I found that a sketchiness of 33 out of 100 seems to provide the most realistic to hand drawn wireframes.Ĭolour – Selecting whether the wireframes should be colour or black and white is fairly straight forward. This ranges from the standard straight lines seen on usual wireframes to wavy lines that looked like they have been drawn by a child. Sketchiness – Playing with this functionality shows you just how sketchy the wireframe can be.
This functionality sits neatly at the bottom of the interface alongside ‘page notes’ and ‘page interactions’ and allows you to quickly alter clean straight-lined wireframes into the sketchy hand drawn look and feel that I was after.Īlthough the functionality is still quite limited here (only 4 main controls), they still offer enough to make them work.
#Axure wireframe how to#
How to create sketched style in Axureįinding the sketch effects functionality in Axure 6.0 was a nice surprise and seemed to give me the possibility of the best of both worlds – sketchy hand drawn wireframes but with the ease and speed of using specialist software. I wanted to get honest thoughts and feelings and I was worried that anything looking too ‘polished’ would make the work look finished, so I felt the only option was to present them with sketchy looking wireframes so they can see the work was still in progress.
#Axure wireframe series#
On a recent project for a well-known charity, I needed to present a series of rough concept ideas to participants in focus groups to see which ideas they engage with. Most wireframes look ‘final’ when they are still just concepts As much as I try, I struggle to create realistic looking wireframes and am constantly starting again and again until I give up in frustration.
However, as much as I like hand drawn wireframes, for me sketching on a pad of paper is extremely difficult and time consuming. The sketchy lines and hand drawn icons always help me to see the wireframe as one possible idea rather than a final solution.ĭon’t get me wrong, I like presenting the slick high fidelity html prototypes to clients in the final stages of the UX project but early on when ideas are forming and the possibilities are endless, sketchy paper wireframes always add an element of excitement.
There is something about hand drawn paper wireframes that I have always liked.
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