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5 Best Tools for
Designing a Mobile
App UI Design
Mobile apps have become
the new permanent in the
online domain these days.
Having a mobile app is
an essential element of
your business transaction.
From food ordering to
shopping an app is the first
preference of the user.
So, getting an app is the
first thing that you look
for when you set up your
business in e-commerce or
are looking to enhance the
customer connect of your
enterprise. But getting an
app is not that easy, you
need to ensure the efficacy
of the same to provide
suitability of operation to
the users.
UI/UX design or the user
interface design is a
critical aspect of mobile
app development when
we talk about making
user end performance
seamless and effective.
Since UI/UX is the point
of contact for the user in
regards to the operation of
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the application any glitch
in this regards renders
the efforts put in futile.
Thus, in the design and
development phase of the
mobile app ensuring the
user suitability of the app
is crucial.
If you are looking to get a
UI/UX developed for your
app or are a budding UI/
UX designer then we have
some crucial insights for
you. Yes, you got it right we near future.
are going to discuss some
of the best UI design tools
out there.
What more you need, just
carry on reading until the
very end and get a note of
these popular and effective interface design solution.
tools that you can use to
develop the UI/UX of your
choice. Let’s get started.
Adobe XD
This is one of the most
effective mobile app UI/
UX design tools. The tool
provides you with all the
designer on the table. The
most preferred tools of
designers that are:
designing tools from • Wire-framing tool
prototyping to wireframe • Visual design tool
on one single platform. • Illustrator
To add to its efficacy the are seen present in Sketch
Adobe XD is quite fast in which makes its adoption
terms of processing and among designers a natural
easy to learn and adapt for choice. Simple operation
a budding UI/UX designer. and feature add another
Though it lags behind its feather to its cap.
nearest competitor Sketch
in certain aspects the tool Marvel’s POP
has all the potential to be
the domain leader in the The Prototyping on Paper
(POP) from the house of
Marvel is one useful design
Sketch tool. Being an app based
Android OS compatible
Said to be one of the tool it finds a good number
best UI/UX design tool of takers.
in the market at present,
Sketch is a comprehensive Talking about prototyping
as a part of mobile app UI/
Based on Mac UX design then you can
Operating System, surely lay your trust on
Sketch is a lightweight POP. One can easily upload giant Facebook.
development tool. pictures and sketches
to the app and can even
Professional features like upload the same to Adobe
infinite zooming option, creative cloud. To do away
styled vector shapes, 2x with the storage worries
export facility provides all POP comes integrated
that you need as a UI/UX with dropbox
The POP app has no visual best parts about the tool
constraint and commences is that it is freely available
for download. This makes
with the images of hand-
drawn app sketches by it quite an effective option
for firms looking for cost-
connecting them together
efficiency in the design and
on the mobile.
development process.
Axure RP For the testing and
assessment purpose, the
Axure RP is one of the
Origami studio allows the
most comprehensive and
complete design tools that
with the Android and iOS
are available in the market users to connect itself
out there. The tool allows OS based device. Through
this feature preview of the
you to design flowcharts, design can be done and
idea, user journey, any changes (if made)
graphical documentation can be observed on a
apart from wireframes real-time basis.
and prototyping.
Axure RP brings with it
an option that allows
coders ready to use coded
components and libraries
to create some seamless,
effective and need-based
design. The tool supports
Windows and X OS.
Origami Studio
The tool comes in with the
brand name of Facebook
on its back. This popular
mobile app user interface
design tool has been
created by the engineers at
the social networking
If you have any worries in
regards to its performance
then the very fact that the
tool is used by Facebook
to design its apps would
vein it away. One of the Abjit Maharjan
Sr. UX Designer
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