UI/UX & its top-notch Prototyping tools
By: Priyanka Gehlot
Tags: Design, Prototyping, UX, UI, Tools

by PRIYANKA GEHLOT

In this digital era, there is a key element known as “Design”.

And whenever we have this word — Design floating in the mind, most probably we are thinking about UI and UX. (Do agree all the digital nomads)

Moreover, first I want to clarify that giant cited confusion between both the UI & UX.

UI (a.k.a User Interface) — the platform where an end user gets interacted with the product. Including looks, lines, curves, colors, content, creativity and design for an assortment of interactivity. In short, how the product is laying and responding there. UX (a.k.a User Experience) — the platform from where an end user gets accessibility, enhancing the interactions, visions, structures and experience. UX is a strategy behind the UI (design). This strategy consists of User need, Business value and Technical capability.

However, as much as I like to ease the search about top-notch UI/UX Prototyping tools and let you know about it.

There are a lot of prototyping tools for UI/UX design and we all digital nomads (okay, not all, but aspiring ones) are getting very confused that from where to get a reference and a kick start.

For digital enthusiastic designers:

Where to find a right platform for both UI & UX and their Prototype tools?

Not so CODED!!!!! but POTENTIAL UI/UX designs.

And these tools are less time consuming than taking a long sip of code (I have done a lot in PHP & .net & also got those 404).

TBH, you will find it more worth once you have gained an experience as a geek. But don’t fear out, here we have some cool and easy to use prototyping tools w/o the straggle (not struggle) of time in coding and to address all the aspects of good UI/UX designs.

Top-notch Prototyping tools -

Easy to use and frequent features to make transitions in design, navigation.

It is the easiest prototype tool to design a keen UI.

- It is able to sync with Google Drive or Dropbox.

- Easy to import designs from Sketch and Photoshop.

- Easily can comment on prototypes, to share projects and even easier to get recognized feedback at your designs.

Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphic platform.

-Commonly famous among all UI designers.

-Also know as a free-form design tool to create any shape, icons, logo and illustrations.

- Easy to add objects to photos with its easy-to-use design.

- If you are a beginner then going to start with this tool is a great decision. -Here you can easily create vector graphic art and learn many advanced features of Illustrator.

When it comes to creating a design on mobile, you should go with this tool of mobile app development in both Android and iPhone.

- For the mobile app, there’s a lot of design ideas for notifications, messaging, photos, comments etc.

- Ease of implementation of different designs by just clicking on a category.

It creates every design responsive, which means it will show the exact same design size across every platform — desktop, mobile, and tablet devices.

- It saves time to design separately for each one device type at a different time.

- Easy to use and all three device types or their screens responsiveness can tested at one place.

Some of the most common prototyping tools include:

Type Scale

UX Project Checklist

GoodUI

Mocksplus

UserTesting

As a UI/UX nomad only the inner voice you need to hear to achieve all the best possible results is —

“The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change -” ― Heraclitus

There is an important role of CHANGE in UI/UX designs. Because it’s trend is not a constant, its keep changing with every new requirement, every new business, every new client and with the time & technology.

Notably, a good UI design will change the people’s using habit of it.

Another key note to remember is — UI/UX Designs should be keen and attractive with bracing the value of the product in front of users.

So, GO!! Get your custom prototyping tool and make it happen :)