Top 3 Designing Tools That Will Help You Work Smarter in 2021

Top 3 Designing Tools


Every company in Software technology knows about user experience design and User interface design. Every single product, wherever it is used, is designed with only one objective and User Experience. However, to achieve an excellent UX design, every UX/UI designer, Product designer and UX architect must be aware of different types of UX design tools, which will help them deliver an outstanding design. These design tools will streamline your workflow and boost creativity.

To achieve an awesome user experience, easy to use, user-friendly, which will result in absolute customer satisfaction, it is essential to have a smooth designing process. This can be achieved by using UX designing tools available in the market.

With a lot of focus shown by companies on UX design, UX designers are provided with many tools for creating a better user experience. However, among these, some top three tools are continuing to generate top-class user experience.

Top 3 user experience designing tools and their features

  1. Sketch: Prototyping, UX Design UI, Design
  2. AdobeXD: Micro Interaction, Prototyping, UX Design
  3. Figma: Prototyping, UX Design, Collaboration, UI Design

Sketch :  

 A sketch is a design tool for mac vector-based and focusing on user interface design. It’s easy to pick up and is costing a fraction of the price of Photoshop. Because of its simplicity, anyone with little to no training can learn Sketch. On top, it is perfect for today’s need for designing for multiple devices like mobile, web, tablet and smartwatches.

The Sketch is Developed by a Dutch company named Bohemian and released in 2010 and won the Apple design award in 2012. The Sketch is the ultimate tool for iOS, Android and web design. Its weight is 45MB in disk space as compared to photoshop it’s 2.16 GB. Its remarkable features are used for wireframing, Prototyping and an excellent user interface. But, the saddest part is that it is designed only for use on MAC Operating systems.

It is costing around $99 for a year and an optional renewing feature of $79 per year for individuals.

For Teams, it’s $9 per contributor seat, monthly or $99 billed yearly.

Big Companies like Apple and Facebook often release their UI kits Sketch first.

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Sketch View

Adobe XD : 

If you are new to the UI/UX designing world, Adobe Xd is one of the most popular design tools to use, designed by Adobe Inc back in the year 2016. It was previously known as “project comet” and was launched on mac with minimal features. Updates after updates adding more features based on the feedback received by its growing user base.

Adobe then released its beta version for mac os, windows 10, iOS and Android. To offer an excellent user experience (UX), Adobe XD supports Vector Designing. Besides, Adobe XD is also supporting website wireframing, which is a process to develop a mock website before the actual website.

It is used for wireframing, Micro interaction and Prototyping. It also has several plugins available in the market. As one of the UX design applications tools used to build a variety of prototypes, Adobe XD is simple to use and is free to install. For professionals and small teams, $9.99 a month.

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Adobe XD View

Figma :  

Figma is an interface design application that runs in the browser, but it’s much more than that. I want to say it’s probably the best application for team-based collaborative design projects. Figma is a new tool with features almost similar to Sketch. Figma is the latest entrant into UI design tools that quickly supports a UX /UI designer in composing and designing interfaces. As a cloud-based tool, it helps multiple users work simultaneously on a project. We all have seen how Google Docs works. Figma offers similar features. If a team of UX designers is involved in a particular project, they can now collectively view and edit files, as done in Google Docs. Figma supports Prototyping, UX Design, Collaboration and UI Design.

Figma runs on all operating platforms that run on a web browser. Basically, it can work on Mac, Windows or Linux.

Figma is offering a free plan for starters and two separate subscription plans. The yearly professional plan is priced at $ 12 per editor/month, while as an organization, Figma is available at $ 45 per editor/month.

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Figma View

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Tejas Kor

I look after UX/UI Design and Marketing at Thinkitive. Motto - Building a team that builds the future of Thinkitive Tech! Redesigning and redefining end-to-end product in terms of UX for existing & new users on the platform. Design and delivery of a mobile & desktop platform for a new upcoming business vertical. Interested in UX Design, UI Design, SEO, SMM, and building the brand Structure.

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