![]() ![]() This should be an important reason for the decrease of Axure users after new prototyping tools show up. Although there are so many software developing teams here, usually there are only a few people in each team, the management is still remaining at the startup level, and the speed of software updating is way more important than the request of standard working flow. But in China, a large number of UI/UX designers haven’t yet reached the level of being master these skills. Judgement, condition, repeater and some other functions are pretty hard to learn. The setting is relatively difficult and lack of visualization. However, the defect of Axure in users experience is also quite obvious. The survey among senior Axure users shows that 80% core users need the judgement setting function. Such as the setting of judgement and condition. The reason why Axure has a good fame in China is not only the using inertia, but also the comprehensiveness of its function. Today, I'm gonna try to analyze the reasons why those four prototyping tools could have nice performances in China from the view of user experience which is the first thing of "Innovation 2.0".īroadly speaking, the "Axure" we talking about is Axure RP, equaling to Axure Rapid Prototyping. These four tools technically have taken control of a pretty large number of Chinese users. Generally, there are mainly four desktop prototyping tools in China: Axure RP, Balsamiq, Mockplus, and Justinmind. However, do you know which of them are the common prototyping tools in China? How the Chinese designers think of the performances of them? It makes you dazing when you have so many choices. It is pretty impressive, and of course, it would be very difficult for the software those coming from the foreign countries to do the same.Nowadays, there are many prototyping tools on the foreign lands, such as Pidoco, UXPIN, Proto.io 6, and InVision, etc. I have asked some questions in Mockplus official QQ group, and they replied to me quickly almost every time. Another important thing is that Mockplus’ develop team locates in China, which makes the support service pretty good. Also, Mockplus supports two styles for designing: sketch and wireframe. Meanwhile, Mockplus supports preview in comprehensive ways: real-time preview, picture, demo package, QR code scanning on App, real-time preview on App, HTML offline package, and HTML previews on cloud. And the high visualization during the operation is another scoring point. As a prototyping tool, it uses the way of dragging and dropping as the basis of operation. Chinese designer support their product should be one reason of Mockplus fast growth, but the most important thing is that Mockplus gives the user experience the highest priority. As time goes by, users have to give up on it.Īs a Chinese native software, Mockplus has accumulated a large number of users, only in two years after its release. More users prefer to pay less cost and gain more hi-fi prototypes. ![]() Balsamiq is the first one to publish the sketch style in prototype design, but in recent years, sketch style is not as popular as it was. It makes Chinese users love it but also hate it at the same time. This prototyping tool has entered Chinese market since the year of 2009, however, these problems still exist. Balsamiq doesn’t have interaction function. What’s more, it has stock at the level of designing static prototype. On the other hand, Balsamiq does not support App prototype design and real-time preview. Although this satisfies a minority of users, Balsamiq paid too much for this: the number of components is less than 100. This is so sweet for the users who love the sketch style. All the components of Balsamiq are in the style of sketch. Why? Because it is the only one prototyping tool that supports sketch instead of the wireframe. In the tools of prototype design, Balsamiq is really special. ![]()
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