What software do UI designers need to use?

The importance of tools for designers cannot be overstated. Any idea needs to be realized with the help of tools. To become a good UI designer, you need to master some more skills to enhance their competitiveness. At the same time also want to give those who want to switch to do UI designers some tool suggestions, next we will take stock of those UI designers must learn the design tools.

Sketch-powerful vector drawing toolSupport platform: Mac only

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Sketch is a powerful interface design tool, specially designed for UI designers to create software that can make your interface design easier and more efficient. If you are a UX or UI designer, then you must know Sketch as a powerful UI interface design software. If you want to change your career to be a UI designer, then you can't miss this great design tool.

In Sketch, users can easily set up the layer panel, batch naming of layers, intelligent labeling of the page, fill the avatar and text, etc., and can realize the multi-layer fill, gradient, noise and other operational functions; Sketch provides "export all" function, because it is vector-based, so you can export the PDF, JPG and PNG (optional 2x) formats. It is important to mention that Sketch provides designers with a wealth of plug-ins that increasingly meet the design needs of different groups of people, and all the tools you need are at your fingertips.

Features:

Excellent user experience

Very simple and easy to use

Provides a large number of practical plug-ins

Sketch plug-in collection can be poked: sketch.im

2. ?Photoshop-powerful image processing software

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Support platform: Windows & Mac?

Photoshop is one of the most popular image editors, UI designers to start the necessary interface design tools. I believe that the design industry is not a small friend, but also know a little. PS as a UI interface design artifacts, has a powerful image editing and processing capabilities, what you want the graphics can be realized with PS, can be used for post-production of photography, you can add a variety of filters to the image to adjust the brightness, contrast, etc., to generate high-resolution graphics. With the help of the Layers panel, it is very easy and efficient to process and repair images; and PS offers the option to save in different file formats and adjust the image size and resolution without losing the quality of the image.

PS: If you want to create icons, you need to use vector drawing software AI to create them so that the zoom will not be distorted.

Features:

Photo processing techniques (crop background, crop, adjust light, adjust color, filter, eliminate red-eye and other functions)

Powerful layer function Save original when processing copies

Batch processing of photographs

Compatible with other Abode suite of programs such as After Effect. InDesign, Illustrator

Photoshop can save images to various formats

3.? Mimic Prototype - Rapid online prototyping interface design tool web link

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Supported platforms: Windows & Mac?

Powerful high-fidelity prototyping, and collaboration platforms are fully integrated. Rapid output and fine design at the same time: product managers and UX designers can quickly complete interaction prototyping and easily create flowcharts; UI designers can achieve pixel-level fidelity.?

Features:

New main and auxiliary drawing board mode, you can flexibly create different interaction effects.

Support multiple people to edit the same project online at the same time, **** the same to complete the APP prototype design.

With the Pen Tool, Pencil Tool, Boolean, Responsive Layout and other special features, the design creation is free at will

Support page interaction, state interaction, command interaction, as well as set up a variety of triggers and curves to quickly create interactive prototypes.

Support for drawing flowcharts directly in the design to clearly show project logic.

Applicable scenarios: Medium/high fidelity prototypes, rapid prototypes, WEB/mobile/tablet prototypes, wireframes, visualizations

4. Zeplin - a powerful collaboration tool

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Supporting platforms: Windows & Mac

Specialized in collaborative interface design tools for UI designers and development engineers. A collaborative interface design tool for UI designers and development engineers. As a UI designer, you need to communicate your designs to the development team, and Zeplin is designed to do just that.Zeplin is easy to use, designers upload their UI designs directly from Sketch, the app automatically generates some comments, and on the right hand side of the panel you will visually see the size, color, margins, and even the code information for each element.

Additionally, the app will automatically generate some annotations.

Additionally, UI designers can add annotations, markup, and notes to developers directly on the UI interface. Filling in the communication gap between developers and designers saves a lot of valuable time for designers and developers.

Features:

Good user experience

Easily view interface spacing, size, color, etc.

Create styles to help the design team stay consistent.

Quickly synchronize projects in Sketch via plugins

Support PS, Sketch, Adobe and other tools

5.?AE-Powerful Visual Processing Software for Kinetic Effects

Support platforms: Windows & Mac

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Adobe After Effects abbreviated as "AE" is an interface design tool launched by Adobe on graphics and video processing, nowadays the application of dynamic design in UI interface design has become more and more widely used, and many domestic companies are beginning to pay attention to dynamic design, so as a UI designer, you should also pay attention to dynamic design, so as a UI designer, you should also pay attention to dynamic design. So as a UI designer, you should also master some of the kinetic effect design. The application of kinetic effect in UI design is actually more powerful than we imagined, a good kinetic effect design can provide users with a good visual experience, so as to strengthen the interactive experience with the user.

AE this interface design tool can help UI designers to image video for any special effects processing, is a flexible layer-based 2D and 3D post-synthesis software, contains hundreds of special effects and preset animation effects, can be seamlessly combined with Premiere, Photoshop, Illustrator and other software to create unparalleled visual effects. It also draws on the successes of many great software programs to take image and video effects compositing to a new level.

Features:

Stunning visual effects

Seamless compatibility with Premiere, Photoshop, Illustrator

Plus tool-Dreamweaver

Supported platforms:

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Dreamweaver is a web code editor that helps designers and programmers to quickly create and build websites. The reason why it is listed separately is because I think UI designers not only need to master some interface design tools, but also need to learn and understand some front-end layout and design, in order to better cooperate with the front-end engineers to do a good job of product development.UI designers who understand some basic code knowledge, can be a plus point in the interview to stand out.