10 Tools UX Designers Will Love
Chad Faith
Director of Content
Today, a constant stream of websites and apps are released on the online marketplace almost on a daily basis. If you want your product to stand out from the rest, it is pertinent that you create high quality and user-friendly products. Tackling this user experience niche can be pretty challenging and time-consuming. However, you can make the process easier and faster by using the correct web design and development tools and apps suited for UX designers. Here’s a list of tools that you can consider:
MouseStats
If you are wondering what MouseStats is, you can think of it as a guide that you can use to create products for the online world efficiently. You can take advantage of the app’s stellar features such as Visitor Playback, Heatmaps, Micro Surveys, and Form Analytics.
Appsee
Appsee is a pretty neat app that provides a detailed report on the behavior of your users, when they are browsing your site or the web in general. If you want to understand users’ actions or optimize your product to increase in-app monetization, conversions, and engagement, Appsee has got you covered. What’s more, you can integrate this app’s wonderful SDK into your Android or iOS app in less than one minute!
Ethnio
With all-star set of features for research, including customer panels, remote UX testing, surveys, online research, and in-person interviews, Ethnio is a stellar UX research management tool that comes in handy when you want to intercept real people for user research.
POP
POP is a simple, intuitive, and powerful tool that helps UX designers mold their sketched ideas for an app into a prototype. Its interface is so intuitive that it makes it feel as though you’ve been using the app for ages. If you are thinking of creating a new app, consider using POP to plan your design flow and perform quick user test on app prototypes.
Gliffy
If you need to create UMLs, org charts, flowcharts, diagrams, and more, Gliffy is apt for the job. What’s more, Gliffy enables you to work with anyone anywhere without facing browser and software incompatibility issues.
Power Mockup
Power Mockup offers a generous selection of UI items that can be integrated into your PowerPoint window. In addition, it gives you easy access to lots of wireframe and mockup shapes. What’s more, the tool offers drag and drop features. Once you’ve decided which shape you want to include in your mockup, you just need to drag that item from the library pane and drop it on your PowerPoint slide. Easy, isn’t it?
UXPin
UXPin is the perfect tool for rapid prototyping and wireframing for UX designers. It allows you to easily work together with your colleagues via the Internet. You will be able to receive feedback for your work and co-design – all in real time!
Solidify
Solidify is the tool you can count on designing high-fidelity prototypes from your visual mockups, wireframes, or sketches. The app works amazingly fast in gathering feedback from your team members. You will be able to update your project on time and meet deadlines!
Silverback
Silverback is an app that you definitely want as it allows you to utilize your iPhone to record without any interruptions. Since it is created on OSX, you can be sure that it’s optimized for Yosemite too. What’s more, Silverback has the latest exporting feature.
Attensee
If you want to gauge how efficient your design actually is; see what doesn’t work; or what should be modified or replaced, we got the tool for you. Try Attensee. You will be able to find out if users actually notice the features you envisioned getting the most attention.