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Axure Essentials

A set of responsive widget libraries to bootstrap your next project.

Axure version

7+

Number of widgets

259

Package version

1.7

Updated

Apr 2, 2015

Table of contents

Core Library

This library should be used most of the time. Its goal is to replace the default widget library provided by Axure. It contains a set of great and better defaults: better forms, better typography, better buttons.

Widgets that do not need explanation

• Text
• Checkbox
• Radio Button
• Rectangle
• Placeholder
• Dynamic Panel
• Hot Spot
• Header 1
• Header 2
• Header 3
• Paragraph
• Hyperlink
• Horizontal line
• Vertical line
• Dropdown

Placeholder (image and video)

I think it's important to make the distinction between an image and a video's placeholder. The styles of those two widgets is clean and gray - it should also look great when printed.

Forms

All you need to build forms quickly. Most fields have default placeholders that will be removed when you click on the field.

• Input field
• Search field
• Textarea
• Prepended text
• Prepended checkbox
• List of checkboxes
• List of radio buttons
• Country dropdown

Other form elements

This section contains form items that use a lot of dynamic panels: 4 password strength indicators and one help bubble.

Dropdowns

The default dropdown widget Axure offers is browser/OS native. While it's great for some cases, I think it's better to sometimes have good looking, rich dropdown menus.

Buttons

There are a lot of buttons that enhances the default Axure experience. Here is a list of those buttons.

Alerts

Avatars - Labels - Ribbons

Calendars

A set of great calendars, some animated, some not.

Video and audio players

We provide a set of 5 video players (that mock Youtube players) corresponding to 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 columns, as well as 3 different kind of audio players.

Progress bars and Thumbnails

There are several layouts for progress bars, as well 4 different types of thumbnails. All of them are responsive of course.

Toggles

A set of animated toggles.

Tags

A set of tags, including one animated on mouse over.

iAB

This part contains 10 of the most popular iAB formats for banners and online ads. iAB stands for International Advertising Bureau and is responsible for standardizing advertising on Internet.

• 970x250 - Billboard
• 300x600 - Filmstrip
• 300x1050 - Portrait
• 970x90 - Pushdown
• 300x250 - Medium
• 180x150 - Rectangle
• 160x600 - Wide
• 790x90 - Leaderboard
• Carbon Ads
• The Deck

Blog Library

Articles

This widget is a long blog post, divided into categories, along with a quote and some titles.

Articles - excerpt

This widget is basically a shorter version of the widget above. Think of it as an exceprt.

Articles - Base content with images

Sometimes, you also need to add images next to the words. This is why we've created a default blog post that would contain images.

Articles - Titles

A series of titles for blogs.

Sidebar content

We provide several sidebar widgets, that fit into a 4 columns layout. These are:

• Search box
• Most read articles
• Related articles
• Subscribe via email
• Related videos

About the author and Comments

We provide two different "About the authors" section as well as a complete Comments thread, based on Disqus.

Breadcrumbs Library

Animated Images library

To make those effects, we use dynamic panels and hot spots.

Images v1

Images v2

Gallery v1

Gallery v2

Search Results Library

Principles

This library is all about displaying lists and search results. You can use it for galleries, for portfolios, for ecommerce websites.

We provide several categories of widgets in this library.

• Text-based listings
• House listings
• Image listings
• Profile listings. Basically a list of people or users in an application.
• Product listings, mostly for ecommerce websites.

This library relies on a lot on repeaters. This allows you to configure the listings the way you want. Just add or remove rows inside the repeaters, and your listing takes the size you want. Take a look at this animation below to understand how it works.

Every single widget of this library has been created to match the 5 adaptive views we support.

Text-based lists

Text-based lists - V1

Text-based lists - V2

House listings

House listings - V1

House listings - V2

House listings - V3

House listings - V4

Image listings

Image listings - V1

Image listings - V2

Image listings - V3

Image listings - V4

Profile listings

Profile listings - V1

Profile listings - V2

Profile listings - V3

Profile listings - V4

Profile listings - V5

Products listings - V1

Products listings - V2

Products listings - V3

Products listings - V4

Products listings - V5

Listings Library

The Listings Library contains a set of useful filters (the things that let you sort a list of elements - like Most recent, for instance) and sidebar widgets. To make it perfectly clear what those two concepts are, please take a look at the image below.

The filters come in two sizes: 8 columns and 9 columns, to fit most layouts.

Sidebars come in two sizes as well: 3 and 4 columns.

Sidebar widgets