When working on relatively simple sites, there's a lot you can do directly in Drupal to show clients how content and functionality will work together. But as functionality gets more complex and more stakeholders get involved in decisions about how the site will work, it's easy to lose development hours on code that will end up thrown out as the stakeholders rip apart your ideas.

Wireframes only tell part of the story. To really get buy-in from stakeholders, you need to show them more than what's on a page—you need to show them how something will WORK.

Enter Axure RP. A common tool used by UX practitioners, it allows you to create site maps, user flows and wireframes quickly, within a single application—and makes it easy to add interactive elements, annotate your work, and export working HTML prototypes with the click of a button. In this session, UX Designer and Drupal for Designers author Dani Nordin will share how she uses Axure to prototype complex functionality and get stakeholder buy-in on projects while saving her team development time.

What question(s) does this session answer?

• How do I ensure my project is going in the right direction before spending time on development?
• How do I manage projects with many stakeholders without losing my mind?
• How can I turn my team's ideas into something we can test quickly?

About the Presenter

Dani Nordin is a UX Designer and Strategist and the author of O'Reilly's Drupal for Designers. She works with organizations around the country to understand their users, prototype functionality, and solve sticky information architecture issues for large-scale Drupal implementations. She lives in Watertown, Massachusetts with her husband Nick, daughter Charlotte (aka "Bump"), and Persephone, a 14-pound black fuzzball cat. All are infinite sources of comedic gold.