner-tutorial","Here's our image carousel tutorial.",") And if you want to have an element of your Axure RP design start going by itself, you can easily do that too, using the OnLoad or OnPageLoad events. (",[37,1149,1151],{"href":1150},"/support/reference/interactions#events_list","Here's a full list of Axure RP events from our documentation.",") But if you build a carousel and also make it auto-rotate, for accessibility reasons it's a good idea to provide a control that will stop the auto-rotation if wanted. Fortunately, there's an Axure RP feature for that too! Set up a case on the OnClick event of your pause button, add a \"Set Panel State\" action, specify your carousel dynamic panel, and then choose the \"",[22,1154,1155],{},"Stop Repeating","\" option from the \"Select state\" dropdown.",[30,1158,1160],{"id":1159},"link-text-and-link-labels","Link text and link labels",[13,1162,1163],{},"Here are some traits of accessible text links:",[669,1165,1166,1169,1172],{},[672,1167,1168],{},"They make sense out of context—so no \"link\", \"info\", \"read more\", or \"click here\" text links.",[672,1170,1171],{},"They're as long as necessary to describe the linked content, but no longer. In some contexts, one-word links are ideal; in others, five or six or more words will be necessary to adequately describe the target content.",[672,1173,1174],{},"Put another way: accessible links answer the question, \"would I want to click this?\" For example, if you're creating a set of links for adding parameters to a search filter, a text link reading \"add color\" is better than one that simply says \"color\".",[13,1176,1177,1178,1181,1182,1106],{},"If it makes sense for your link to have text that's different visually from what would be read out by a screen reader, no problem—create a ",[22,1179,1180],{},"widget note"," field to document your preferred link label. You can let your developer know to append the text in your \"link label\" note field to each link in such a way that it's hidden from sighted users but available to screen readers. (",[37,1183,1185],{"href":1184},"/support/reference/widget-and-page-notes","Here's our training page about widget and page notes.",[30,1187,1189],{"id":1188},"form-control-labels","Form control labels",[13,1191,1192],{},"Form controls need good labels too. Make another widget note field called \"form label\" which you can use to indicate to your dev team what the appropriate descriptive text would be for each of your form elements.",[30,1194,1196],{"id":1195},"alternative-text","Alternative text",[13,1198,1199,1200,295],{},"This is another situation for widget notes. Create a note field called \"alt attribute\" to provide your developer with the alt text they'll use for any relevant images. Keep in mind that not all images need an alt attribute, particularly if they're decorative or if the content of the image is already described by surrounding text. If you're not sure whether your image needs alt text, or if so, what kind, refer to ",[37,1201,1204],{"href":1202,"rel":1203},"http://4syllables.com.au/articles/text-alternatives-decision-tree/",[41],"this handy and approachable decision chart from 4 Syllables",[30,1206,1208],{"id":1207},"review-pages-confirmation-pages","Review pages / confirmation pages",[13,1210,1211,1212,877,1215,1041,1219,295],{},"If you'd like to pull user-entered data from page to page in your Axure RP prototype for display on a review or confirmation page, the Axure RP feature to reach for is ",[22,1213,1214],{},"variables",[37,1216,1218],{"href":1217},"/support/reference/variables","Here's our variables page over on the Axure support site",[37,1220,1222],{"href":1221},"/support/training/pass-text-to-next-page-tutorial","here's our \"pass text to next page\" tutorial",[30,1224,1226],{"id":1225},"timed-responses-need-more-time-dialogs","Timed responses / \"need more time\" dialogs",[13,1228,1229,1230,1234,1235,1239],{},"Axure RP provides for the use of a bunch of different time and date variables, which you can use to build real, dynamic count-up or countdown timers into your design. ",[37,1231,1233],{"href":1232},"/c/forum/7-0-tips-tricks-examples/8030-v7-variables-list.html#post24094","Here's a reasonably complete list of available time and date"," functions in a post on the Axure forum, and ",[37,1236,1238],{"href":1237},"/c/forum/7-0-tips-tricks-examples/14773-creating-countdown-timer.html#post64077","here's an .rp file example of a working countdown timer",". Just remember to build in a feature allowing the user to request more time to complete their task! A modal dialog with a couple of buttons usually does nicely.",[519,1241],{},[30,1243,1245],{"id":1244},"and-more","And more?",[13,1247,1248,1249,1253],{},"Is our guide missing an Axure RP technique that has made prototyping for accessibility easier for you on a