On 5/19/08, Alinta Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Can anyone point me to shape libraries for Axure? The drawing tools are > so limited.
What shapes are you looking for? While there are no libraries out there that I know of, Axure does allow you to make "custom widgets." What you do is create a master, right-click on the master, and select Behavior > Custom Widget. What this does is to change the behavior of the master such that when you assign it to any page, you can edit each of these instances (if you edit the master, though, the changes are not reflected in the on-page instances). You can make this even more powerful by assigning regular masters *to* your custom widget masters to create large, complex "shapes." I use this to make page types. I'll assign my top navigation master, left navigation master, and right sidebar master (or whatever they all happen to be) to my custom widget, and then I'll add individual widgets (text widgets, form fields, etc.). I'll do this for each page type on the site. Then when I create a page that needs to be, e.g., a "hub page," I'll drag the Hub Page custom widget to the new page and just change the stuff in the content area. This saves huge amounts of time. Another thing we've done at our organization is to develop a template. We use it in one of two ways. We either start Axure projects using the template, or we import custom widgets from it into our new projects. In essence, it's a pseudo pattern library. Do you have particular shapes or interactions you do the same way each time? If so, I encourage you to set these all up as custom widgets in one Axure file and use that file as a template like I described above. That will get you to your shape libraries. If you want advice on how to create particular shapes, feel free to contact me off list. Take care, F. ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
