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Prototyping - the landscape and review of Axure RP Pro

with Alan Trow-Poole and Ritch Macefield

23rdJun '09

About the event

User Centred Design (UCD) intrinsically requires the iterative development and testing of prototypes. Over the years there have been many approaches to prototyping and today a number of different approaches are still in common use throughout our discipline. Tonight's presentation will first provide an overview of the prototyping landscape. It will then provide a review and demonstration of Axure RP Pro, a-state-of-the-art dedicated prototyping tool. This will include explanation of how Axure RP Pro can be used to design wireframes and interactions, produce specification documents, and produce functioning prototypes designed for usability testing. If you have always wanted to learn more about how prototyping can be applied as part of your development design process, tonight's event will be a valuable introduction to this topic.

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Alan Trow-Poole is User Experience Designer and Information Architect at the Icon Studio

Alan has 26 years experience in the IT industry and a blue chip background - working for Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), he was promoted to the rank of Senior Consultant. He has 15 years experience as a UX/AI/Usability professional working for e.g., PeopleSoft, nPower and Bank of America. His international experience covers the UK, France, Italy, Germany, and the USA. As a trainer/educator: Alan has been a guest lecturer on Design for the WWW at the University of California. He earned the "President's Award for Excellence" for his training contribution on the launch of Manman/X at ASK computers. Alan also contributed to "HTML publishing on the internet" (2nd edition) - an international best seller.

Ritch Macefield is Director and HCI Consultant at Shannon-Weaver Ltd and Co-founder of AXTrainers.

Ritch has 24 years experience in the IT industry and a blue chip background - working for Data General Corporation, he was promoted to be the UK's youngest ever Senior Consultant. He has 12 years experience as a UX/AI/Usability professional working for e.g., Electronic Data Systems (EDS), UniLever and British Gas. Ritch is also a published author on usability in referred journals/books, and was part of the editorial team for the "Encyclopedia of human computer interaction" (2007). As a trainer/educator: Ritch is a qualified technology teacher (Cert. Ed), European Union (EU) approved "IT trainer-trainer" and has spent 16 years as a part-time Senior University Lecturer (Associate Professor) in IT. He has qualified as a licensed Master Practitioner in Neuro Linguistic Programming (Master/Prac NLP), has a certificate in NLP Techniques for Advanced Learning and Facilitation, and a certificate in Transactional Analysis (TA). Ritch has also published numerous papers on IT education and advanced communications skills in referred journals/books, as well as co-authoring three books on IT and education.

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