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Discussion, Takeaways and Next Steps Of course, the time saving and error prevention benefits of this architecture increase along with the number of times that similar cases would otherwise need to be replicated across the prototype, but the architecture has another, less obvious, but key advantage. Keeping track of what interactions each widget/event is performing in a prototype can ultimately become the limiting factor in how complex an Axure prototype an individual can produce. This architecture, whereby we keep more complex cases in one place, or put another way, modularize the interactive aspects of the prototype, makes the process of managing complex interactivity easier and more scalable. Therefore, this increases the potential complexity of the prototype. The ultimate progression of this architecture is to set global variables prior to triggering a dynamic panel’s?OnMove?event, such that the panel then uses the value in the variables to determine (through the use of conditions) which case(s) to execute, and how this execution should be performed, in particular contexts. Indeed, some Axure experts, including myself, have pushed this architecture to the point whereby, for very complex prototyping, we manage most, or even all, of the interactivity using a single control panel and a suitable set of variables for managing the behaviour of this panel. In my experience, this makes it easier to keep the ‘interaction model’ in mind and identify/correct any bugs. Indeed, an example of this can be found in the widget called?menuPanDragSwipeRepeaterItems (H)?in? Ax-Stream’s Drag, Swipes and Spins widget library?(which is a free download), and Figure 11 contains a snap shot of this that demonstrates the basic concept. Figure 11. The use of such architectures can be extended in Axure prototyping whereby we set up a bunch of such ‘control’ dynamic panels on a page that act like a subroutine library that we can simply call upon from any widget or event to execute the cases