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UXPin
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UXPin has great advanced features for prototyping
integration if this then dop that and custom javascript functionality
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Expensive subscription model
$29 per user/mo ($350 pa) will soon rack up compared to a standalone product like Axure PRO ($450) which has a license that lasts years (they have given out free updates for the last 2 versions).
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Actively developed
UXPin is constantly being updated with new features.
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Steep learning curve
UXPin is one of the more complex prototyping tools. Combined with a lack of documentation, it can be discouraging for first time users.
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Import from PhotoShop and Sketch
A pro UXPin account will allow you to import existing projects from PhotoShop or Sketch.
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Extensive library of elements and patterns
UXPin offers elements from a wide range libraries. This includes responsive frameworks such as Bootstrap and Foundation, and libraries specific to mobile prototyping.
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Justinmind
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Reusable components
You can create reusable components that you can use over and over again.
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Expensive
Pricing is $19 per month or $495 for a perpetual license.
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Adaptive and responsive designs
You can create adaptive and responsive designs that will react to the viewport/screen size of the user.
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Moderate learning curve
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Functional prototypes
You can create HTML prototypes with full interactions.
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Supports low, med, and high fidelity
You can create simple wireframes, pixel perfect screens, or anything in between.
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Lots of online tutorials
The free Getting Started area has plenty of advice for getting started with Justinmind.
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Free forever
After one month trying the pro version, it changes to a completely free version with a few limitations.
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$0-$29/mo
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UX-App
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Prototype with graphical JavaScript
UX-App uses a drag and drop puzzle like JavaScript representation. Unique and expressive
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Mock up & prototype in the browser
Allows you to mock up with real HTML, and present expressive prototypes in the browser. Has lots of conveniences like team chat, notes, and a share link to present prototypes.
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Long free trial & cheap subscription
It's possible to start without creating an account. Creating a free account extends the trial, and the memberships are cheap @ $5/month.
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ProtoPie
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Smooth and gradual learning curve
As the interface is very clean and simple, it enables you to create interactions by combining objects, triggers and responses just like that. No need for wireframing or shitty mockups, just get to hi-fi prototyping right away.
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Native prototyping
Deploy prototypes on any device right away. What's the point of prototyping mobile apps if you cannot deploy it on your mobile devices easily?
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IoT, Interactions across devices
Create prototypes e.g. chat platforms, payment apps etc. and deploy them on multiple devices and have them communicate with each other.
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Utilizes sensors very easily
Easily control the sensors of smart devices in your prototype, such as tilt, sound, compass, proximity sensor, vibration motor and 3D Touch sensors.
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Runs on Mac and Windows
It offers the same features on both MacOS and Windows. Plus, you can switch machines as long as you are logged in to ProtoPie Studio.
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Fast and easy sharing
Sharing is very easy via the cloud. Open the prototype in desktop or mobile browser, or deploy the prototype on the ProtoPie Player app. All is possible.
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Code Free
No coding needed to do interactions for your prototypes. You just choose the objects and link them with the triggers and responses you want to based on your preferred interactions.
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Platforms:
macOS, Windows, iOS & Android
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$129
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Moqups
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Fast and doesn't require any plugins
Moqups is built in HTML5 and standard Javascript, so it doesn't require any plugins to use. The application is very fast to use.
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Supports 960gs
As well as a standard snap-to-grid, Moqups supports the 960 gridsystem.
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Free tier
The Free Plan offers 2 active projects with at most 300 stencils each and 5 MB of storage. This plan does not include: Master Pages, Real Time Collaboration, Privacy Settings, Unlimited Revisions, Unlimited Project Archiving and Teams.
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Clean design and very intuitive
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Keyboard shortcuts
Moqups has an extensive list of keyboard shortcuts. Simply type some A-Z letters to search for components. F1 for an overlay help screen.
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Modern Material elements
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Free upgrades for nonprofit/education
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$12-39/mo
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Axure
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Supports web and mobile prototyping
Allows creation of interactive HTML mock-ups which is accessible for both websites and mobile applications.
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Moderate learning curve
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Lots of options for sharing your work
Great web options, but you can also save your wire frames out to Word and convert the notes to annotations.
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Expensive [$289-$589]
There is a free trial to work with Axure, but there is a hefty price for the standard edition at $289. Even more so, the Pro edition will cost $589.
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Resuable components
You can create a component (widget) that you can use over and over again.
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Cross-platform
Available for use on Windows and Mac.
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Collaboration tools
You can set up a project with SVN-like check-in/out system to work with others.
