Will Hacker - Mobile Prototyping with Axure 7

Will Hacker is a Lead Interaction Designer at GE Capital, where he works on multidevice designs for commercial lending software. He's used Axure for several years as part of his iterative design and prototyping process, and spent two and a half years working exclusively on mobile design, prototyping, and usability testing for Cars.com. He has also written about user experience and mobile design for Smashing Magazine and UX Booth , and is a frequent speaker at UX design events in Chicago. He holds a Master's degree in Human-computer Interaction from DePaul University. He tweets at @willhacker and blogs at willhacker.net.

No book is ever written by just one person. There are always people working behind the scenes to make it come together. I'd like to thank my editors, Neil Alexander and Neha Nagwekar, for proposing the idea for this book and for guiding it to completion. Thank you for your faith in me. I also want to thank Sageer Parkar for coordinating the project and keeping us all on task. Thanks also goes to my technical editors Harshad Vairat and Novina Kewalramani. Their attention to the small details was invaluable. I also want to thank my reviewers Matt Goddard and Jan Tom. Additional thanks goes to my friends and colleagues Svetlin Denkov, Marina Lin, and Larry Vance, who read rough draft chapters and provided feedback and encouragement throughout the project. This book would not have come together without their support and honest critique. Thanks also to Ezra Schwartz, who encouraged me to pursue the project and provided advice and inspiration along the way. And finally, a special thanks to my wife, Kathy, who offered encouragement, patience, and understanding during long nights and weekends at the keyboard. Her belief in me makes everything I do possible.

Svetlin Denkov is a UX Prototyper at GN ReSound in Chicago, where he builds highly interactive prototypes for mobile and tablet devices. He has used Axure for several years as his tool of choice for building and testing iterative prototypes. He holds a Master's degree in HCI from DePaul University. He is also a local leader for the Chicago Chapter of IxDA, which introduces technology events to the UX Chicago community monthly. He regularly contributes at the Chicago Axure Meetup, and helps others on the Axure forums as an expert user under the name light_forger. He tweets about UX, innovation, and technology at @svetlindenkov and can be reached at www.linkedin.com/in/svetlindenkov.

Matt Goddard has worked in the user experience / software development industry for over 15 years. Through his company, UX Media, he helps his clients to understand the demands of their products or services on their customer's life and offers them strategies for matching business and customer goals.

Marina Lin is an Interaction Designer for mobile apps at Cars.com where she uses Axure for prototyping Android and iOS apps. She holds a Master's degree in Information Architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology. She recently contributed a chapter to the textbook Negotiating Cultural Encounters: Narrating Intercultural Engineering and Technical Communication . Her work has also appeared in Boxes and Arrows , User Experience Magazine , and Business Communication Quarterly .

Jan Tom found the beauty of user experience design during his studies at the Czech Technical University in Prague and Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. Currently, he works as a User Experience Specialist at GMC Software Technology which delivers solutions in the field of customer communications management in all over the world. His specialization deals with user research and prototyping. He uses Axure RP on a daily basis for prototyping web and mobile applications to communicate his designs with developers, managers, and other stakeholders. He is also an active member of the user experience community. He organizes meetings called UX Circus Show every month to share knowledge and to show that their jobs can be fun.

Larry Vance has been practicing UX since 1999. He's currently a Senior Interaction Designer at Cars.com, responsible for inventory search and listings. He was hooked on Axure from day one and is convinced it's well on its way to becoming "the Photoshop of Interaction Design".

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