I often found myself smiling at the anecdotes that Schwartz and Srail generously provide. It is well structured, beautifully presented, and has a quasi-conversational style, making it engaging and easy to read. I was pleased to find that the overall format of this book is identical to that of Schwartz’s first book about Axure, Axure RP 6 Prototyping Essentials. In addition to the paperback book, an ebook is available for about $33. Potential Axure users may be interested in the relationship and differences between these two types of resources for learning Axure-other than the obvious one of cost. In Prototyping Essentials with Axure, the authors, Ezra Schwartz and Elizabeth Srail, provide comprehensive information about using Axure to prototype user interfaces.Īs the CEO of Ax-Stream, Axure’s approved training and consulting partner for Europe, I’ll state up front that my opinion about any instructional book on Axure is inevitably from the perspective of how the book compares with, and might complement, Ax-Stream’s Axure training courses. This review covers only the work of Schwartz, Srail, and the other contributors. I contributed to “Practitioners’ Corner” myself, but have no financial stake in this book and, other than my own contribution, I had no idea what would be in the book. I am less familiar with Srail’s work, but what I do know leads me to believe that she is also an accomplished UX professional and Axure expert.Īppendix A: “Practitioners’ Corner” boasts contributions from Axure experts around the world, who will be familiar to many in the Axure community-the majority of whom I know personally. He wrote the first-ever book on Axure and founded -an excellent, not-for-profit resource for the Axure community. Schwartz is a heavyweight UX professional and strategist, as well as a leading figure in the Axure community. As for all of my book reviews, I began by looking at the pedigree of the book’s authors and other contributors.
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