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Offers resources to help you get proficient with the software
There is a wealth of online training including videos for getting the basics down, a great community to mine, and support team to help assist with more technical details.
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Platforms:
Windows, Mac
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Figma
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Works in the browser
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Inefficient workflow
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Allows for real time collaboration
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Live previews for mobile
Mirrors your designs to your phone in realtime.
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Has all the core functionality you'd expect from something like Sketch
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Integrates with Slack
Provides integration with Slack.
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Provides a free version
Does not require a paid subscription for use. Can be used freely with a lot of features. The free use allows very limited collaboration.
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Affinity Designer
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One-time purchase
Rather than a monthly subscription based model, Affinity Designer instead has a one-time fee ($49.99).
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No plug-in architecture, so can't be tailored to specific purposes
Some applications (e.g. Sketch) have an open plug-in framework, by which the software can be extended by independent/third-party developers according to popular trends.
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Intuitive user interface
The user interface of many graphic editing software programs can often be discouraging for beginners. Affinity Designer, however, has a very well laid out and intuitive user interface with a small learning curve.
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Treats all objects as filled
You can't select objects on the canvas by clicking on them, if they're surrounded by another object (like a rectangle or a frame). Designer treats all objects as filled, so if you've drawn a frame or outline or an object with a hole in it, you can't select objects within that hole directly. You have to laboriously iterate through all objects in a list until you get to the one you want. This is an extremely common situation, which cripples the entire product. Very surprising and unfortunate defect.
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Powerful artistic tools
Extensively tweakable brush types, color options...
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Extended slicing and export possibilities
An object can easily be transformed into a slice that can then be exported in various sizes end formats in 1 go. E.g. Export slice A as PNG 1x, 2x and 3x AND GIF 1x AND SVG.
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Powerful symbol managemment
Symbols can get individual property changes (color, shape, layer effects, fonts text...) while the other properties stay linked with the base symbol.
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Sketch Alternative (Great for Mixed OS Teams)
For those working in mixed environments that aren't 100% MacOS, you'll find devoting yourself to Sketch.app brings with it...pain. If this fits the bill for what you need feature-wise and you're in a mixed OS environment, it's a very capable replacement for Sketch.app. Note that it doesn't have all the same features, but then again it doesn't need all the same features. Short of organization differences inside the document you're working on, there shouldn't be anything you can't do with Affinity Designer that you could have with Sketch.
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Cross platform
Available on both Windows and MacOS
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SVG Support
In the era of "retina" displays, 4k UHD, 5k, and even 8k, Scalar Vector Graphics - independent vector images that can scale to any resolution without any display quality loss - are more important now than ever. And this tool is quite capable of rendering true SVG output suitable for consumption at any display resolution (not a big bunch of rasterized bits in the document, actual paths, points, etc.).
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Focused vector graphics tool
Unlike some design tools, Affinity Designer isn't trying to be all things to all people. It's focused on its main area of expertise: vector graphics. That's not to say you can't use a raster image (think a photo in *.jpeg format for example), but it's not built to do much with that other than using it somewhere amidst the layers and that's about it.
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Integrates well with Affinity Photo
These are companion apps & switching between them is built in - Photo is a very powerful raster tool with a feature set close/better to Photoshop, it will also use some Photoshop plugins. This allows you to add-on powerful raster capabilities if you want them - put doesn't force you to.
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Excellent Photoshop/Illustrator import & export
Best I have seen in a non Adobe app, you can use most of the Photoshop mock-ups and templates easily. Opens most Adobe files to a level to be able to effectively use the content. Allows cross team collaboration across tool-chains.
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Powerful
The new version 1.5 has a very powerful feature set such as support for symbols and asset windows, as well as constraints controls and improved export options. This all adds up to an interesting alternative to Adobe Illustrator.
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Platforms:
Windows, MacOS, IOS
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PNG, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PSD, PDF, SVG, EPS, EPS, EXR, HDR
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Diagrams.net
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Rich functionality for a web-based application
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Import from Visio .vsd is useless
Even simple diagrams get all scattered.
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Integrates with multiple cloud storage services
Draw.io offers saving files directly to services such as Google Drive, OneDrive or Dropbox along with saving to to computer.
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Behaves strangely for certain diagram types
For example the snapping function for arrows doesn't work properly for the sequence diagram template.
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Real-time collaboration
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Great flexibility customizing text labels
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Completely free
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There is also a Desktop version
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Good list of different output formats
Draw.io supports export for PNG, GIF, JPEG, PDF, SVG, HTML, and XML.
