Axure RP 6 Prototyping Essentials

To sync or not to sync?

Should the prototype be aligned with the application's visual design? The benefits are substantial:

• Stakeholders and participants in usability testing can provide a valuable response to the overall look and feel of the proposed user experience. Response to a change is inherent in user experience prototyping projects.
• Less confusion during development. The developers can easily see, both in the HTML prototype and the Word specifications, what it is that they are supposed to code.

The second item is actually very important. When the prototype is kept at its basic grayscale, low fidelity design, there is a need to manage two different types of wireframes:

• The wireframes of record, which are wireframes created in our Axure prototype. ...