past project? Let us know by emailing us at ",[37,1250,1252],{"href":1251},"mailto:contactus@axure.com","contactus@axure.com",", and we may add your suggestion to this guide (along with a credit!).",{"title":189,"searchDepth":190,"depth":190,"links":1255},[1256,1257,1258,1259,1260,1261,1262,1263,1264,1265,1266,1267,1268,1269,1270],{"id":852,"depth":190,"text":853},{"id":859,"depth":190,"text":860},{"id":962,"depth":190,"text":963},{"id":977,"depth":190,"text":978},{"id":1004,"depth":190,"text":1005},{"id":1028,"depth":190,"text":1029},{"id":1070,"depth":190,"text":1071},{"id":1122,"depth":190,"text":1123},{"id":1138,"depth":190,"text":1139},{"id":1159,"depth":190,"text":1160},{"id":1188,"depth":190,"text":1189},{"id":1195,"depth":190,"text":1196},{"id":1207,"depth":190,"text":1208},{"id":1225,"depth":190,"text":1226},{"id":1244,"depth":190,"text":1245},[947,1272,1273,886,897,927,870,930,936,915,642,939],"a11y","accessibility","2017-07-26T00:00:00.000Z",{"src":1276},"/images/2019/04/tekhzpdx54y.jpg",{},"/blog/approachable-guide-prototyping-accessibility-axure-rp",{"src":1276},{"title":847,"description":856},"blog/approachable-guide-prototyping-accessibility-axure-rp","t94srlMm49GNr6qBjQUZlb6qFBOE3-DYEYhPuaU3Ao0",{"id":1284,"title":1285,"author":8,"body":1286,"categories":1589,"date":1591,"description":1592,"extension":203,"featuredImage":204,"mainImage":1593,"meta":1594,"navigation":208,"path":880,"previewImage":1595,"seo":1597,"stem":1598,"tags":204,"__hash__":1599},"blog/blog/accessibility-prototyping-axure-conversation-jennifer-sutton.md","Accessibility and Prototyping: Axure in Conversation with Jennifer Sutton",{"type":10,"value":1287,"toc":1587},[1288,1294,1307,1310,1317,1329,1336,1347,1367,1374,1376,1412,1423,1441,1475,1485,1492,1498,1531,1560,1567,1576],[13,1289,1290,1291,295],{},"This interview is a companion piece to our new ",[37,1292,1293],{"href":1278},"Approachable Guide to Prototyping for Accessibility with Axure RP",[13,1295,1296,1297,1300,1301,1306],{},"Jennifer Sutton of ",[37,1298,876],{"href":874,"rel":1299},[41]," first caught my attention at ",[37,1302,1305],{"href":1303,"rel":1304},"https://uxpa.org/",[41],"UXPA"," 2015, where she participated in a panel discussion with the refreshingly (brutally?) frank title of \"Promoting Accessibility on Projects with No Accessibility Aspirations\". When an audience member asked whether UI prototyping tools could have a place as part of an accessibility-friendly project despite their outputs not necessarily working well with screen readers, Jennifer responded with a remark that surprised me, coming from a web accessibility expert who also happens to be someone who is blind: \"It's not all about the screen reader.\"",[13,1308,1309],{},"I sat down with Jennifer earlier this year for an extended conversation, hoping she'd expand on the thinking behind that statement.",[13,1311,1312,1313,1316],{},"\"I think this really can and does happen … where ",[250,1314,1315],{},"project leaders"," say, 'accessibility is screen readers, and oh my god I don't understand this, it's too hard and it's too scary, so we'll just dismiss it completely.' … But there's a lot of accessibility that people can understand that isn't the screen reader.\" Things like adequate contrasts, sensible link labels, and hierarchical page structure can be couched as general usability issues and can thereby be approachable entry points for considering accessibility on a project where it might not otherwise be a top priority.",[13,1318,1319,1322,1325,1326],{},[250,1320,1321],{},"su_pullquote align=\"right\"",[22,1323,1324],{},"Sneak it in."," Don't tell people — just do it.",[250,1327,1328],{},"/su_pullquote",[13,1330,1331,1332,1335],{},"I asked her what a well-meaning UI designer can do if a project's stakeholders truly have \"no accessibility aspirations\" and are maybe even hostile to the notion. She had three short words for me: \"",[22,1333,1334],{},"Sneak it in!"," Don't tell people, just do it.\"",[13,1337,1338,1339,1342,1343,1346],{},"After we'd finished laughing about that, she clarified that her advice was less about subverting project goals — not recommended — and more about staying educated as a design professional. That way, at least your initial designs can be aligned with accessibility best practices. \"And then if ",[250,1340,1341],{},"stakeholders"," fuss about it, you might have to give a little. You might not be able to get the perfect ",[250,1344,1345],{},"contrast"," ratios. But you could get closer than if you started out with stuff that was bad, outright wrong.