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Internet Explorer 6-8 and touch device support
Draw.io works with every browser (even IE 6) without plugins.
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Platforms:
Web, desktop
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Apache v2 (Github repo too)
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Pidoco
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Easy to use
Pidoco has a simple, intuitive drag&drop interface. Context menus and context-sensitive toolbars make editing super quick.
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Web-based
Not a local application, so you can't use it without being online.
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Lots of dynamic UI elements and icons
Pidoco offers a large library of 400+ interactive interface elements as well as an extensive set of icons as building blocks.
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Easily share and collect reviews
So simple to invite reviewers and collaborators and to collect feedback!
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Includes custom templates that speed up prototyping
Can use a variety of options to save time and avoid duplicate work, e.g. layers, custom elements, scroll frame references. Global layers and reusable custom templates speed up prototyping.
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Screem transitions/animations
Offers an easy way to simulate common types of screen transition effects including for swipe interactions or adding delays. Also allows for sequential reactions.
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Live preview
Direct simulation of prototypes possible by switching from editing to preview mode.
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Screen map
A screenmap lets you easily link individual prototype pages. This is also great for uploading screenshots and linking them via action hotspots.
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Mobile prototypes
It's possible to simulate the prototypes directly on mobile devices - in the browser or with an handy app.
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Entire project can be easily updated with layers
Assets can be placed in layers and displayed on several pages. Provides for easy updating of entire project in case of changes.
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Lucidchart
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Limited functionalities for customizing look & feel
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Integrates with a variety of services
Lucidchart has Google Drive, Google Apps, JIRA, Confluence, Jive, and Box integration.
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Limitation for free users
Limit to 60 components per document and up to 3 documents.
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Revision history
Keeps track of previous version of files and is capable of reverting any changes made.
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Only web version available
Desktop or other platforms are not supported.
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Simple UI
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Secure
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Tutorials
A selection of tutorials are available.
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No data ownership
Users keep all rights to documents created using Lucidchart services.
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Can import and export Microsoft Visio documents
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Platforms:
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Balsamiq
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Low-fidelity UI elements
All the Balsamiq UI elements are drawn by hand and have a really nice low-fidelity design.
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Stifling innovation
Doing anything that is not directly supported by Balsamiq's conservative component library is next to impossible. User is forced to think within the corset of yesterday's standards.
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Clean and easy to use interface
Balsamiq has a very easy to use drag and drop interface that lets you quickly build and adjust your mockups. The UI is centered around low-fidelity wireframes that help focus the reviews on the core layout and functionality instead of getting hung-up on visual design.
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No easy way to quickly play with the product
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Large & extensible UI element library
Balsamiq has a built in library of over 75 built-in user interface components and 187 icons, as well as community generated plug-ins.
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Awesome team collaboration features
myBalsamiq has been built with teams in mind and has a variety of featured to support collaborating on the mockups: Notifications - Real-time notifications to enable you to keep track of team member actions Revision Control - All mockups have a revision history to enable reverting to previous versions and keeping track of design decisions. Skype Integration - Easy to use Skype integration to host design reviews. Access Control - Access controls allow sharing projects with team members as well as allowing external reviewers to leave comments on the designs.
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Usability testing features
You can link together pages to create shareable user demos
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30-day trial available
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Keyboard shortcuts
You can use common keyboard shortcuts like Shift to select multiple elements or to resize while maintaing proportions, F2 for renaming labels etc.
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$9-199/m
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MockFlow
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Export to PNG, PDF, HTML
Export to PNG, PDF and HTML formats.
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Need a Flash plugin
Flash is a technology of the past. Unfortunately, they use it. "MockFlow requires Flash Player 10 or above."
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Easy to learn
Easy to pick-up. In few minutes you can sketch your first pages.
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Online software
You can use it online. No download, no install, no mess.
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Free basic account
The free basic account give you a lot of features, all for free, forever.
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HTML5 rendering
Use many Bootstrap components and get the HTML5 view quickly. Sketch, see, repeat.
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Fireworks
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Can be used for the entire life-cycle of the design
From lo-fidelity wireframe, into clickable prototype and then assemble the images for the final hi-fi build as well.
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Is being phased out
Adobe is ditching Fireworks. So those nasty bugs will never get fixed.
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Layer Sharing
Features such as 'Layer Sharing' allows you to quickly update shared components such as headers across multiple pages. Other mockup tools such as Mockingbird will require you to manually propagate changes across all the pages.
