Whether you are newbie or professional web designer/developer, you always start from creating wireframes in the beginning of any web project rather than directly starting to work on the real output.
This not only helps understanding that you are on the right track with the customer but also usually pops out new questions regarding functionality which would normally be a problem if such questions had appeared after the project was built.
For doing this there are myriad of tools and resources are available in the market which make your work easier and give more professional looking results.
For this roundup we have compiled a list of 15 Best UX and UI Tools and Resources, most of these tools come with number of features and prototyping capabilities and also let you collaborate with other team member and share information amongst them. So let’s browse the list.
1. Axure RP
Axure RP gives you the wireframing, prototyping and documentation tools needed to make informed design choices, persuade any skeptics, and document your design and maybe win a few fans along the way. Choose the Standard edition for prototyping or go Pro to add documentation and collaboration features.
2. Notism
Notism is a useful collaboration and prototyping tool that allows you to share designs with others easily, and in real time. Because it gives one the ability to share notes, sketch directly on the work, and collaborate through the use of video, Notism users are able to iterate designs faster. Furthermore, you can sign off design layouts and test the product for usability during each step of the design process.
3. UX Check
UX Check is a Chrome Extension that makes it easier to identify usability problems using heuristic evaluation. It uses Nielsen’s 10 heuristics, along with tools for identifying, annotating, and exporting issues.
4. PowerMockup
PowerMockup’s Stencil Library provides a wide range of templates for all the typical elements of a website or application: buttons, text boxes, menus, tabs, tables, etc. Using the Stencil Library is as easy as selecting an item and dragging it onto a PowerPoint slide. All stencils are based on regular PowerPoint shapes and fully editable. PowerMockup is compatible with PowerPoint versions 2007 through 2013 (both 32 and 64-bit). All of this in a single installation package.
5. Flux
Flux, from Facebook, is an application architecture for building user interfaces, and more pattern than formal framework. It complements React’s composable view components via a unidirectional data flow.
6. Photoshare
ProtoShare is an easy-to-use, collaborative prototyping tool that helps teams visualize requirements with website wireframes and interactive prototypes while working together in real-time. You can also create a library of reusable Templates, Masters, and Assets for increased productivity and consistency across teams and projects.
7. Proto.io
Proto.io allows you to show your audience prototypes that have the look and feel of the real app. The latest version is packed with a number of new or improved features. There are for example, 49 new fully-interactive UI elements that support ripple effects, drop shadows, an upgraded color picker, and a selection of animated morphing features that allow even greater creativity.
8. Pidoco
Pidoco is powerful prototyping software for rapidly creating clickable wireframes, mockups and interactive UX prototypes for web, mobile and enterprise applications. It’s easy to use with smart sharing and collaboration features, rich interactions, a smart template system, convenient specification generator, exports and much more. This powerful prototyping tool with its commenting, versioning, and issue tracking capabilities, enables you to easily collaborate with others and share real-time information in the process.
9. UsabilityHub
UsabilityHub is an online test application which helps you to answer questions you may have about your app design, and it offers an analysis as to what people’s first impressions of your design might be, and helps you understand the reasoning behind these impressions.
10. DalekJS
DalekJS will launch and automate your browser, fill and submit forms, click and follow links, and more. It works on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
11. Justinmind
Justinmind Prototyper provides you with the best design solution to prototype feature-rich mobile apps, websites, web products and/or enterprise applications, and more. Justinmind Prototyper allows you to share and test designs that run on real devices, and make your wireframe look and feel like the finished application to get a complete sense of your experience.
12. Invision
This tool is being used by more than 80,000 users, this tool can be used for the initial design concept until product testing has been completed and the product is deemed ready to be introduced into the marketplace. InVision is much more than a prototyping tool. Its information sharing features allow it to serve as a project management tool as well, giving you prototyping, task management and version control capabilities in a single package.
13. Firefly
This tool allows you to upload website mockups, upload app designs during various stages of the design process, incorporate photos, UI ideas, and you can even capture an entire webpage. Firefly is an effective tool for a scattered team as it enables information to be accessed through a browser anywhere in the world.
14. Patternry
Patternry is a tool for building living UI pattern libraries. It helps designers and developers work faster and smarter together. Patternry is the best way to store your design & code assets. Design patterns contain guidelines, screenshots, living code examples, discussion – arranging them into logical pieces of the UI (Overlay, Data Table etc.). It makes easy to find what you need and gives everyone a complete picture of the project deliverables.
15. AppCooker
AppCooker streamlines App creation workflow to get ready for production in no time. It’s an advanced mockup & prototyping tool on iPad. Create, play and share high fidelity mockups using native iOS widgets: it’s the ultimate toolbox for anyone who wants to start creating “an App for that”. From idea to mockup and beyond, it’s easy for anyone to achieve professional results.
