As a new designer when you decide to work on the UX it was the decision when you take steps to the world of technology which offer you immense opportunity. User experience (UX) design has become a massive part of working in the design sector. UX designers are all about providing the imagination on the screen. UX design is displayed with the information they’re looking for in the easiest, cleanest, and most intuitive way possible – whether that be a website or mobile app.
In this Article, we provide you with a list of the main UX design tools available at the moment to help get you started – and for some, we’ve created a list of helpful classes, so you can get learning straight away.
1. InVision:
This allow you to quick easy and creative way to create mock up that gives you real-time web experience. You can actually launch the testing platform from an iPhone, including screen recordings, videos and audio of users testing your prototypes.
Create your own free account as a designer it also allows you to collaborate while completing the project. There are some more interesting features you can avail like:
• Interactive prototypes
• Communicate while working on the project
• Develop the digital board for your company
• Collect the ideas from the websites
At the end the InVision design studio is the best to work with. Working on Websites like this will give you opportunity to learn new skills as well as you can work on live projects for your practice on InVision.
2. Adobe XD
Adobe is not only UX platform it is for both UX/UI. You have heard the name of this toll or chances are there you have used this. This platform is very popular among users because it offers to UI and UX designers on the same platform and, you can design websites and mobile apps, prototype and see your finished product in preview in XD.
Moreover, Adobe XD is part of creative cloud, which includes Photoshop, Illustrator, and all our other amazing creative desktop apps.
The first Adobe Experience was designed for macOS, then A beta of Adobe XD was released for Windows 10 on December 13, 2016. On October 18, 2017, Adobe announced that Adobe XD was out of beta.
3. Gliffy
Gliffy is the best for Diagram solutions. You can create flowcharts, wireframes, UML diagrams, sitemaps and more – and at a low cost, with no download necessary.
Gliffy is providing solutions to 3 major areas:
• Designs
• Business
• Software Engineering
San Francisco Company was started back in 2005 by the duo. Currently it helps the thousands of designers to learn and create the best designs for their projects.
4. Adobe Photoshop
You know this right! I know you have used this. Adobe Photoshop is very popular software among web designers and image editors. It is a user friendly software and offers lots of unique tools that help you unleash your creativity. Despite being paid software, Adobe Photoshop is used by thousands of budding and professional web designers all over the world.
You can do a lot with the Photoshop like print ads, designing annual reports, laying out magazines and newspapers, and creating captivating billboards. If you don’t already know what a smart object is, you need to get acquainted fast as that is one of the keys of efficient design practices in Photoshop. All of these things are learned only as you work within the program and delve into real world projects.
5. Marvel
Here let me clear I am not talking about the Marvel studios. This Marvel is the design platform for digital products. With marvel you can create wireless, mockup, website or app phototype for any device right from your browser. The best part is Marvel is web-based app you don’t need to download it into your pc.
Marvel can be the best tool for the designing and cross company collaboration. So, if you are working as free lancer this give you the advantages to share the live project details for your and it will power up your work flow.
A web-based program that I use with basic design, wireframes, UML, UI, flowcharting, and all types of collaborative design projects is LucidChart (http://www.lucidchart.com). The free version is limited to only 3 saved projects, but students can acquire a free full version by authenticating with their academic institution’s email address.
Always eager to see ideas by other users, thanks for that.
It looks bit of a strange mix to me, not sure also why this is meant for ‘newbie’ designers. Mastering an application like PS, just for UX design seems strange, while XD is indeed meant for such a goal. I know PS now has artboards which makes it bit more suitable. Why PS and not Illustrator? I never used Gliffy, but there are a lot more similar applications around for wireframing, flowcharts etc.. have used several.
Just out of curiosity: which one do you use? Which one is the most appropriate for real newbie designers? Is the order (1-5) meaningful?
Hey Lieve,
I really liked your curiosity to know about which one tool I am using?
First of all, I would like to say that I didn’t assign any order here. I just take a tool which is most useful & easy to learn for Newbie Designers. The tool which mentioned above, all has its extra features I mean one tool offer limited features to learn and another offer unlimited features to learn. So now it’s depend on you to select which one tool is very useful and beneficial for you.
If you know about my point of view regarding this then I’ll go PS & Adobe XD but that does not mean I won’t check other tools. Personally, I’ll check all these tools and select any one tool which give me all features to learn.
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