\"",[13,1348,1349,1350,1355,1356,1360,1361,1366],{},"The idea isn't to abandon screen reader users but to be realistic about which accessibility goals can be accomplished on which projects. On a project like the redesign of the ",[37,1351,1354],{"href":1352,"rel":1353},"http://2017.worldiaday.org/",[41],"World IA Day 2017 website"," — read ",[37,1357,1359],{"href":1358},"/blog/amy-espinosa-world-ia-day","our profile of WAID's Amy Espinosa"," for more about that — where accessibility is an explicit priority, designers can proudly and boldly aim for a high standard. (In the case of the WAID site redesign, the particular high standard used was ",[37,1362,1365],{"href":1363,"rel":1364},"https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/?currentsidebar=%23col_customize&levels=a%2Caaa",[41],"WCAG 2.0 Level AA","). But Amy, for her part, echoed Jennifer's practical and incremental approach on projects whose stakeholders are less familiar with accessibility considerations: \"I don't think people realize how easy it is to make just a few adjustments and make things more accessible.\"",[13,1368,1369,1370,1373],{},"So what can you, the accessibility-aware Axure RP expert, do to guide your project to an outcome that's friendly to people with all types and levels of disability? Quite a number of things, it turns out. Check out our new ",[37,1371,1372],{"href":1278},"Guide to Prototyping for Accessibility with Axure RP"," for a thorough list of practical tips for the Axure RP user. For my full interview with Jennifer, please read on. During our conversation she made reference to a wealth of other valuable articles and resources, and I've linked to those throughout the text when available.",[519,1375],{},[13,1377,1378,1387,1388,1391,1392,1397,1398,1403,1404,1407,1408,1411],{},[22,1379,1380,1381,1386],{},"Kip Mitchell of Axure: Accessibility specialist ",[37,1382,1385],{"href":1383,"rel":1384},"https://www.slideshare.net/aidantierney/early-prevention-of-accessibility-issues-with-mockup-wireframe-reviews",[41],"Aidan Tierney has said that \"accessibility issues are predictable\"",". To what extent is that true? Are the challenges just around implementing accessible solutions, or are there continually new fundamental types of problems that we're solving?"," Jennifer Sutton: I would say that because technology is always changing, there are always new problems and new ways to solve problems. When it comes to ",[250,1389,1390],{},"rich web"," applications, you've seen all the stuff about ",[37,1393,1396],{"href":1394,"rel":1395},"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAI-ARIA",[41],"WAI-ARIA",". They're working on ARIA 1.1, the best practices. There are a few new things being added there to try to make it better. They're working on ",[37,1399,1402],{"href":1400,"rel":1401},"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Content_Accessibility_Guidelines",[41],"WCAG"," 2.1. There are a number of new success criteria being proposed. There's a push to be focusing on folks with different cognitive disabilities, and what would be the success criteria. But the general ",[250,1405,1406],{},"types of disability"," that you're talking about are well-established. The approaches evolve, and the ideas evolve as technology changes as things get implemented, \"oh, that wasn't quite right, we need to fix it this way, but the concept behind it is still the same, but we now have a better idea based on what we've seen in the wild.\" But the general concepts and the general kinds of people ",[250,1409,1410],{},"with disability"," are pretty clear.",[13,1413,1414,1416,1417,1420,1421],{},[250,1415,1321],{},"A lot of accessibility is usability, ",[22,1418,1419],{},"but it matters even more",". It makes a bigger difference. It has a stronger benefit. Wayfinding helps you — but it's essential for some people, or else they can't function. Color contrast helps you in the sun, but it's essential for some others.",[250,1422,1328],{},[13,1424,1425,1426,1432,1433,1436,1437,1440],{},"A great entry point for UX folks who want to learn about the types of disabilities their users could be experiencing is the set of personas developed by Sarah Horton and Whitney Quesenbery in their book ",[37,1427,1429],{"href":943,"rel":1428},[41],[45,1430,1431],{},"A Web For Everyone",". Personas are risky in and of themselves because people get them in mind and they never evolve them based on feedback that they get or audience changes or whatever. But one of the things I liked about the personas that Whitney and Sarah have in that book is that they're not just disability-centric; they didn't just go down the list of disabilities and have a persona ",[250,1434,1435],{},"for each",". They added complexity to these personas so that it wasn't just disability that they were building them on. They built them with other demographics, like age, English as a second language, all these other things. They were richer than personas sometimes are, and I think that's important. Based on what I read in usability, I think most people are trying. Whether they can actually do it in the