From a designer’s point of view a prototyping tool should enable you to create a low, medium or high fidelity prototypes of your product. To further clarify, once the prototype is created the refining process should enable you to easily make changes to the prototype in order to achieve maximum efficiency. Prototypes are an opportunity to try things out and fine-tune the details. They’re an essential tool in communicating to stakeholders, and decision makers, how all of the elements of an idea will function together. Below we will go over a few of the tools that would help a UI designer to create prototypes efficiently.
- Figma allows you to design and prototype your digital experiences, together, in real-time and in one place. Helping you to turn your ideas into products, faster. Figma is built for the browser, so you can use it across any platform (Windows, Mac, Linux and Chromebook). No downloads or updates required. You can make creatives, slides for presentations, but it is also great for prototyping, and collaboration on shared projects.
- Sketch is good because of its ease of use, because it’s very minimal and powerful but it mostly produces. It has a prototyping feature that is somewhat limited. Static mockups that are very pristine and an accurate representation of components in the real software environments like native SDK’s, React or Angular.
- Adobe XD offers a vector-based system for putting together prototypes, including tools for creating interactions, transitions, and other types of dynamic functionality. Adobe XD work well alongside other Adobe family apps like Illustrator and Photoshop. You can edit Adobe images, like a .psd, right in the application.From UI design to UX design, Adobe XD covers all the tools a designer needs from conceptualisation through high-resolution prototypes.