Best softwares for UX design and UI design! — Used by Professionals
A collection of Latest good and Best softwares for UX design and UI design that are widely used by Industry professionals for UI designing of mobile applications and website.
UI’s are getting simple and minimal day by day to make user experience fluent and tools for the UX design and UI design too. when I started back in 2016 we were using the different tools for wireframe, prototyping, logos, banner, image editing, website designing, and application designing. So here is the list of Best softwares for UX design and UI design.
This article is divided into two parts
- UI Designing Tools
- UX Designing Tools
But now in 2019–2020. The tools for UI and UX designing are Extracted from the main software that was the jack of all trades back in time.
New tools Drastically changed the workflow and speed of achieving the end results. The ability to work quickly on different versions of your ideas and share them with your client or your team in real time.
I myself experienced the changes in tools. back then the tools were heavy to install. Comes in a Bundle of packaged software with other unnecessary tools and function that are never used by anyone in any case of while designing UX and UI for Mobile app or web design.
Developers take the best of all worlds(Softwares) and combined them with one tool with new features and Some tools are got simplified.
In this article, I’ll introduce you the Great UI designing and UX designing tools which will help you design & iterate faster.
All the tools that I am mentioned are tried and tested by myself.
Choose which one works best for you according to your need. I mentioned both paid and free softwares.
UI DESIGNING
Figma
Software type : Free
Figma is a free design tool and best in my opinion. is has almost all the features of the sketch and features are increasing days by day.
The real-time feature is best in Figma. it is actually a real-time app.
I used this with my design team on real projects and its actually a gold.
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the logos are enough to tell the story of the software growth in the industry.
Support Platform: Windows, Mac OS
Website: https://www.figma.com/
Sketch
Software type : Paid
The Sketch is vector-based design software which helps designing interfaces quickly and effectively.
It’s like a combination of Photoshop with Illustrator, but a lightweight software with sometimes 100+ or unlimited artboards.
Industry standard and used by the experts. Internet is filled with the community, freebies, and tutorials on sketch app.
Make the symbols of predesigned element and use it whenever needed.
The sketch is the software that is designed to save designers from the hustle of switching between softwares.
Support Platform: Mac OS
Website: https://www.sketch.com/
Adobe Illustrator
Software type : Paid
If you are related to designing in any way then Illustrator is not a new name for you it’s the best tool out there to make logos, sketches, typography, icons, mobile applications, website or even complex illustrations backed by Adobe.
Illustrator is the industry standard from the past many years. A tool that helps designers makes pixel-perfect art.
Create, scale, zoom, align with pixel-perfect shapes. Fastest design tool in the market. Explore plugins for a quicker experience.
Support Platform: Windows, Mac OS
Website: https://www.adobe.com/in/products/illustrator.html
Adobe XD
Software type : Free
A tool that is made for Wireframe, design, prototype, present, and shares amazing experiences for web, mobile, voice, and more — all in one app.
Adobe XD is made for designers, creative teams, and organizations that need to design at scale. It’s everything you need to work more efficiently, collaborate effortlessly, and create and manage your design system.
Support Platform: Windows, Mac OS
Website: https://www.adobe.com/products/xd.html
UX DESIGNING
Balsamiq
Software type : Paid
Life’s too short for bad software!
Balsamiq is a graphical tool. That helps to create Wireframes, user interfaces, mobile apps, desktop software and more.
Using Balsamiq is like using a whiteboard but as software.
Every successful design starts with pen and paper, and Balsamiq can change exactly that.
Stop sketching with paper, pencil. Use Balsamiq to make your life easy.
UX Professionals use Balsamiq Wireframes because it’s the fastest, most focused low-fidelity wireframing tool in the industry.
Website: https://balsamiq.com/
Mockflow
Software type : Free for 1 User
The quickest way to brainstorm user interface ideas
MockFlow is the solution for planning UI/UX. Use MockFlow to visualize user interfaces, create user flows, document styles and approve designs.
MockFlow is an online UX suite for creative UI designers, UX and usability engineers. A tool creates wireframes and paper prototyping with ease.
Website: https://mockflow.com/
This is not the end as soon as I find any New Software trending and I will update this article ASAP.
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