Best Ux Design Tools 2018
- 01Demographics
- 02Brainstorming & Ideation Tools
- 03User Flow & Site Map Tools
- 04Wireframing Tools
- 05UI Design Tools
- 06Prototyping Tools
- 07Handoff Tools
- 08Design System Tools
- 09Experience Monitoring Tools
- 10File Management Tools
- 11The 2018 Designer's Toolkit
- 12Most Exciting Tools of 2019
2,775 total responses
753
USA
147
UK
126
Germany
116
France
102
India
1,253
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Main Insights
- The job titles "UX Designer" and "Product Designer" are equally common among respondents.
- 83% of respondents work on a design team of 10 people or less.
- Regardless of company size, most design teams have 10 designers or less.
- 80% of respondents only use Mac for design purposes.
Roles
"Which best describes your role?"
Work Experience
"How many years of experience do you have?"
Company Size
"How many employees work at your company?"
Design Team Size
"How many designers are on your design team?"
Design Team Size Based on Company Size
Platforms
"Which platform(s) do you primarily use for design?"
Experience Design
"What types of experiences are you designing?"
Main Insights
- Traditional media are still best for brainstorming.
- Compared to 2017, Figma passed all three Adobe tools.
Most Popular Brainstorming Tools
"Which tools do you use for brainstorming and ideation?"
Main Insights
- 15% of respondents don't use any special tools for creating user flows.
- Sketch is the most used tool for creating user flows.
- Respondents seem to use their primary tools for as many solutions as possible.
Most Popular User Flow Tools
"Which tools do you use for user flows, site maps, and flow charts?"
Main Insights
- Only 3% of designers reported that they don't create wireframes, despite higher trends of using high-fidelity Design Systems.
- While HTML/CSS was high on the list in 2017, it barely appeared in this year's responses (likely to due a change in options).
Most Popular Wireframing Tools
"Which tools do you use for wireframing?"
Main Insights
- According to this sample, Sketch is still on top.
- In 2017, designers reported InVision Studio as being the most exciting tool of this year but aren't showing strong adoption yet.
- All three Adobe tools continue continue to have almost equal usage.
Most Popular UI Design Tools
"Which tools do you use for interface design?"
Top Tools for Mac and Windows
Main Insights
- Respondents use an average of 3.5 tools to accomplish their prototyping solutions.
- Sketch prototyping has a surprising amount of usage, almost rivaling InVision Classic.
- Framer's new tool, FramerX, is used only slightly more than its predecessor, Framer Classic.
Most Popular Prototyping Tools
"Which tools do you use for prototyping?"
Main Insights
- 12% of respondents don't use handoff tools for delivering designs.
- Compared to 2017, Zeplin passed InVision to take first place.
Most Popular Handoff Tools
"Which tools (if any) do you use for handoff?"
Main Insights
- Sketch is the most highly used Design System tool among respondents.
- 15% of respondents don't have a Design System (down from 28% last year).
- Despite the introduction of InVision Design System Manager (DSM), InVision's Craft still holds much of the market.
Most Popular Design System Tools
"Which tools (if any) do you use to manage your design system?"
Main Insights
- 2 out of 3 respondents aren't using experience monitoring tools.
- 56% of respondents who use experience monitoring tools use Hotjar.
- Responses almost exactly mirror the responses from 2017, indicating that this market hasn't changed much in the last year.
Most Popular Monitoring Tools
"What tools (if any) do you use for experience monitoring?"
Main Insights
- Google Drive and Dropbox continue to be highly used file management solutions. Almost all tools remained in their same positions from 2017.
- 12% of respondents aren't using file management software.
- Usage of Abstract among respondents lept from 7% to 11% since 2017.
Most Popular File Management Tools
"Which tools (if any) do you use for version control and file management?"
Brainstorming
Pencil, Paper, Whiteboard
User Flows
Sketch
Wireframing
Sketch
UI Design
Sketch
Prototyping
InVision (Classic)
Handoff
Zeplin
Design System
Sketch
Monitoring
Hotjar
File Management
Google Drive
Main Insights
- Figma, which was low on the list in 2017, emerges as the most exciting tool of 2019.
- InVision Studio remains near the top, indicating that many respondents have yet to try it—or are still waiting for future development.
- Respondents always seem to keep Framer on their bucket list of design tools.
Most Exciting Tools in 2019
"What tools are you most excited to try in 2019?"
Best Ux Design Tools 2018
Source: https://uxtools.co/survey-2018/
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