Get started with these UX/UI tools
If you are a new designer welcome to the world of design. I hope you are as excited as me when I found my passion for UX.
Let’s start building your UX & UI toolkit.
When you are asking yourself which tools to use always quality over quantity. I found this to be true in almost all aspects of life.
This is totally my toolbox and you are free to use whatever you feel most comfortable with
Communication
- Messaging: Slack & Email
- Video: Zoom and Hangouts
Productivity
- Time management: Toggl (It’s free!) or Harvest timer
- Project management: Jira (Most often used), Asana, Notion, Trello or Basecamp. (Depending on the company or client)
- Managing meetings: Google Calendar
Design
- Interface & high fidelity wireframes: Sketch and Figma
- Lo-fi wireframes: Balsamiq, Sketch paper with sharpies which I airdrop to Invision Freehand
- Design System: Zeroheight, DSM
- Prototyping: Invision and Marvel App
- Dev export: Invision Inspect, Zeplin
- Remote testing: Lookback
- Measure: Hotjar, Google Analytics
- User surveys: SurveyMonkey, Google Forms, Mailchimp
Sharing Files
- Sketch Cloud, Google Suites, Dropbox, WeTransfer (up to 2 Gigs!)
Finance
- Wave (loving this at the moment for my consulting work), Zoho
Other things in my toolkit:
- Loads of sharpies & sticky notes
- Sketch paper: Sketch sheets and sneakpeekit
- UI stencils
Frontendy tip: If you do have the time Webflow is a great tool to create a close to weblike site.
I hope this will get you to a great kickoff in your first design project. :) This list isn’t extensive and I have not listed all possible tools. If you are interested in specific UX/UI roles always check tools required in the job spec and see if they are used for most positions.
That's me out, keep on experimenting and master your craft!
