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What are the Design tools you use in your daily work flow?

To all designers out there, what are the tools you use? I am talking about the tools you use every day, the tools that are absolutely vital to your work!
ThanasisUI/UX @travelplanet24 @airtickets_gr · Asked
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Sketch

Vector only UI design

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Niklaus GerberProduct Manager Apps @NZZ · Written
Replaces Illustrator and Photoshop for my workflow
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AbhijithCo-Founder, Tenory · Written
Best tool out there to design. Right from quick flowcharts & wireframes to detailed pixel perfect designs.
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Aaron NgProduct Design on Camera & AR @ Facebook · Written
The definitive design tool right now. Many other great contenders, but Sketch really kills it.
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Zeplin 1.0

Collaboration & handoff for UI designers/frontend developers

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AbhijithCo-Founder, Tenory · Written
Design handover is a breeze with zeplin. Love the commenting feature too. Devs love it coz all the design assets come ready in all sizes and formats at their fingertips.
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Basil AbbasFounder and CTO, https://clockit.io · Written
Design collaboration with engineering at its best!!
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InVision

Prototyping & collaboration for design teams

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AbhijithCo-Founder, Tenory · Written
Not sure how your design looks when in the hands of a consumer, invison is the best way to prototype. I use it to build quick prototypes and also to get feedback from team members. It helps devs to understand the flows as well.
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Dribbble

Show and tell for designers (web interface inspiration)

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Dan VineyardProduct Designer · Edited
It is a great place for design inspiration.
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OMurat3D & Web Student - Belgium · Written
I use Dribbble for inspiration, a great place whit great designer.
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The Noun Project

Big database of icons/symbols (public domain, cc, etc.)

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David BaruchelCo-Founder, Bridges · Written
Great for icons and for inspiration (how could one simply represent a difficult concept ?...)
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paulaWritten
Extremely useful and endless!
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WAKE

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jnlwsProduct Designer · Written
Maintaining a collaborative design ecosystem is a large undertaking. Wake provides a no-bullshit environment where my team can mind-meld and I can constantly have a high level view of how design projects are taking shape. Teamwork makes the dream work.
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Thomas KjellbergWritten
The most natural way of sharing and improving your design with your teammates or client. Give feedback and be updated. Cannot really understand how people are getting things done without.
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Principle

Animate your ideas, design better apps

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Ruslan GirichevEmotion Designer · Written
When I need to show animations in just a minute. New mirroring with saving prototypes for offline usage is awesome by the way.
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Jad LimcacoProduct Designer · Written
Principle is awesome! Still the fastest and easiest tool out there in my opinion for micro-interactions.
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Framer Studio

A new interaction design tool

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Sarah KuehnleDesign @ Superpedestrian · Written
I love the flexibility of Framer Studio. With new updates for quickly adding components, working with Type, an active community sharing their work, and easily sharing animations and transitions with developers, this is a tool I can't live without. It's easy to share my prototypes with the team using Framer Cloud too. Can't say enough about this awesome tool.
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Adobe XD

An end-to-end solution for designing & prototyping

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Mutinda BonifaceWritten
I am a software developer who also does UX and I love the simplicity of the tool.
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Aaron KazahWritten
This is pretty much what I use. I find I'd recommend it to any designer who wants to quickly create designs. It's also not bloated like sketch and is lightning fast.
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Dropbox Paper

Collaboration tool built for teams

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Jonathan SimcoeDesigner. Jesus lover. Family man. · Written
Dropbox Paper is a great space for collaborative documents that help inform the creative process.
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Webflow CMS

Build professional dynamic websites without any code

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Ayush Mittalbro @boombro, Founder RefR ✌ · Written
I use Sketch and Webflow. There is a little learning curve to get around the editor, however, I'm always doing more than I've planned, especially by making use of its powerful interactions.
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Anand SoniFreelance UX/UI Developer · Written
This tool is just fantastic...And its customer support is also damn high. It helped me creating complex HTML pages in less than 15 mins with all interaction and styling.
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Figma 1.0

The first interface design tool with real-time collaboration

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Jonathan SimcoeDesigner. Jesus lover. Family man. · Written
I implemented this tool @meetcircle and the team still uses it. I also use it to power all my personal digital design work for screens and web. Figma is the best interface design tool on the market, bar none. Components allow you to build living design systems on your own or with a team of people.
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Stefan TheofilosUI/UX Designer, Lucro Solutions · Written
I transferred my team over to Figma from Sketch and I love it!. The real-time collaboration is key.
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Niklaus GerberProduct Manager Apps @NZZ · Written
Awesome collaborative UI-Design-Tool
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HTML

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Jesse KorzanProduct Design · Written
Handy little tool for when I want to evaluate a design or decision in a real context, screen or device. Works across all fidelities. And it's free...
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Cloud App

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Niklaus GerberProduct Manager Apps @NZZ · Written
Use it all the time. Annotations, Screensharings etc.
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David TiongOwner, David Tiong Web Consultancy · Written
Quick and easy way to share design previews and proposed changes with clients, either with screenshots or quick gifs or videos
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Atomic.io 2.0

Ultra fast, scalable and fully collaborative prototyping

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Kunal BhatiaCo-founder & Design Lead @SlidesUp · Written
Despite not prototyping every day, I pull up the Atomic site every day to collaborate with devs, explain a product to users, and test prototypes of new features with research participants. After you build up a library of prototypes, you understand how powerful this practice can be, whether or not you use Atomic or some other prototyping tool.
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iA Writer

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Aaron NgProduct Design on Camera & AR @ Facebook · Written
iA Writer (and Google Docs for the final shared document). Perfect place for throwing ideas down and solidifying them. I use iA writer along with Sketch as the first part of any project and as the screens become more and more fleshed out start moving more and more of the notes into the Sketch file itself.
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Marvel 2.0

Super simple design, prototyping and collaboration

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Julien DeveauxDigital Product Designer & Entrepreneur · Written
A very simple tool to create interactive prototypes
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Scott StephensProduct Designer, The App Business · Written
I use Marvel for prototyping, it's lightweight and fast to use and can also be hooked up with Lookback that can record users when testing your prototypes.
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Lingo by Noun Project

Organize, share and use all your visual assets in one place

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AhmediOS/macOS Engineer. Founder of Flawless · Written
Lingo is really great for assets management. And it has cloud sync so you can distribute same design language across the team.
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Icon Font - Sketch Plugin

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David BaruchelCo-Founder, Bridges · Written
Add icons from Font Awesome, Material Design, and other icon fonts libraries directly in Sketch. Faster than any drag and drop from Noun-Project. And it behaves like a font, not SVG.
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Flinto for Mac

The prototyping tool designers have been waiting for

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Michael LeeProduct Designer @ Sunrun · Written
Along with Framer I use Flinto for Mac daily. Great tool to create comprehensive prototypes.
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Kevin BravoEtudiant Web Business - ESCEN · Written
Amazing product to build cool animations and transitions between screens
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