Axure RP 7.0 is around the corner, but…
Axure RP 7.0 has been in beta for a while now.
I remember following the 6.0 beta very closely, as for me, the features were a huge jump in how I prototyped. I was running the beta exclusively from the day it became available. I haven’t followed the 7.0 beta as closely though.
Not because the feature listing isn’t impressive. I’d love to be using it. There’s just one huge problem in my opinion that’s stopping me diving in.
The new Widget Manager
What have they done?! They’ve tried to be like Photoshop and have every widget in what used to be called the Dynamic Panel Manager. EVERY widget. Not just panels and masters. EVERY widget. Coupled with this, is seemingly no way to manage these now hundreds of items… Photoshop has folders. My complex pages that had 30 dynamic panels in them now have a thousand items. It’s just not usable.
Axure 7.0 has a big feature coming, Adaptive Views. This is big for a drawing tool. My last hope is that Axure are funnelling all their time into perfecting adaptive views and the Widget Manager will be fixed before the first stable release.
In closing...
Oh, and one last point: here's a look at Axure's new logo, launched with Version 7!
An interesting direction... I know people are going simple these days, but this is maybe too simple... It looks like an Axure file, not the software itself.
