A Beginner’s Guide to Creating Fast Prototypes
By: Fozia Akter
Tags: UX Design, Prototyping, Beginners Guide, UX, Portfolio

A UX portfolio is the story of your journey. But words alone detailing your project work will not garner as much interest as visually compelling prototypes. As a UX writer and content strategist, I am usually evaluating design work without having to create design of my own. However, as someone looking to upgrade my portfolio with dynamic prototypes, I needed an easy-to-use design tool that won’t break the bank to revamp my app ideas below.

UI project app

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Creating beautiful, usable design as a beginner is more challenging when competing with professional designers with years of experience under their belt. UX tools have a career-saving impact on your life, and choosing the wrong one will cause both to suffer.

A cost analysis of the most popular prototyping tools on the market are:

InVision = $15 a month for three prototypes Figma = $15 a month or $144 annually Sketch = $99 for lifetime access

So, to narrow my choices for an ideal tool, I gave myself three simple benchmarkers. The design tool had to be:

fast easy free

Enter, Wondershare Mockitt. This incredible graphic design tool simplifies a complicated process that allows users to create prototypes, collaborate with team members, and browse a library of assets and templates.

Let’s dive into some of its exciting features.

Easy to create prototypes

Creating high-quality prototypes without having to write any code is always great news for beginner and professional designers. I got started by creating a new project after registering on Wondershare Mockitt. It was simple to browse the dashboard of UI assets to drag and drop what I needed. With these keyboard shortcuts, I rearranged the entire interface in 30 minutes. The vast and icon library made it easy to align UI elements under Material Design guidelines.

Collaboration saves you time

Beginners and experts can benefit from receiving feedback on their work from friends or colleagues. Wondershare Mockitt allows you to not just create interfaces and prototypes, but also makes it easy to check their reliability. Instead of hopping on the phone to explain my app idea, I left comments on the interface so that we could work on the same page, literally. You can also speed up the process of sharing or the handoff to developers by creating links. I shared my work with a designer friend who added comments by just double-clicking.

Free to try

In a time where almost everything is mobile-first, learning how to create an app can benefit you. Yet, the design tools are skewed in favor of people who can afford them. For people with little to no experience to experts, saving time and money can take the stress out of trying out another design tool. You don’t have to learn or hire graphic designers to do the job. Wondershare Mockitt has helped millions of users create, edit, and share their great app idea. And you can try it for free. The free plan allows you to create three projects with 20 screens for each. Don’t worry about inputting your credit card information and forgetting to cancel. You won’t have to.

My search for a great prototyping design tool is reminiscent of what users look for in their products. Simple, fast, and less expensive or free software or tools are hallmarks of great user experience. Whether people are upgrading their professional portfolios or breathing life into an app idea, finding an efficient tool with accessible pricing breaks barriers.

So, what is your next big app idea? Breathe life into your prototypes for free with Mockitt.