real world is another question, but most people are aware and trying to make these rich ",[250,1438,1439],{},"personas"," that reflect the reality of customers.",[13,1442,1443,1446,1447,1450,1451,1456,1457,1462,1463,1468,1469,1474],{},[22,1444,1445],{},"Axure: I'm interested in this idea of the imperfect work environment or the imperfect project, where accessibility is not necessarily the first thing on everyone's list. Some of the project stakeholders might be unfamiliar or less familiar than others with the ideas, and maybe even less motivated due to personality, or maybe they even \"don't care\" about accessibility — they're actively dismissive. How do you work toward accessibility objectives on a project like that? Can you?"," Jennifer: Here's my answer to that: ",[22,1448,1449],{},"sneak it in",". Don't tell people, just do it. And I'm not the first person to say it either, by the way. (Ed. note: ",[37,1452,1455],{"href":1453,"rel":1454},"http://lanyrd.com/2011/btconf/shpwb/",[41],"Tomas Caspers spoke on the subject in 2011"," though unfortunately I can't find video of this talk; here's ",[37,1458,1461],{"href":1459,"rel":1460},"http://www.mediacurrent.com/blog/5-ways-sneak-accessibility-your-next-design",[41],"Carie Fisher of Mediacurrent on the subject in 2016",".) Pretend you're a designer, and you believe in contrast. And you know ",[37,1464,1467],{"href":1465,"rel":1466},"http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200709/10_colour_contrast_checking_tools_to_improve_the_accessibility_of_your_design/",[41],"the tools that you can use to check your contrast",", and you know ",[37,1470,1473],{"href":1471,"rel":1472},"https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/visual-audio-contrast-contrast.html",[41],"the contrast ratios for WCAG AA",". So you just put that in your design, and you don't say anything about it. But, if you get asked, then you explain; but you don't volunteer unduly. Now, if you work at a company with an interest in accessibility, sure, brag about it. \"Hey, I did what I'm supposed to. This is why these contrasts are this way.\" But if they're not paying attention and you know that they should be, just do it. And then if they fuss about it, you might have to give a little. You might not be able to get the perfect ratios. But you could get closer than if you started out with stuff that was bad, outright wrong.",[13,1476,1477,1479,1480,1483],{},[250,1478,1321],{},"People say, \"accessibility is screen readers, and oh my god I don't understand this, it's too hard and it's too scary, so we'll just dismiss it completely.\" ",[22,1481,1482],{},"There's a lot of accessibility that people can understand that isn't the screen reader.",[250,1484,1328],{},[13,1486,1487,1488,1491],{},"Another thing you can do is make the case by relating it to something a non-disabled person can understand. You can say, \"well, ",[22,1489,1490],{},"this grey. Even in the sunlight, nobody can see it, and I'm 25 and I still can't even see it in the sun.","\" You just get closer; closer to what they want, while staying as close to best practice as you can.",[13,1493,1494,1497],{},[22,1495,1496],{},"Axure: I like that specific example, the idea that you would take a website outside on a mobile phone and look at it in full sun. Because I can't see hardly anything on my phone in full sun."," Jennifer: Yes, that's an example people have used. It's something anybody can understand. A lot of people think, \"contrast is for old people. And we don't have old people that visit our site because we're young and cool.\" So it's good to meet people where they are and come up with examples that anyone can understand.",[13,1499,1500,1507,1508,1513,1514,1519,1520,1525,1526,295],{},[22,1501,1502,1503,1506],{},"Axure: What about the business case? I'm sure this will be different for every product, project, and business, but have you ever been brought in ",[250,1504,1505],{},"as a trainer"," because someone had some success with making the point that more attention paid to accessibility will be good for the bottom line?"," Jennifer: ",[37,1509,1512],{"href":1510,"rel":1511},"https://www.w3.org/WAI/bcase/Overview.html",[41],"The W3C web accessibility initiative has a page on making the business case."," And ",[37,1515,1518],{"href":1516,"rel":1517},"https://www.w3.org/WAI/bcase/resources#cases",[41],"they have a few use cases",", but what you'll see when you look at them is that they're old. They've had a lot of difficulty trying to get more use cases because people are nervous about putting themselves out there. You might make a bunch of changes, and you might see an increase, and you might think that it has to do with accessibility, so you'd be willing to put yourself out there. But then two years later, you might change your site again, and then you don't want that