I've been a huge fan of Axure since making the switch from Visio. Axure sacrifices some control of the visual-flourishes that Visio allows, but if you are prototyping in low-fidelity then this is not a problem. In terms of learning curve, like others have said, it's basically similar to Visio plus extra interactive functionality. Learning these additional features is both fun and useful.
As for AJAX, the Axure community has been thriving and people are working on these problems as we speak. For instance, Jeff Harrison recently came up with a very nice Drag & Drop simulation (see http://axure.com/cs/forums/post/4059.aspx - you need Axure to open it and generate to HTML). Animations are possible, they just require some magic and patience. Here's an animated drawer, for example: http://iconicarts.110mb.com/axure/drawer/ And never, ever use the prototype HTML in real production! Loren ----- http://acleandesign.com On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Gloria Petron <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Helen, > Once I started using Axure, I couldn't go back. I'm able to mock up > behavioral examples such as search and dynamic menus much more quickly than > I did in Dreamweaver. > Best, > Gloria > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ________________________________________________________________ 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
