Prototyping Tools

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Figma

Figma, headquartered in San Francisco, offers their collaborative design and prototyping application to support digital product and UI development.

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Miro

Miro provides a visual workspace for innovation that enables distributed teams of any size to dream, design, and build the future together. Today, Miro counts more than 60 million users in 200,000 organizations who use Miro to improve product development collaboration, to speed up…

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Figma

Figma, headquartered in San Francisco, offers their collaborative design and prototyping application to support digital product and UI development.

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InVision

InVision is a collaborative design and prototyping platform with features such as freehand drafting mode and interactive mockups, collaboration, idea management, user testing, and integration with Slack and other collaboration tools. According to the vendor, 1 million designers are…

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Sketch

Sketch is a visual design tool of use for application prototyping, coming with a wide variety of extensions, plugins, and an active user community.

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Adobe XD

Adobe XD is a prototyping and UX/UI option for website and mobile application design, featuring a range of UI tools and and templates, a versatile artboard and contextual layer panels, and deep integration with Adobe's creative suite of products for fast import of objects from these…

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Autodesk Inventor

Autodesk Inventor 3D CAD software offers professional-grade 3D mechanical design, documentation, and product simulation tools. These blend parametric, direct, freeform, and rules-based design capabilities. Inventor includes integrated tools for sheet metal, frame design, tube and…

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Axure RP

Axure RP is a software prototyping tool used by UX designers, from Axure Software Solutions in San Diego.

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OmniGraffle

OmniGraffle is a wireframing tool for Mac users.

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UXPin

UXPin is a UX design platform with wireframing, prototyping and interactive mockup features.

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Optimal Workshop

Optimal Workshop, a company in New Zealand, offers their suite of user research tools on a subscription basis, including the Treejack information architecture tool, OptimalSort card sorting test, Chalkmark first-click testing, and other tools.

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iRise

iRise offers a prototyping and design platform for software development.

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Marvel

Marvel is a prototyping and wireframing app.

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Proto.io

Proto.io is a prototyping tool for creating interactive mobile apps.

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Justinmind

Justinmind offer prototyping and interactive mockups for web and mobile apps, supporting interactive graphics, animations, and user testing, collaboration and feedback sharing, and requirements management.

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HotGloo

HotGloo is an online wireframing and prototyping tool. This solution has been designed for all those engaged in the concept, design and development of web or app projects: project managers, information architects, usability experts, freelancers, concept people, digital agencies, web…

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Draftium

Accorind to the vendor, Draftium has 350+ ready-made blocks and 300+ prototype templates that allows you to visualize a website idea within 15-30 minutes. It is a free online turbo prototyping tool for website ideation and collaboration. It helps web-designers or studios, marketers,…

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Pixate (discontinued)

Pixate is an obsolete prototyping platform acquired by Google in 2015 and End-of-Life in October 2016.

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Origami Studio

Origami is a free prototyping tool offered by Meta Platforms. It allows users to build a prototype, run it on an iPhone or iPad, test it, and export code snippets. It was used to create Instagram, Paper, Messenger, Slingshot, Rooms and Groups.

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ProtoPie

ProtoPie is a tool used to turn UI/UX design ideas into interactive prototypes for mobile, desktop, web, all the way to IoT, from the company of the same name in Seoul. Designers can explore, validate, and test design solutions and ideas by creating realistic, production-like prototypes…

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Moqups

Moqups, from Evercoder Software in Romania, is an online tool which the vendor states allows users to go from diagrams, wireframes and prototypes without switching apps or updating across platforms.

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MockFrame by 500apps

MockFrame by 500apps is a wireframe tool to make the user's website and mobile app more aesthetically appealing by designing and prototyping them. It's an online interactive prototyping tool that allows users to create high-fidelity app prototypes without coding or design knowledge.…

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Synopsys Synplify

Synopsys’ FPGA synthesis solution provides Synplify Pro® and Synplify® Premier to accelerate time-to-shipping hardware with deep debug visibility, incremental design, broad language support, and optimal performance and area for FPGA-based products.

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MockupTiger
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Rudrasoft is a small software company (based in Pittsburgh,PA – USA) developing products since 2006. MockupTiger is aprototyping application for Dashboards, Web apps and all types of software. MockupTiger provides widgets for building quick website wireframes, mobile stencils and…

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Pixso
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Learn More About Prototyping Tools

What is Prototyping?

Prototyping is a part of the design process that allows team members to review concepts, share feedback and collaborate during the early stages of a design project. Designers create an interactive mockup of a website, software product or mobile app in order to test concepts before designing the full project. Often UX designers use wireframes to evaluate the flow and usability of the concept before investing too much time in the actual design, and so prototyping platforms may also contain wireframing tools. Some tools also offer usability testing programs wherein real users will test and provide feedback on your design concept.

Prototypes, as opposed to wireframes, are working models or mockups of websites or web apps, designed to present a closer to finalized experience for user testing than a wireframe. Prototypes include animations and graphics to exemplify the aesthetic and functional qualities of the web application or website.

Prototyping Features & Capabilities

Prototyping tools may include some of the following functionalities:

  • Image editing capabilities
  • Drag-and-drop design tool
  • Direct uploading of various file types (PSD, GIF, JPG, etc.)
  • Interactive mockups
  • Advanced animations and transitions
  • Photoshop sync
  • Sharing features
  • Collaboration features such as commenting and threading
  • Version control
  • User testing

Pricing Information

There are a wide range of tools to help designers create and test prototypes. The simplest tools may be free and support small teams or single individuals managing a single project. Enterprise level tools brand themselves as collaborative design platforms and allow teams to build workflows and collaborate, with features such as commenting, threading, version control, etc. Many tools offer free plans with no collaboration features, and paid versions that allow multiple users to interact.

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