visibility because your new site might be completely different and may not have prioritized accessibility in the same way. So you're locked in at that point. The other place to look for business case stuff is ",[37,1521,1524],{"href":1522,"rel":1523},"http://www.karlgroves.com/",[41],"Karl Groves",". He has ",[37,1527,1530],{"href":1528,"rel":1529},"http://www.karlgroves.com/category/accessibility-business-case/",[41],"a whole series of posts about making the business case",[13,1532,1533,1542,1543,1546,1547,1552,1553,1556,1557,1559],{},[22,1534,1535,1536,1541],{},"Axure: It seems that a lot of accessibility concerns can be framed as usability concerns. A designer can take this attitude, like, \"well, ",[37,1537,1540],{"href":1538,"rel":1539},"https://developer.apple.com/ios/human-interface-guidelines/visual-design/layout/",[41],"Apple's design guidelines say that a mobile button has to be at least 44 pixels tall",", and Apple's great at design, so who are we to make these tiny, ugly buttons.\" It's about looking modern, it's about being on the cutting edge, and then you can say or not say that it happens to be good for accessibility too."," Jennifer: Whitney ",[250,1544,1545],{},"Quesenbery"," is famous for saying that ",[37,1548,1551],{"href":1549,"rel":1550},"https://twitter.com/whitneyq/status/836924621672890369",[41],"accessibility and usability are twins separated at birth",". It gets back to your point. A lot of accessibility is usability, but it matters even more. It makes a bigger difference. It has a stronger benefit. Wayfinding helps you — but it's ",[45,1554,1555],{},"essential"," for some people, or else they can't function. Color contrast helps you in the sun, but it's ",[45,1558,1555],{}," for some others. I see a lot of times, people contact me and they say, \"I see this problem, where does it fit into WCAG?\" Well, you could cram it into WCAG if you wanted to, but why? If you have user research that tells you it's a problem, whether it fits into WCAG or not, it's a problem.",[13,1561,1562,1564,1565],{},[250,1563,1321],{},"Pretty much any design pattern you hate, if you look it up, comma, accessibility, I bet you'll find something.",[250,1566,1328],{},[13,1568,1569,1570,1575],{},"For example: I had somebody working on a web application — very much an application and not a website — and it had a tools section on the landing page with certain tools under it, and then it had another tools section on a different page with other tools under it. And the users without disabilities were confused. So my client was asking me, can you use — there's something in WCAG about making things the same across pages (",[37,1571,1574],{"href":1572,"rel":1573},"https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/consistent-behavior-consistent-locations.html",[41],"success criterion 3.2.3","). And I said, \"WCAG really focuses more on pages than it does on a web application, but why would you need to use WCAG? These people are telling you they're confused. Even if the developers don't like it, it's true. If they then choose not to do anything about it, maybe because the application has unique needs, that's their business. But you have the evidence.\"",[13,1577,1578],{},[22,1579,1580,1581,1586],{},"Axure: At UXPA 2015, I saw you speak as part of a panel discussion titled ",[37,1582,1585],{"href":1583,"rel":1584},"https://www.slideshare.net/UXPA/promoting-accessibility-on-projects-with-no-accessibility-aspirations-49918013",[41],"Promoting Accessibility on Projects With No Accessibility Aspirations",". In response to a question about prototyping tools and accessibility, you said something that really stuck with me: \"It's not all about the screen reader.\"",{"title":189,"searchDepth":190,"depth":190,"links":1588},[],[1272,1273,870,1590],"UX Trends","2017-07-25T00:00:00.000Z","Jennifer Sutton of JSutton Media dives into Accessibility and Prototyping. She answers questions such as: What a well-meaning UI designer can do if a project's stakeholders truly have 'no accessibility aspirations' and are maybe even hostile to the notion.",{"src":204},{},{"src":1596},"/images/2019/04/qwwphwip31m.jpg",{"title":1285,"description":1592},"blog/accessibility-prototyping-axure-conversation-jennifer-sutton","b4yCQlX9SsQY_FDlPeXgtriRypIAhBvHUiO9yCXDQyM",{"id":1601,"title":1602,"author":8,"body":1603,"categories":1616,"date":1617,"description":1618,"extension":203,"featuredImage":204,"mainImage":1619,"meta":1621,"navigation":208,"path":1622,"previewImage":1623,"seo":1624,"stem":1625,"tags":204,"__hash__":1626},"blog/blog/axure-turns-15.md","Axure Turns 15",{"type":10,"value":1604,"toc":1614},[1605,1608,1611],[13,1606,1607],{},"Axure was born when Victor and Martin were working together at a Bay Area startup and went looking for a better tool to help them gather requirements and produce