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Axure RP

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What is Axure RP?

Axure RP is a software prototyping tool used by UX designers, from Axure Software Solutions in San Diego.

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Still top for dynamic wireframes

9 out of 10
January 04, 2024
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What is Axure RP?

Axure RP is a software prototyping tool used by UX designers, from Axure Software Solutions in San Diego.

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Product Details

What is Axure RP?

Axure RP is a software prototyping tool used by UX designers to plan, prototype and hand off projects to developers, all without code.

Axure RP Features

  • Supported: Powerfull Prototyping
  • Supported: Developer Handoff
  • Supported: Visual Specifications

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Axure RP Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Mac
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android

Frequently Asked Questions

Axure RP is a software prototyping tool used by UX designers, from Axure Software Solutions in San Diego.

InVision, Marvel, and Figma are common alternatives for Axure RP.

Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of Axure RP are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Axure is a versatile tool that is widely used in the software development industry by various professionals to bridge the gap between design and production. UX designers, business analysts, and interaction designers rely on Axure to create low-fidelity and high-fidelity wireframes. This enables them to visualize and communicate their design concepts effectively within software development teams. Additionally, the product positioning team finds Axure invaluable for building controlled static demos that replicate live sites for sales demonstrations. This allows for a quick and efficient showcase of the software solution, facilitating effective communication with potential clients.

Marketing departments also benefit from Axure's capabilities as it provides more tools compared to other prototyping software like Balsamic. It allows marketers to quickly create mocks and wireframes for department pages, aiding in the visual communication of marketing strategies. Moreover, Axure has become the industry standard for prototyping, making it an essential tool for creating high-fidelity, interactive prototypes used in sales demos and collaboration with external designers. The tool is also extensively utilized for concepting and prototyping new products and features, as well as enhancing existing ones. This enables early usability testing and analysis, ensuring that user needs are met before investing time and resources into full-scale development.

Axure is particularly useful in user experience design projects where interactive prototypes are required to showcase concept animations and fully functional pages. The tool's capabilities have been successfully demonstrated in projects such as simulating wireframes for new importation portals, impressing business clients with its ability to bring design concepts to life. Additionally, users have found Axure to be a valuable asset in defining functional requirements and visualizing screen designs for their organizations. Overall, Axure's versatility, ease of use, and wide range of functionalities make it an indispensable tool in various domains within the software development industry.

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.

Outdated User Interface: Many users have expressed their dissatisfaction with Axure's outdated and clunky user interface, finding it difficult to navigate and not very intuitive. This has led to a slower design process and increased frustration among users.

Steep Learning Curve: Several reviewers have mentioned the steep learning curve of Axure, especially for those without experience in Javascript or Actionscript. This has made it challenging for new users to get up to speed quickly and efficiently use the software.

Lack of Collaboration Features: Users have found that Axure lacks robust collaboration and version control features, making it difficult for multiple people to work on the same design file and manage design changes. This has hindered effective teamwork and coordination among designers using Axure.

Users commonly recommend the following:

  • Take advantage of the Axure community and resources. Many users suggest utilizing the rich plugins and solutions available in the Axure community. They also recommend watching helpful videos on the Axure forum and tutorials on YouTube to learn how to use the tool effectively. Additionally, users suggest taking advantage of the free training offered by Axure to ease the learning curve.

  • Invest time in learning Axure. Users advise taking time to thoroughly learn Axure as it is a comprehensive and robust prototyping tool. While they acknowledge that it can be complicated initially, they believe that investing time in learning the software can yield great benefits. Users recommend starting with a free trial and doing research before using Axure.

  • Use Axure for wireframing and prototyping. Many users think that Axure is a great tool for wireframing and prototyping designs quickly. They recommend using Axure for products with a lot of functionality or for usability testing. However, users suggest keeping interactions simple and minimum viable, without focusing too much on the visual aspects. They also think that Axure is worth using for educational purposes and web development, as it helps expedite the product development process.

Note: These recommendations are based on user reviews and opinions, and may not necessarily reflect the views of all users.

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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
December 27, 2023

Axure can do everything!