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PSD compatible
Open PSD files
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Awesome Symbol Libraries
A significant advantage over web-app style mockup tools are the symbol libraries for Fireworks. From boagworld: Both symbols, styles and vector shapes can be saved for re-use and collected into useful library resources. In addition Fireworks ships with a common library of useful objects including buttons, browser and application elements for both Mac and Windows look and feel.
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Creately
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Professionally designed templates
The templates are well thought-out and actually helps you get started. Not like many other sites where the details are already filled in.
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Watermark on export for free users
If you are a free user, exporting a document will create a watermark.
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Easy and simple to use
Consist with an example diagram which we can use to draw the diagram. Most required diagrams are available.
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Web version requires Flash
Flash is known to have security flaws and use high resources.
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Works across all operating system (Windows/MacOS/Linux)
Does not require flash.
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Dekstop version is commercial
If you want to use dekstop version, you need to pay $75.00/ user.
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Intuitive UI
Easy to use drag and drop interface and a contextual toolbar that shows you all the important actions when you select an object. The automatic creation and connecting of next object alone saves tons of time.
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Real time collaboration
You can invite anyone by their email addresses to collaborate with your diagram. You can see others' changes to the diagram real time with the Creately Online and Desktop app.
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Visio Import
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iSO and Android apps to view diagrams
You can't edit diagram using the apps but provides a nice clean interface to view, share and comment on them.
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SVG import and export
Creately supports SVG (Scalar Vector Graphics) import and export to make your diagrams more attractive. It allows you to re-size your diagram as much as you want without getting it messed up.
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Platforms:
Windows, Mac, Linux, Web
Exports:
JPEG, PNG, PDF, SVG
Real-time collaboration:
Yes
Imports:
JPEG, PNG, SVG, VISIO
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Invision
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Free plan
Invision offers a free plan to anyone that is limited to one project. While the free plan is a bit limited it does allow the user to trial the software for as long as they like to decide on its merits and whether it is worth paying for the more robust options.
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While Invision acts as an all-in-one environment for design, it may become a nuisance
These times, teams are not using just a single app or tool for everything. It's not unheard of for teams to be using up to a dozen different tools for their work. Invision works as an all-in-one environment for product design and unfortunately it does not integrate with other tools. This may be a nuisance for teams that want to integrate different tools in their workflow.
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Presents designs in a way that mimics an actual web browsing experience
Once uploaded on Invision, the screen will be presented in a way that will behave as an actual web page. This is especially easy for showing the work to clients, more so if compared to just showing them a .PDF, which may make it look like the page is "too crowded".
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Expensive for just a hosting platform
Invision is a tool for building click through prototypes and getting feedback on them, you need to design everything in another app and upload them, it isn't a design tool.
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Supports gestures, transitions & animations for web, iOS & Android
Hotspot links can be created for every page, and once it's done, for each one of them gestures and transitions can be registered. Invision supports various gesture types: swiping, double tapping, sliding, etc...
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Real-time collaboration and VOIP chat
Live Share allows you to collaborate in real-time using an in-browser screen share. Each collaborator gets their own mouse, so you can easily point and see what someone is talking about. You can also sketch, and chat right inside the Live Share interface. Invision's Live Share gives team members the ability to collaborate in real-time through a screen share inside their browser. Each collaborator has their cursor which they can use and edit or add notes in real-time. On top of that, Invision also has a VOIP chat which works inside the browser.
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Design files are automatically synced and their version history tracked
Invision uses Invision Sync or Dropbox to automatically save design files on the cloud. Furthermore, it has version control built in. This is especially helpful if a team is going through different versions for a specific design and they want to return again and again to previous designs.
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Great built-in feedback features
Invision allows clients, stakeholders or any team members to leave comments and feedback inside the design which will be displayed as a point on the page itself. These paints can be discussed or even be turned into tasks. This makes it easy for designers to go through what they need to work on, and once it's done, the task can be checked off.
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Microsoft PowerPoint
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De facto standard
PowerPoint is the most widely used presentation app.
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Is poor at handling animation-heavy presentations
Adding too many animations might cause it to slow down quite significantly, as well as on older versions more complicated animations might not work very well.
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Lots of free templates
Because PowerPoint is so common, there are tons of free templates found within the program or online.
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Excellent integration with Windows
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FluidUI
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User friendly
The learning curve is relatively low compared to other software that supports animations/transitions. Both building the wireframes and designing the interactions is all drop and drag.
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Tools for team collaboration
Work with your team on a design. Connect on live video calls and chat or add comments.
