Archive for the ‘patterns’ Category

Axure wireframe callout widget library

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

I looked for it but couldn’t find it so I made it. Here’s an Axure library of callout widgets:

It’s not exactly rocket science but hopefully someone might find it useful. Callouts are probably an oddity in the Axure world, as Axure is more based on prototypes rather than wireframes. But at work we use Axure more for traditional wireframes than prototypes so need callouts for on-page documentation. In this environment Axure’s killer feature is it’s SVN based system for collaborating on a shared file. (Try getting three people to successfully update a 100+ page Visio document at the same time without errors…)

The make up of article pages

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

This image was created by colouring and then overlaying the content areas from article pages from the UK’s biggest news websites. (It’s quite tall, so please do scroll past it to where I’m actually saying something).

Key:

  • Grey = Global navigation/branding
  • Blue = Article content
  • Green = Links to related content
  • Turquoise = Share content functionality
  • Dark Green = Links to content
  • Red = Adverts
  • Orange = Internal Marketing/Links to advertorials

The sites I looked at are: