11 Best Prototyping Tools For UI/UX Designers — How To Choose The Right One?

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Invision

Invision is by far the most popular prototyping tool in the world. Their team is constantly adding new features to help designers prototype more efficiently. With InVision’s project management page, you can organize design components into a status workflow. You can set columns for To-do, In progress, Needs review, and Approved, and drag and drop your design components into the appropriate column.You could add interactions and animations to static images. You can upload multiple file types, including JPG, PNG, GIF, AI, and PSD. It has push and pull integrations with apps like Slack, Dropbox, Box, Trello, JIRA and much more.

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Adobe Experience Design CC

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Origami Studio

Origami was initially created by Facebook to help teams build and design products. With this prototyping tool, we can preview the mockup live on our mobile in real time using Origami Live. Also, we can show off our designs in presentations in full screen, on a number of different devices.Sketch and Photoshop designs can be imported into Origami, and your project layers will be preserved, ready to be linked, animated and transformed as needed.

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Sketch

WebSketch is similar to Photoshop in many ways, allowing you to edit and manipulate photos. Sketch’s Vector shapes easily adapt to changing styles, sizes, and layouts, allowing you to avoid a lot of painful hand-tweaking. Sketch’s fully vector-based workflow makes it easy to create beautiful and high-quality artwork from start to finish. In UI design, repeating elements is something very common: buttons, bars, bubbles — all sorts of things; and these reusable elements can be automatically copied and pasted using the sketch app.

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Axure

It also makes sharing a prototype to be viewed by your team or client very easy with the click of a button. Also, Axure RP will publish your diagrams and prototypes to Axure Share on the cloud or on-premises. Just send a link (and password) and others can view your project in a browser.

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Webflow

Webflow’s main selling point is that it provides such robust functionality without the need to write a single line of code. Webflow is heavily focused on web animations, interactions, and responsive web design. Although you can only build, design, and publish the entire site using the visual-based UI.After you refine your UI mockup how you like it, you can turn into a production-ready site with just a click. These features appeal to independent designers, who now have the option to export the prototype without needing developers on-hand.

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Framer.com

Framer is one of the most popular prototyping tools. It’s based on the premise that with the code it is possible to prototype anything, resulting in novel and beautiful designs. It provides a seamless workflow, further complemented by device previewing, version control and easy sharing.In case you do not understand, Framer has a very well structured documentation. Also, there are plenty of how-to videos and courses on Udemy and O’Reilly about the UX prototyping tool. It offers a first-hand view of how flexible and powerful code can be.

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Atomic

Atomic is a web-based tool, that requires Google Chrome. Since it does not have a desktop application it’s a drawback for developers using Firefox, Safari or any other browser. It gives you the flexibility and control you need to fine-tune your interaction: just click the play button to see your changes and animations in action. Atomic provides easy access to all developers by providing a shared prototyping system that is effortless.

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Principle

Principle is built for OS X and comes with an iOS app to mirror live prototypes. Whether you’re designing the flow of a multi-screen app, or new interactions and animations, Principle lets you create designs that look and feel amazing. The app appears very much like the UI of Sketch including other familiar aspects of alignment, art board creation, and screen connections, plus real-time previews. You can also mirror your designs on an iOS device.

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Balsamiq Mockups

We’ll end the list with another powerful prototyping tool called “Balsamiq Mockups”. It replicates the speed and convenience of creating mockups on paper, but on a digital medium. Designers can choose from more than 500 pre — made icons and items — or components they draw themselves. The interactions are basic, and the final, low-fidelity prototype feels more like an interactive, high-fidelity wireframe.

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