15 Essential UX and UI Tools and Resources Which Designers can’t afford to miss

Posted by on Jun 5, 2015 in Useful Resources | 0 comments

UX and UI tools are great help for designers to speed up their work with easier designing solutions. The competition and high demand of innovative designing has made these tools essential which also has become the reason of the huge list of tools available in the domain.

Finding UI and UX tools that fulfill all the requirements of the designers and come in their budget can be a difficult job. To reduce the hassles we have made a list of the tools that every designer would love to work with.

1. Proto.io


Proti.io is one of the most popular and widely used UX and UI tools with prototyping and collaborative features. The tool provides all the basic features that any UX and UX tool should have, however, the thing brought it in the list is that it offers a much faster and easier prototyping with a great collaboration feature.

Feature check list

Prototypes and collaborating websites
Testing tools
Websites offering free templates
Design blogs websites

2. Pidoco


Pidoco is also one of the most popular UX and UI tools that offers all the essential feature a designer might seek, for example, prototyping, collaboration, wireframes, templates and testing etc.

The highly attractive feature of this tool is its prototyping and its ability to simulate the look. And, in case you lose control of your position in the middle of the design approach, the tool offers a solution by positioning a design templates on global layers.

Feature check list:

Prototypes and collaborating websites
Testing tools
Websites offering free templates
Design blogs websites

3. InVision


InVision has all the core and essential features of a UI and UX tool and what makes it stand out of the list is the ease of use. The tool provides real time collaboration and a powerful prototyping. The tool has great collaboration feature as well as the task management, both features can be the USP of InVision.

Feature check list:

Prototypes and collaborating websites
Testing tools
Websites offering free templates
Design blogs websites

4. Firefly


Upload your design with any number of updates and the tool will track and store all the versions, or collaborate with your team in real time or keep the control of the configuration while working with the rapid prototyping, Firefly is a tool that fit in the expectation criteria of any designer.

Feature check list:

Prototypes and collaborating websites
Testing tools   N/A
Websites offering free templates
Design blogs websites

5. UserTesting


User testing is a UI and UX testing tool that brings a whole new advanced testing method for your projects, either the website design or mobile apps. The tool also provides the videos and metrics to get the insights of the users using the products you have created and let you share the results within your team.

Feature check list:

Prototypes and collaborating websites
Testing tools
Online courses websites
Design blogs websites

6. Notism


Notism offers prototyping as well as the collaborative features. The UI and UX tool is more popular for its collaborative capability than any other features, however the feature that put it in the lime light is the real time video collaboration feature, to communicate your ideas and information to your team. It provides the ability to create interactive prototypes and share them with your team along with the notes or any information or sketches etc.

Feature check list:

Prototypes and collaborating websites
Testing tools
Websites offering templates
Design blogs websites

7. Prott


The tool provides a rapid prototyping feature for instantly shaping and sharing your ideas. Prott is mainly a rapid prototyping and collaborative tool that is best suited for designing mobile applications. The tool supports both, the iOS and android, platforms.

Feature check list:

Prototypes and collaborating websites
Testing tools      N/A
Websites offering free templates
Design blogs websites

8. PowerMockup


The UI and UX tool works like the PowerPoint and creating a prototype in this tool is as simple as creating the presentation on PowerPoint. It is an easy to understand tool and if you are a complete non-technical person you might be going to love working on it. The tool offers prototyping and collaborating features along with office integration.

Feature check list:

Prototypes and collaborating websites
Testing tools      N/A
Websites offering free templates
Design blogs websites

9. PickFu


PickFu is not a designing tool but a poll service that helps you find the best suitable design relevant to your work. For example, if you are about to publish a book and juggling with the number of designs for the cover page, the tool provides you a polling solution where you can upload the designs online and find the most preferred one on the basis of polls. You can ask questions to selected responders and get answers, feedbacks or comments.

Feature check list:

Prototypes and collaborating websites
Testing tools
Websites offering free templates
Design blogs websites

10. Vonn Mobile Material Design UI Kit


The Vonn mobile design UI kit by Visual hierarchy is a UI and UX designing tool for mobile apps. The kit has changed the typical slow, painstaking process of app creation into a fast and easy one with its compatibility with Google’s Material design guidelines. The tools offers 100 kinds of beautiful templates in 9 categories and provides you the ability to create spectacular and fresh looking apps with bold colors and great animations.

Feature check list:

Prototypes websites
Testing tools
Websites offering free templates
Design blogs websites

11. AppCooker


AppCooker works for Apple iPhones, iPads and iWatches and makes the app creation much easier and less time consuming in terms of programming. The tool provides an impressive realistic look for the prototypes and also, saves the time and money. Working with Appcooker gives the feeling of carving your own master piece by its great prototyping and testing feature with sharing option and the support for cloud services.

Feature check list:

Prototypes and collaborating websites
Testing tools
Online tutorial
Websites offering free templates
Design blogs websites

12. Marvel


The Marvel’s UI and UX tool is a fast, easy and attractive solution for interactive prototyping. The tool with its basic features is free for unlimited projects, all you need to have a Dropbox account to connect with and share your designs. It is a simple platform where any one, from designers, entrepreneurs, startups, agencies to the students can work on.

Feature check list:

Prototypes and collaborating websites
Testing tools
Websites offering free templates
Design blogs websites

13. Myna


Myna’s most attractive and useful feature is the A/B testing which grasps everything in real time as you move forward. It is a great tool that makes sure that your best design should be seen by more of your clients or potential clients by optimizing the tests on fly. Rather focusing on the page views the tool focuses on individual visitor and conducts the test on the basis of that.

With Myna you get instant results of the tests, even, you can make the changes while the test is in progress.

Feature check list:

Prototypes and collaborating websites
Testing tools
Websites offering free templates
Design blogs websites

 

14. Antetype


Antetype is the UI and UX tool any designer would want to work with. The tool has every feature that a designer can need while making a rich, hi-fidelity prototype. Plus, it offers 400 widgets for all major platforms with option to add more.

Feature check list:

Prototypes websites
Testing tools
Websites offering free templates
Design blogs websites

15. Ace Module UI Kit


The Ace module UI kit is the UI tool for iOS 8 mobile apps. The kit includes 75 PSD templates, more than 100 icons and screens that allow almost 1000 different apps to be created. It is an easy yet power tool completely dedicated to the high quality mobile app development.

Feature check list:

Prototypes websites
Testing tools
Websites offering free templates
Design blogs websites

All the tools we put in the list here are quiet versatile and can be the best choice for the designers to get a help in their work. If you have any more suggestion that could go in the list, please feel free to comment below or leave your feedbacks if the information was useful for you.

 

About the Author 
Author is a content developer and writer at Codecondo. He loves writing and sharing topics on web development, designing, web programming and latest trends going around in web world.

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