specifications, wireframes, and prototypes. They couldn't find a tool that met their needs—this was before the title of \"UX Designer\" even existed—so they built one: Axure RP.",[13,1609,1610],{},"That was 15 years ago this month. And while it's been an exciting ride, the most exciting part for us is making sure that the best is yet to come. We're currently hard at work on Axure RP 9, and we've got our sights set on making it the most powerful, streamlined, attractive, performant, and capable release yet.",[13,1612,1613],{},"Thanks so much for being a part of our journey and allowing us to be a part of yours.",{"title":189,"searchDepth":190,"depth":190,"links":1615},[],[],"2017-05-25T00:00:00.000Z","Axure was born when Victor and Martin were working together at a Bay Area startup and went looking for a better tool to help them gather requirements and produce specifications, wireframes, and prototypes.",{"src":1620},"/images/2017/05/axure-turns-15-featured.png",{},"/blog/axure-turns-15",{"src":1620},{"title":1602,"description":1618},"blog/axure-turns-15","c6neBs2oK4fZlue5jANNOEVQlyz1u6ghDPeYxGxBA3k",{"id":1628,"title":1629,"author":8,"body":1630,"categories":1660,"date":1662,"description":1663,"extension":203,"featuredImage":204,"mainImage":1664,"meta":1665,"navigation":208,"path":1666,"previewImage":1667,"seo":1669,"stem":1670,"tags":204,"__hash__":1671},"blog/blog/enhance-widget-libraries-custom-widget-icons-tooltips.md","Enhance Your Widget Libraries with Custom Widget Icons, Tooltips, and More",{"type":10,"value":1631,"toc":1658},[1632,1635,1641,1644,1651],[13,1633,1634],{},"Recently on the blog we've been talking about widget libraries: how to download and use libraries built by other people and how to make your own widget libraries using Axure RP. You may have noticed that some of the libraries available for download have some nice finishing touches, like custom widget icons, tooltips, folders, and widget styles. Today, I'll demonstrate how easy it is to add these flourishes to your own widget libraries.",[13,1636,1637,1640],{},[22,1638,1639],{},"Custom widget icons and tooltips can be added to a widget via the Inspector's \"Properties\" tab"," when you've got your library open for editing in Axure RP. Here's an animation of the procedure for adding them:",[13,1642,1643],{},"You can see in the animation that my \"warning message\" widget originally used a thumbnail view of the entire widget as its icon, which wasn't ideal in this case because a shrunk-down version of this very wide widget didn't communicate much visually. This particular widget really benefits from having a custom icon instead.",[13,1645,1646,1647,1650],{},"Widget folders, another nice touch, are quite easy to implement in your widget library: add them via the Widget Library Pages pane, just how you would do via the corresponding Pages pane in a regular project. Any ",[22,1648,1649],{},"folders you add to your library will show up as collapsible sections"," when the library is loaded into the Libraries pane for use in another project.",[13,1652,1653,1654,1657],{},"Widget styles also work just the same in widget libraries as they do in regular projects. And if you add a style to a widget in your library, that ",[22,1655,1656],{},"style will be automatically imported into any project when you add that widget to a page",". Convenient! (We recommend naming any styles used in widget libraries something library-specific, like \"Lib. Warning Text\", to avoid unintentional overlaps with widget styles already in the target project.)",{"title":189,"searchDepth":190,"depth":190,"links":1659},[],[642,1661],"widget libraries","2017-05-02T00:00:00.000Z","Recently on the blog we've been talking about widget libraries: how to download and use libraries built by other people and how to make your own widget libraries using Axure RP.",{"src":204},{},"/blog/enhance-widget-libraries-custom-widget-icons-tooltips",{"src":1668},"/images/2019/04/_zkxpsgogkg.jpg",{"title":1629,"description":1663},"blog/enhance-widget-libraries-custom-widget-icons-tooltips","x75eGNf0CkKxA_1snyLINgjatDLiBcKHlriwFRRzAfo",{"id":1673,"title":1674,"author":8,"body":1675,"categories":1814,"date":1819,"description":1820,"extension":203,"featuredImage":204,"mainImage":1821,"meta":1823,"navigation":208,"path":1358,"previewImage":1824,"seo":1825,"stem":1826,"tags":204,"__hash__":1827},"blog/blog/amy-espinosa-world-ia-day.md","Amy Espinosa of World IA Day",{"type":10,"value":1676,"toc":1808},[1677,1684,1687,1691,1700,1703,1707,1714,1721,1746,1749,1753,1760,1763,1774,1779,1782,1785,1789,1792,1799],[13,1678,1679,1683],{},[37,1680,1682],{"href":1352,"rel":1681},[41],"World Information Architecture Day",", now in its sixth year, is taking place this Saturday at over 50 locations across five continents. The distributed conference subsists on the