Superpowers for your UX workflow
By: Raffaele Vitale
Tags: Innovation, Design, Tool, UX, Technology

Let’s start from UXToolset. I’m so excited! Could you tell me a bit more about the product itself as I didn’t know anything about it?

UXToolset is a product where you can Improve your daily UX workflow and create wireframes, flowcharts, user flows, diagrams, prototypes, and handoff documentation with drag & drop fully scalable components for Sketch / Figma.

UXToolset is a group of three products:

Flow Kit

It’s a remastered version of UX Flow which was created by Greg in 2015. UX Flow product has been downloaded over 1 million times. Today many people, companies, and organizations use it to help them in their UX, research, plan, or management work.

Flow Kit contains hundreds of vector flowchart cards, diagram elements, scalable arrows and other components for creating quick sitemaps.

Wireframe Kit

Tool for creating wireframes and prototypes faster with 1500+ fully customizable components and ready-to-use layouts. The strongest feature of this product is that components are the core.

There are many similar products on the market but they give only ready-to-use layouts, without any scalability.

Our kit gives you the ability (thanks to hundreds of components) to create your own complex wireframes without any limits. Of course, we have predefined layouts too but they are just an additional feature of our product.

Handoff Kit

Measure. Note. Comment. Create documentation for the collaborators (i.e. designers or developers) directly inside your design file. How to use it? It’s easy! Just drag & drop components, scale or rotate it and get a professional UX/UI specification directly in your design files.

What problems does UXToolset solve?

Speed up the wire-framing and diagram creating process

Ensure the visual consistency of wireframes and diagrams

All changes are global, you don’t have to change all elements locally over and over again.

Collaborate with other UX designers on library development and expansion.

Reduce the entry threshold for new designers into the project.

Minimize the number of misunderstandings, mistakes, and time-wasting thanks to components for the handoff process

How did you all get inspired to start this?

The UI/UX process is quite common — we plan, we do research, we create low-fidelity mockups, then we create more detailed designs, we iterate, we create a product and as a final step we hand off the results to our beloved developers. Nonetheless, the problem is that we use plenty of different kits and tools to accomplish our ideas and projects.

They have different look & feel, methodology, naming convention, aesthetic, components, and more.

Along with my friends Greg Dlubacz and Patryk Ilnicki we have created a product we are really proud of, where we have combined our 30 (in total) years of experience, and where we can speed up the design process using a bespoke solution which helps us with creating beautiful and meaningful products for our own clients.

All these tools help us significantly in our own design process, so one day we have decided to polish them and prepare something that other people may benefit from as well.

What are the risks that you are taking in this sector?

The main risk is that there are many similar products (but not that complex) on the market. Nowadays everybody makes kits, better or worse but they catch our potential clients.

We have to be the best and do good products if we would like to be on the top of the heap in this sector. I can say that the solutions that we provide to our customers are top-notch in every detail and it’s our strong side.

I know that it’s strange to say for an early-stage product, but what is the future of UXToolset?

We plan to be adding more assets in the future, more examples, and layouts. We are also working on a mobile version of Flow Kit including dozens of new cards, and many more.

We are working on new products that will be part of our toolset and would be helpful for UX designers to focus all their needs in one product.

If you had to share one suggestion to someone that wants to start his/her own project, what would it be?

Building your own product is not easy, you have to be patient.

You have to remember that a finished product is one thing, but all other activities you have to do is the second part of this work.

A finished product is just halfway to success, you have to do marketing, build your audience on social media, and collect emails from your potential customers.

8. Where can our readers connect with you online?

Through UXToolset!