Estimating Axure work

It can be difficult to estimate the amount of Axure work that will be involved in an Agile or Waterfall-flavored projects. A few years ago, agreements could be easily made around the number of wireframes and the number of revisions—estimates that formed the basis for acceptance of work. If an interactive prototype was commissioned, it was a separate deliverable, typically coded by a frontend developer. However, with Axure, the boundaries are blurred, and consequently, the most fundamental of questions need to be considered in order to avoid costly misunderstandings.

For example, what is a wireframe? Suppose we agree that the home page is an example of a wireframe. Before Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), back in the days ...

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