Madza

Posted on Aug 10, 2020

What design tools do you use?

#webdev #discuss #productivity #ui

I mainly use Figma and Canva for website design.
I also use GIMP for image editing, InkScape for vector graphics and Draw.io for sketches, wireframing.

What are your favorite design tools?

Oldest comments (30)

Benjamim Chambule • Aug 10 '20

I use Balsamiq mockups for wireframing and Start UML for modeling.

riidom • Aug 10 '20

All you mentioned in your 2nd sentence, basically. To add to it, if you deal with lots of reference images, PureRef is great. And for some things I use Blender.

Manyong'oments • Aug 10 '20

Definitely going to check that out. Thanks

𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐝𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐝 • Aug 10 '20

Photoshop for designs
XD for wireframes

Andrew Baisden • Aug 10 '20 • Edited

Curious what make you choose XD over other UI/UX tools? There is so much choice its hard to choose one I think sometimes.

𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐝𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐝 • Aug 11 '20

I think predominantly because my company is paying for the Creative Suite, so it was bundled there and ready for me to use :) I've honestly not tried anything else... is there another bit of software you'd recommend?

Andrew Baisden • Aug 11 '20

Yes Adobe XD might be bundled with the creative suite but it's also free without it which I think is pretty cool. XD is great the only other one I would recommend trying is Figma which is also free to use in the browser and on desktop. It syncs across all platforms. Sketch is another good one but honestly I have barely touched because it is macOS only and XD and Figma are more than good enough plus they are multi platform.

David Dal Busco • Aug 10 '20

I can add Affinity Designer to the list of suggested tools.

szmass • Aug 10 '20

If you prefer writing to drawing (like i do) plantuml.com/

Manyong'oments • Aug 10 '20

Thanks

Arnaud Cortisse • Aug 11 '20

Always used it at my previous jobs :)

Shaiju T • Aug 10 '20

What to use to draw technology architecture flow ? for example the flow goes from UI to API then to notification API then to mongo DB ?

Madza • Aug 10 '20

for that I would use Draw.io, it's pretty awesome for diagrams, flowcharts, architecture modeling, etc 😉

FJones • Aug 10 '20

XD and UXPin for prototyping, Photoshop for graphics.

Manyong'oments • Aug 10 '20 • Edited

Everything you mentioned, except Canva & Draw IO. Inkscape is my primary go to, even though the layers features could be better (I wish it was organized just like Figma & Gimp). Inkscape has this truly divine feature called bitmap trace which is available under the path header. I love gimp for the effects and Figma, for its amazing alignment and multi canvas.