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Supports realistic gestures & transitions
You can simulate all the typical iOS gestures such as tap, double tap, swipe & long hold. These gestures then can trigger animated transitions such as sliding, fading, pop in, & flip. This enables you to create very realistic interactable demos of your app. Checkout the demo page for some examples.
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Awesome version control
Every action you or your team takes automatically creates a revision you can easily revert to.
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Provides UI assets from all the versions of iOS
The UI library is huge and very high quality. All the UI required to design iO7 apps is included as well as iOS 6 and basic wireframing elements. For example in iOS7 it provides: Backgrounds Navigation & status bars Layouts (list pickers, maps, keyboards, scroll etc) Controls Typography Icons
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Fast
Using the app is feels very snappy.
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Free forever for a single project & 10 screens
They have a very reasonable free tier with the paid versions starting at $12/month.
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Lets you test on an iPhone as well as in the browser
You can preview your designs live in the browser as well as send them to a mobile device to better simulate the UX.
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Makes it easy to plan out the app workflow
Fluid isn't just about wireframing static screens. You can plan out all the user flows and then define the transitions between them. This is really handy for planning out the entire user workflow.
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Avocode
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Offers a 14-day free trial
Allows users to be able to get comfortable and familiar with the service before signing up and paying the subscription fee.
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Subscription fee
After the free trial, users must set up your account with an option of their 3 subscription services - Garage, Business, and Enterprise [$8.99, $12.99, or TBD]. The cost is low, but monthly.
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Includes collaboration tools
Allows designers and developers to view revisions and interact on the fly by posting comments on the revisions instead of going through multiple e-mails back and forth.
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Cross-platform
Usable on Mac, Windows and Linux.
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Sketch and Photoshop support
Contains plugins that allow designers to share any designs with developers.
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Sketch
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Designed specifically for web and mobile UI design & workflows
Sketch is essentially a version of Photoshop built from the ground up to suit the workflow of web designers.
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No Windows support
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Active community with a lot of resources
Sketch is hugely popular among designers so there are a lot of well maintained community resources for everything from iPhone frames to iOS/Android UI elements & icons.
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No Linux version
Sketch is currently only available on Mac, which can make it hard to collaborate if you have teammates using Linux.
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Clean UI
Reactive panels keep the UI for Sketch clean from the sort of clutter the panel system in Photoshop suffers from. The panels in Sketch change based on the object in question, saving you from having to have a multiple separate panels.
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License based payment model
Sketch has recently decided to cease development of major version (2.0, 3.0, 4.0) with free updates in between, and has switched to a license based subscription model. A yearly license costs $99 and includes the latest version of the Sketch software, plus a year of free updates. After this license expires, you can renew for another year of updates - or continue to use the current software without updates.
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Symbols and shared styles
Sketch lets you re-use the same design in multiple places, with changes synced throughout the various places it is used. You can also create text styles to sync typography changes.
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Buggy releases and lack of quality assurance
The fast rate of change means new releases often break files and cause havoc. Duplicate symbols are really bad in the latest releases so you have to keep updating.
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"Artboards" are great for working on multiple views simultaneously
Artboards let you easily work on multiple views side by side. Great for having a separate artboard on each page for the various responsive sizes.
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Very feeble raster tools
You have to go elsewhere if you want something more complex than basic vector masking of raster images.
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Vector based yet pixel aware
You can rescale assets without quality loss, easily export x2 assets for retina designs and design high quality icons & artwork. Being pixel aware lets you set a grid and snap objects to it as well as round to the nearest pixel edge to clean up your layers.
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Limited compatibility with Photoshop and Illustrator
Although it is possible to export certain Adobe file types in Sketch, compatibility is mostly hit and miss. For example, some elements seem a little offset in Adobe products.
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Makes it easy to export assets
Sketch has a built in exporter that supports PDF, JPG and PNG.
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Built-in grid system
You can set the square grid to whatever dimensions you like as well as set thicker lines every x blocks. You can also configure the color of the lines to make them as obvious or subtle as you wish and toggle the grid with a keyboard shortcut (crtl+g).
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"Mirror" makes it really easy to test designs on multiple devices
Mirror lets you connect your iPhone to sketch and see how your current artboard looks on mobile. It's really useful as you can live check changes which lets you rapidly iterate mobile design.
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Easily align layers with smart guides
Holding down alt will show the smart guides that show the distances between any layer you hover over to nearby layers or the edges of the artboard. Very useful for checking your spacing or aligning layers.
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