TrustRadius Insights for Axure RP are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Valuable for creating interactive prototypes: Many users have found Axure to be a valuable tool for creating interactive prototypes that closely resemble the finished product. They appreciate how easy it is to demonstrate their ideas to clients using Axure's features, such as pasting images and turning them into buttons.
Effective for prototyping mobile and tablet applications: Several reviewers have highlighted Axure's effectiveness in prototyping mobile and tablet applications. They find the platform useful for creating responsive design prototypes with interactive, clickable features and multi-state situations.
Great for organizing requirements: Users have praised Axure for its ability to organize requirements in detail. They find the feature of adding footnotes particularly useful for describing actions of each field and adding interactions. This helps them create clear and comprehensive prototypes while ensuring all necessary details are included.
This is a must-have software when developing a fully clickable prototype with variations. Axure allows for preparing a polished prototype that may be tested with the users before the development process starts. As a result it makes the development process easier and saves the budget for the team. Furthermore, UX-wise the team may provide better user experience for solutions developed by the company. It is a win-win situation for both: the provider and the client.
Pros
Prototyping
Variations
User experience design
User interface design
Variable user flow
Cons
Real-time collaboration
Friendlier user interface
A wider range of graphic design features
Likelihood to Recommend
Axure works best if you want to test your solutions and approve user flows designed on ideation & modelling stage. Prototype testing and iteration of testing allows for provision of beast possible UX for users, which is a key cause for using the tool by designers. And it reduces the development cost for both: the client and the provider.
VU
Verified User
Contributor in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
We use Axure RP as our preferred tool of choice for the ux designers at an ecommerce online retailer. We use Axure RP to create project deliverables for various project stages like wireframes, prototypes, sitemaps, flowcharts, and personas for web, IOS and Android platforms. These deliverables are then presented and shared with developers, stakeholders and Project Managers for review.
Pros
Created high fidelity wireframes
Create HTML based interactive prototypes
Allow for notes and annotations
Allows for comments from reviewers
Cons
Example site templates
File size reduction
Performance issues if the file is too big
Likelihood to Recommend
Axure RP is well suited to creating project deliverables for various project stages like wireframes, prototypes, sitemaps, flowcharts, and personas for web, IOS and Android platforms. This allows for in device user testing on projects. The scenarios that it is less appropriate is in creating pixels perfect UI designs as it's vector flexibility is not as strong as tools like Figma or Sketch.
This tool is used to create prototypes of new designs for our website, which are then circulated with key stakeholders prior to creating higher-fidelity designs. It is used by the web team only and allows us to be more flexible than we were prior to getting the tool.
Pros
Low fidelity designs.
Wireframing.
Idea/concept sharing
Cons
More tooltips with functionality.
Easier sharing functionality.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is very well suited to web design projects. I’m not sure what else it could be used for, e.g., print or out-of-home marketing designs, as this is outside my remit of work.
We use Axure RP for wireframing human-computer interfaces and particularly for dynamic prototyping i.e. creating mid-fi designs which need variables and/or short scripts to simulate 'customised' on-page interactions behaviours (behaviours that are not pre-programmed into library widgets). This is quite a specialised use case, as staff and students alike find more 'static' prototypes (screen1 - click - screen2) produced with xd and/or figma suffices for most kinds of User Experience teaching and practice. However, for my teaching and research projects, which might involve designing new interactive widgets for map-based search, or novel interactive diagrams, I find Axure RP to be the more powerful tool
Pros
case or switch statements based on variables
simulations of drag and drop
writing structured scripts
Cons
repeaters (widgets that load data values from spreadsheets) could be more intuitive
responsive design - could go further to simulate responsive widgets
3D immersive interactions - 2D only currently. 3D immersive is a big ask, but there is a need for it.
