UX Tools to Improve Your Workflow

UX Collective Editors
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5 min readJul 9, 2016

Designers have their own favorite tools for wireframing and prototyping, for doing user research and for organizing information in your projects. But there are a number of less noticeable tools and plugins that we use everyday that can give us a boost in productivity and collaboration — as well as resource libraries that can come in handy when you’re starting a new project.

Here is a list of some of these tools that we’ve recently found online. Hope you enjoy!

Design

States.design : layer comps for Sketch

Resource Cards: fonts, icons, sketch resources

Boords: storyboarding made simple

ProtoPie: code-free prototyping tool for smart devices

Layer: messaging design kit for Sketch

The New UXPin is Here

BetterDesign: don’t assume, test — user testing tool

Library: new app from InVision

Adobe Spark: communicate with impact

References & Libraries

Great Apps Timeline: see how the look of some of the great apps changed over time

Bot Explorer — A bot to search and explore bots for messenger, slack, sms, kik and telegram

The World’s Most Powerful 3D Image Library

Ok Google: a list of voice commands available on Google products

Ecomm.design: commerce design and tech inspiration

Apple Design Awards:

Form Design Inspiration

NYC Digital Playbook

UI Inspiration Gallery

Creating Patterns in Sketch

Studio — Podcast for Creative Professionals

This list was created by Fabricio Teixeira and Caio Braga. We hope you find it helpful and share it with your UX friends.

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