Design your way

Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Growing demand for UI/UX designers has resulted in higher salaries. Demand for those who claim UX design skills and experience is especially pronounced.

You’ll find that getting on board is much easier when you have the right tools and know how to use them. The right tools cover wire-framing, prototyping, user testing, interactive design, and team collaboration.

Finding the best UI/UX tools to suit your needs can be a mind-boggling experience. This is because of the sheer number of them out there. The good news is that in this post, we have done the heavy lifting for you. We researched and listed the most amazing UI, UX, and prototyping tools on the market in 2018.

Any tool on this list can help create apps and websites that are more user-friendly. This makes your workflow productive than ever.

Happy Hunting!

Mason

Handing off a mockup or prototype to work toward a final design is one approach, and a common one at that, but the creators of Mason had a better idea. With Mason, you use a simple visual interface to do your software and digital features designs in real time.

When it’s time to hand your design off for feedback or approval, Mason deploys the actual design screen you see in the builder; and it can deploy your pixel-perfect design directly into production.

Mason enables you to build apps faster, avoid overhead, and reduce the need for QA inspections and testing to a minimum or eliminate it completely. Mason is built around best practice design solutions created by designers with clients such as Google, NFL.com, InVision, and others.

You are not constrained to a specific development or hosting platform either. You work when and where you want to with whatever tech stack makes the most sense. This is one UI/UX tool you don’t want to let slip by without taking a closer look.

Overflow

The best designs are often those that tell a story and that is exactly what Overflow does. Overflow is the world’s first user flow diagramming tool tailored for designers. Reinventing how user flow diagramming should be done, it empowers designers to communicate their designs in a new, impactful way.

As a powerful cross-platform tool that integrates seamlessly with the most popular design tools, Overflow helps designers quickly turn their designs into playable user flow diagrams. This way, designers can effectively communicate their work, while fully engaging their audience with an interactive user flow presentation. With Overflow, designers can design, present, share & print their user flows to get valuable feedback, all in one place.

Overflow is currently available as an early private beta, and will be available to the public soon. Request early access.

UXPin

UXPin enables development-ready design. This design systems pioneer gives you the editing power you need to create and prepare UI elements and components and puts the necessary controls in place to ensure UX consistency throughout your digital component, app, or website.

UXPin allows you and your team to create better designs faster. You can build prototypes to any fidelity level you require, complete with built-in interactions, animations, and design libraries. This design systems platform fully enables real-time team collaboration as well.

Additionally, with UXPin, there is no need for manual documentation. Data and specs that developers are typically tasked with are automatically generated for each design element created within UXPin. There is even an inspect tool to ensure developers have adhered to your exact design specifications.

Creately

Creately consists of a wide set of tools to help UX teams and designers work more effectively across the entire design cycle. They range from flowcharting and mind-mapping tools to diagrams for information architecture design and unified modeling language tools.

Creately comes with real-time collaboration to help share and work on diagrams across locations and time zones. You can easily get started with their 1000s of well-designed templates.

PowerMockup

It takes but a trial run for PowerPoint users to fall in love with PowerMockup. This remarkable tool enables you to create interactive website and app mockups and wireframes using shapes and icons from PowerMockup’s library.

Simply select the shapes and icons you need and drag them onto a Power Point slide. You can even add your own shapes to build a custom library.

Download a trial version from the above PowerMockup link.

Fluid UI

Fluid UI is a feature-rich collaborative design, prototyping, wireframing, and mockup tool. The package includes built-in component libraries for all your web uses including those for desktop, Android and iOS. With Fluid UI, you can build interactive prototypes complete with animations.

This is an excellent tool for designers, teams, entrepreneurs, and product and project managers.

Visual Inspector

This useful UI tool provides you with the visual capability to inspect and fix UI issues on live websites. It works on HTML, WordPress, and any other website type. You can annotate changes on top of the web page to share with others, discuss your changes in real time, and much more.

Lifetime access to this exceptionally useful tool is currently available for $49.

Conclusion

The following web and app design approaches feature the very best in UI and UX design practices. You should have no trouble choosing one that best suits your design approach.

You’ll find a top-quality tool here to do anything you please. Prototyping, designing product design elements or handing over a design to a developer. This tool covers it all.

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