Likelihood to Recommend
Still the best IMHO for dynamic prototyping. Sometimes you need to wireframe novel on-page widgets, such as draggable search areas (in the context of map-based search), or interactive annotations on diagrams. And sometimes real data values are necessary for test participants to give good feedback. However, this is something of a niche scenario. The majority of uxers prefer xd or figma and find that static prototypes (screen1->click->screen2) is sufficient.
VU
Verified User
Professional in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)
We use Axure to create interactive prototypes of hardware and software products, which are then taken to usability tests with representative users. We then test the prototypes to measure the impact of the design and find areas of improvement. Axure allows us to create complex prototypes that other prototyping tools simply don't offer.
Pros
Logic-based prototyping
Prototype hosting
Animations
Integrations
Cons
Integration of audio playback
Automated layout tools for different platforms (mobile, desktop)
Live collaboration
Likelihood to Recommend
Axure is great for creating complex prototypes that require logic. It takes a bit of learning compared to other tools like Adobe XD, but offers so much more control and customization to make a truly legitimate prototype to test. If you are a UX Design beginner looking to mock up basic websites, then other tools such as Figma may be more appropriate.
We use Axure RP for prototyping new banking software. Several groups [in our organization] use it.
Pros
Prototypes
Mockups
Simulations
Cons
[I feel] they release new versions too soon. [In my opinion,] they are buggy and unreliable.
[In my opinion,] they do not handle complex pages well (though they think they do.)
[I think the] tables are a joke. [In my opinion, they are] made up of multiple rectangles [and] very inefficient.
[In my experience,] check-ins often fail due to "No Internet Connection", which, [in my opinion], isn't true [and I believe that's] just their catch-all.
Likelihood to Recommend
For simple mockups, Axure [RP] is great. [It is] very flexible, but, [in my experience,] if things start getting complex, don't expect Axure [RP] (or their support) to keep up.
We use Axure RP to quickly create interactive web and application prototypes. This allows us to test ideas, features, and interactivity without a sizable investment in time from our design and technical teams. Once finalized we use these Axure outputs as a guide and blueprint for our development teams for execution.
Pros
Create highly interactive deliverables.
Quickly test ideas.
Cons
Some of the interface is clunky.
Learning curve can be steep for some.
Likelihood to Recommend
Axure RP is a solid choice for creating complex and highly interactive prototypes. This product leans more toward offering high interactivity, where other products lean toward high design. Axure prototypes can be published online through AX Share which is a great way to circulate prototypes in a large organization with many stakeholders.
Axure RP enables my organization to perform rapid prototyping activities enabling our User Experience researchers to work directly with our User Interface designers to develop rapid prototypes based on customer feedback. This in turn allows our researchers to then present those prototypes back to customers for quick feedback on accuracy of design and opportunities for further improvement.
Pros
Rapid Prototyping - Enables user interface designers to quickly develop a wireframe that our researchers can put in front of our customers.
Fidelity - Axure enables our designers to choose a level of fidelity that is appropriate to the business case at hand.
Collaboration - Axure enables easy collaboration amongst our designers by having an easily portable file format.
Cons
Code Generation - Axure's code generation is adequate for prototyping, but for more in-depth functionality, it really only forms a basis from which software developers will either need to edit or replace.
Detail - Axure doesn't offer the ability to go to individual pixel scale, leaving designers to conduct such detail work in other tools.
Cost - Axure is very expensive. Though it is worth the cost, it becomes challenging to justify a license for every member of your team for collaboration purposes.
Likelihood to Recommend
Axure is the ideal tool for taking feedback from a customer workshop, returning to the office and developing prototypes for future application workflows. In turn, one can then return to the customer site, share the prototypes with the customer and receive feedback on those prototypes, including opportunities for improvement. This eliminates much of the product development uncertainty as to whether the development team is building the right thing for the customer.