Dan Clarke | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We tried Axure RP in our Marketing department. The goal was to find a tool that we could design and prototype digital experiences, collect feedback, and deliver a head start for development with exported code. Axure has been the industry standard for over a decade, so we decided to give it a whirl.
Josh Peichoto | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Kevin J. Hauger | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Axure RP to concept and prototype new product and features or enhance current product or features. We also use Axure generated prototypes for early usability testing of prototypes with users. It is used by just our department. It allows us to create rapidly build concepts of our products and share those with our users and allow us to analyze the validity of the feature or product.
Michael Al-Megdad | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The product positioning team uses Axure to build out controlled static demos that replicate our live site for our sales organization to use in demos. Axure allows us to build a narrative with a click path for our team too quickly and efficiently go through a demo. By giving our sales team a method of quickly showing a pixel perfect view of our software solution we're able to showcase our offering quickly and accurately.
Stephanie Martin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Axure is used to create very robust, hi-fi interactive UX/UI prototypes, more so that can be achieved with competitive software. I primarily use it when demonstrating design concepts to other designers, since there is no straightforward sharing functionality, though it seems to be considered industry-standard by some when it comes to prototyping.
Jakub Wilk | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
One picture is worth more than 1000 words, Enovatio is a producer of software and is much cheaper for us to prepare prototype of application that develop this, on top it help us very much in communication between programmer and customer.
Deionna Adams | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Axure is currently only used in the marketing department. It allows the development team to put together mocks and wireframes much faster for department pages within the college. This type of organizational design was previously done in Balsamic, however, Axure has more tools. Axure does have a higher learning curve.

Axure is also useful for higher fidelity prototyping. I would like to see the tools for prototyping expanded however right now this is the best program outside of Sketch (Sketch is only available on Mac).
Doug Raymond | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Useagility's four interaction designers and visual designers use Axure every day to illustrate and visualize findings from direct user research. Weekly design studio meetings allow each designer to present current work and receive collaborative feedback from each other. A Slack channel is used to share insights, ideas, plugin recommendations, and best practices for improved productivity with Axure.
Samantha Bollmann | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Axure is used by business analysts at our company to create mockups of our various web properties before they are coded by developers. Some of our business analysts create these mockups in the context of agile scrum teams. Creating these mockups helps to provide a visual guide for developers before they start coding as well as give something to stakeholders so they have an idea of what to expect in the end product.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Axure is one of the tools we use here at our company to build wire frames and prototypes for our clients. We publish prototypes so that when we present to our clients, they can have a clear understanding of the direction and flow of the product we are working on for them.
May 26, 2016

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Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Axure for wireframing concepts and creating user experience solutions within the design team. Axure is great because we can share the link amongst the entire team for everyone to review. It's also great for replicating real scenarios and websites without having to know code. I also like that teammates can add annotations to the wireframes. When you hit "Preview" a true to life picture of what you create appears with those annotations listed for the entire document. It's great for conveying usability, ideas and concepts to large teams!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It was used in our department.
The business clients (Line of business) ask our team to design a new "Excel" importation portal. I used Axure to simulate a 20-25 page wireframe.
They loved it and at some point they even thought the application was complete and i told them it was just a simulation.
If you get creative there is a lot more to be done with Axure!
In a few words we used it to create a solution for business clients
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I learned Axure at school and used it in my last 3 companies. I am still using Axure every day, and I strongly believe after all these years and with so many new prototyping tools around, Axure is still the best of all. Every single company that I been with, purchased Axure after seeing my first prototype. The learning curve of application is a little deep, and always I was the solo prototyper in the organization.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Axure tool has been a great asset in defining functional requirements. The tool has allowed me to streamline the document and provide a visual representation of how the screens will look. The tool is currently being used just in our department.
Lucas Roe | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are currently using Axure for quick proofs of concept. The biggest benefits we find from it are that it is easily shared with a link, so we can validate ideas quickly with our team. While the prototypes that we create in it don't produce usable code for our application, that freedom allows us to test things that may otherwise not be possible or easily implemented in the full product. Axure is currently only used by 2 members of our organization, but the two of us are the UX experts in the organization.
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