efforts of a small army of volunteer IA professionals, from local speakers and organizers to the global leadership team. Last March, in preparation for the 2017 event, the WIAD organization named Tampa-based information architect and consultant Amy Espinosa to the rotating position of Global Executive Producer.",[13,1685,1686],{},"One of the responsibilities of Amy's role this past year has been to oversee the development of an updated WIAD website. We spoke to Amy earlier this month about the website project's goals and challenges: leveraging a limited budget and a distributed team to enable smarter content, prioritize accessibility, and implement sound IA for an IA-savvy audience, all while laying a foundation for an even bigger and better celebration next year and beyond.",[30,1688,1690],{"id":1689},"the-distributed-team","The Distributed Team",[13,1692,1693,1694,1699],{},"For an organization responsible for coordinating 58 simultaneous events comprising hundreds of speakers and thousands of attendees, ",[37,1695,1698],{"href":1696,"rel":1697},"http://2017.worldiaday.org/about-us",[41],"the WAID2017 global team"," is admirably lean, at just 13 people. Of these 13, three contributed to this year's website project: Samantha Raddatz, along with Amy, handled the IA, and Whitney Quesenbery lent her expertise to making the site more accessible for people who experience disabilities. Also along for the ride was a vendor—the team's web development firm—responsible for implementing the results of their design and architecture work.",[13,1701,1702],{},"With Amy in Tampa, Sam and Whitney in New York City, and the vendor in the UK, getting the team together to spitball ideas at the local coffee shop was out of the question. Instead, they relied on email, Google Docs and Hangouts, and Axure RP with Axure Share to swap ideas, refine designs, and build and deliver specifications to their developer.",[30,1704,1706],{"id":1705},"new-engine-same-hood","New Engine, Same Hood",[13,1708,1709,1710,1713],{},"One goal Amy specifically did ",[45,1711,1712],{},"not"," have for this year's site: a new look and feel. \"Our current website was rebuilt for WIAD2016 and was something I inherited,\" she told us. The visual and UX design choices still felt sound, so there was no reason to overhaul them on a tight timeline with limited budget and staff.",[13,1715,1716,1717,1720],{},"Under the hood, however, the 2016 site needed some attention before it could be repurposed. Amy knew this first-hand: \"As an organizer for 2016 ",[250,1718,1719],{},"for the Tampa WIAD celebration"," I ran into many challenges, as did others. Before we launched this year's instance, I reviewed the feedback from our location organizers last year and planned to make modifications to improve the website to better serve their needs.\" As Amy and Sam evaluated and ranked priorities, a shortlist of goals emerged:",[682,1722,1723,1737,1740,1743],{},[672,1724,1725,1726,1731,1732,1106],{},"A better way for local affiliates to add content to location pages (for reference, here's ",[37,1727,1730],{"href":1728,"rel":1729},"http://2016.worldiaday.org/location/new-york-city-new-york-united-states",[41],"last year's"," versus ",[37,1733,1736],{"href":1734,"rel":1735},"http://2017.worldiaday.org/location/new-york-city-new-york-united-states",[41],"this year's New York City location page",[672,1738,1739],{},"An easier way for visitors to the site to access live streams",[672,1741,1742],{},"A content archive page, collecting live streams and other content for posterity",[672,1744,1745],{},"Level AA conformance to the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines",[13,1747,1748],{},"Though the site's home page as well as its overall look and feel throughout would remain largely unchanged from the 2016 edition, significant work was needed in the areas of IA, accessibility evaluation and testing, and \"middle-end\" web development—to drive location pages via database—in order to make the site more usable and useful for organizers and visitors. (Ed note: We'll be looking at the WIAD team's accessibility work in more detail in an Axure blog feature later this year dedicated to accessibility and prototyping.)",[30,1750,1752],{"id":1751},"deadlines-and-data-models","Deadlines and Data Models",[13,1754,1755,1756,1759],{},"Amy and the team began their work with a focus on the site's location pages. \"We wanted to make it much easier for organizers to add content to their location pages. Last year, what they got ",[250,1757,1758],{},"in the CMS backend"," was a giant text box with very little support for formatting. We reviewed content on every location page from 2016 and looked at the patterns of common information added. We designed a screen that broke out things like Venue, Sponsors, Speakers, Local Team—and then gave organizers the ability to create individual program items organized by time. This was a baby step to start creating a different data model so we could eventually create relationships between sections. For example, Speakers could eventually be linked to a program item, and Local Team could eventually be something location organizers could add themselves.