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Research & Development (5001-10,000 employees)
<div class="row"><div>A subset of our design team is working with Axure to create high-fidelity, interactive prototypes for our sales team to demo for clients around the world in order to sell products in production before release. By providing our sales reps with clickable, realistic, and accurate prototypes to share and use with existing and potential clients, we’re often able to secure contracts well before a product is released (and after, for that matter!). It’s also nice to get feedback from these organizations that might inform changes we might want to make in a current or future iteration of a design.
Also, because Axure is considered to be the “industry standard” for prototyping, we also use the tool to collaborate with external designers, as they often already have the platform in their arsenals.
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Pros
Adaptive views enable us to create truly responsive designs, even when they are very complex.
The platform’s many available templates and ability to create a library of reusable designs enables us to prototype faster and more efficiently than creating every single design from the ground up.
The company provides a lot of support options, from training videos to online forums. This is a pretty complex tool, so knowing that we can always look up or ask a question and get a quick answer has helped us immensely.
Axure’s comprehensive suite of tools to portray interactivity in prototypes has truly helped us show stakeholders and clients what an end product will look like, which has really helped us gain necessary internal and external buy-in.
Cons
There’s a pretty steep learning curve to this tool. Even though everyone on my “sub-team” is pretty well versed in a wide array of prototyping tools, we’re still having some trouble figuring out some of Axure’s more complicated features, like repeater tables. This is a large reason why we are not using this tool beyond this small group of designers.
The interface is outdated and much less impressive than many other tools on the market, like InVision.
It’s pretty expensive. Even if we wanted to expand the use of Axure to the entire design team, we’d have a pretty tough time selling it to the higher-ups when there are plenty of comparable tools (a number of which we already have access to) that are much cheaper per user.
Likelihood to Recommend
Axure is a robust tool for teams who seek a reliable, proven, and powerful prototyping tool (and have the budget for it!). Because it has been around for a longer time than some similar products, it includes a ton of features to make incredibly realistic and interactive prototypes. Teams who use Axure will likely benefit from how the tool enables users to create master designs that designers can share and reuse, saving time that may otherwise have been spent building a design from the ground up. However, this tool can be very difficult for new users to learn, so it’s not a great solution for teams who don’t have a lot of wiggle room between adopting the tool and using it to create designs on a deadline. Also, the tool is less intuitive than some of its other competitors, which can make it more time-consuming to whip up a design. For teams who often need to iterate on prototypes quickly, Axure is likely not to be the most efficient solution.
VU
Verified User
Professional in Research & Development (51-200 employees)
Axure RP is used by the UX designers within many of the different software development teams. Axure RP is primarily used to create Low-Fidelity and High-Fidelity wireframes. Wireframes are then handed off to the UI developers with additional requirements and documentation. The wireframes are essentially a layout reference that ensures the development team builds out the designer's vision. Axure RP primarily helps us bridge the gap between the designer's vision (design solution) and production (working) software.
Pros
Axure RP allows you to use adaptive views which is great for responsive design and development.
Axure RP is a very robust prototyping tool that has the ability to add realistic interactions.
There are numerous templates and formats available for wires, user flows, etc.
Master styles make it easy to update design features across numerous project pages, taking out the monotonous work.
Cons
The user interface is somewhat old and not always the most intuitive.
I've been using Axure RP for 5 years and often forget that it has a steep learning curve, which makes it harder to onboard new employees.
The "teams" functionality, as far as working and sharing the same files, has some room for performance improvements.
Results of the Preview function varies per browser (although it works best on Chrome).
Likelihood to Recommend
Axure RP is a great user experience design toolkit that gives UX designers the ability to create user flows, Low-Fidelity, and High-Fidelity mockups all within the same tool. Overall, it works well with teams of designers looking to collaborate on the same project(s). Axure RP allows you to set up masters and components, giving you and your team the ability to share and re-use styled objects. This not only cuts down on the time allotted for wireframing, but it also means design styles are upheld and the overall software becomes more consistent. I would not recommend Axure for High-Fidelity visual design mockups (use Sketch App instead), as Axure is limited in it's the ability to style components.
