Category Archives: Design & Development

Axure RP Pro 5.5 Beta is Now Available

The upcom­ing 5.5 ver­sion of Axure RP Pro has been made pub­lic and is avail­able for down­load. For any­one who’s been inter­ested by Axure and wanted to try it, now is a great time to do so. The beta is rock solid and, if I under­stand the fol­low­ing blog post on Axure’s site cor­rectly, it will expire…

Discussion on Standards for Axure Design Librairies on Axlib

As I men­tioned in my recent “My Top 10 Web Design Tools” post, I have started using Axure RP Pro for cre­at­ing highly inter­ac­tive pro­to­types, wire­frames, site maps , flow charts and spec­i­fi­ca­tions. It is a fan­tas­tic appli­ca­tion with a lot of depth that can cre­ate very com­plex pro­to­types. Axure also has a grow­ing com­mu­nity around it and, in recent…

Do You Listen to Music While Working?

There is a meme pop­ping on Twitter and the blo­gos­phere where some Web pro­fes­sion­als are won­der­ing if it is a good thing to lis­ten to music while work­ing or not. I had been reflect­ing on that very thing recently so this comes at a timely moment for me. Of course, to a point this comes down to per­sonal pref­er­ences but it…

My Top 10 Web Design Tools

I had already started work­ing on a blog post with my top 10 most use­ful Web design tools but, like many other things these days, I had con­tin­u­ally post­poned fin­ish­ing it in favor of “more impor­tant things”. Like client work… But I saw a post today on the Visualrinse blog that tack­led the same topic so it prompted me…

What About that Fireworks CS4?

Although the new ver­sion of Fireworks has been in pub­lic beta for a while now, I haven’t talked much about it here yet. Not because it’s not an excit­ing release, quite the oppo­site, but only because until a month ago I was basi­cally work­ing 2 full time jobs and since I turned a full time free­lancer, I’ve worked hard at set­ting up…