\"",[13,1761,1762],{},"The team's process favored tools geared toward distributed collaboration. \"We first planned the changes using Axure. Once finalized, they were shared using Axure Share and Google Docs. We had a few meetings via Hangouts and chatted via email regarding questions, constraints and timeline.\"",[13,1764,1765,1766,1769,1770,1773],{},"\"",[250,1767,1768],{},"Axure RP and Axure Share"," helped me communicate proposed changes and gave us a visual tool to start discussing concepts. Once the ideas were understood, the vendor defaulted back to their own methods and processes. Axure RP also helped document some of the work we have done, not only on the website, but also for our guidebook ",[250,1771,1772],{},"for future WIAD organizers"," and call-for-locations process flow.\"",[805,1775,1776],{},[13,1777,1778],{},"Axure RP and Axure Share helped me communicate proposed changes and gave us a visual tool to start discussing concepts. Once the ideas were understood, our developers defaulted back to their own methods and processes.",[13,1780,1781],{},"The location page changes were finished in time to debut with the 2017 site, and so far the reception from organizers has been positive. Other planned changes, such as the dedicated live-streaming page and content archive, will have to wait until next year.",[13,1783,1784],{},"\"We had a limited budget to work with and needed to plan to make incremental changes that would move us closer to our long term goals,\" Amy told us. \"While we haven't been able to make all of the changes we wanted this year, we've done some of the hard work to make them a reality for 2018. We'll start building our live-streaming page and content archive in April.\"",[30,1786,1788],{"id":1787},"architecting-the-future","Architecting the Future",[13,1790,1791],{},"Regarding the work left to do, Amy is pragmatic. \"Much of Sam's and my focus this year was to strengthen the foundation so that the work would be easier to manage as World IA Day grows. I think we have done some great work that will enable our successors to hit the ground running and give them more time to set and achieve more IA-oriented objectives while still serving our community with the annual tasks that need to be done. My hope is to have accomplished the task of getting things in order so knowledge is not lost and the transition annually is smooth.\"",[13,1793,1794,1795,1798],{},"We asked whether doing IA was different when the audience was particularly IA-savvy. Would the work be held to a higher standard? Would any judgement perhaps be harsher? Quite the opposite, it turns out. \"Many of the things Sam and I did this year were based on the suggestions of our organizers. We have a very collaborative and supportive community. And the beauty of our community is that people appreciate your effort no matter what. World IA Day is completely run by volunteers so they know that ",[250,1796,1797],{},"the global team"," care and that we're trying our best. They never call you out for mistakes, and believe me I have made many. Instead they are just supportive and offer suggestions and kindness.\"",[13,1800,1801,1802,1807],{},"If you'd like to become a part of the (collaborative and supportive) World IA Day community, consider hosting a WIAD2018 celebration in your own city. Amy tells us that the application period for next year will be opening this coming May or June. And if you live in a city that is already one of the ",[37,1803,1806],{"href":1804,"rel":1805},"http://2017.worldiaday.org/locations",[41],"WIAD locations for this year",", getting involved is even easier—just head on down to your local event this weekend.",{"title":189,"searchDepth":190,"depth":190,"links":1809},[1810,1811,1812,1813],{"id":1689,"depth":190,"text":1690},{"id":1705,"depth":190,"text":1706},{"id":1751,"depth":190,"text":1752},{"id":1787,"depth":190,"text":1788},[1815,1816,1817,833,939,1818],"Amy Espinosa","information architecture","Samantha Raddatz","World IA Day","2017-02-16T00:00:00.000Z","World Information Architecture Day, now in its sixth year, is taking place this Saturday at over 50 locations across five continents. The distributed conference subsists on the efforts of a small army of volunteer IA professionals, from local speakers and organizers to the global leadership team.",{"src":1822},"/images/2019/04/oyuxvzq-7po.jpg",{},{"src":1822},{"title":1674,"description":1820},"blog/amy-espinosa-world-ia-day","CJp0o4ax5IHMYXnZmVbjse5xRuF7vCLHM7GFKp_IVmg",126]