What are the prototyping tools?

Answer 1

Now, designers are in a world with a lot of tools that can adapt to almost all design processes and meet your creative needs, it's a good time to explore new tools, choosing the right tool is the key to describing your thoughts and working better with your customers.

To choose the right prototyping tool for your design, there are some factors that need to be evaluated for that tool to check whether it fits our needs or not.

1. Learning curve

2. Sharing

3. Usage

4. Ease of use and comfort

5. Cost

Some programs that I found good and I can recommend are these:

Sketch

WebSketch is similar to Photoshop in many ways, allowing you to edit and manipulate photos. Sketch’s Vector shapes easily adapt to changing styles, sizes, and layouts, allowing you to avoid a lot of painful hand-tweaking. Sketch’s fully vector-based workflow makes it easy to create beautiful and high-quality artwork from start to finish.

Mockplus

Mockplus is a prototyping design software for faster, smarter, and easier prototypes supporting all platforms (Android/iOS/PC/Mac/Web). Mockplus interactive design is fully visualized - WYSIWYG. Simple drag-and-drop makes interactive prototypes effortlessly.

InVision Studio

Even in its initial version, this tool will help you create beautiful interactive interfaces with a lot of functions. You can create custom animations and transitions from a series of gestures and interactions.

It has simplified every aspect of our workflow and collaboration between design and development. One can design better, faster, and more collaboratively with real-time, and it's in-browser design collaboration and presentation tools.

Adobe Experience Design

With Adobe XD, you can draw, reuse, and remix vector and build artwork to create wireframes, screen layouts, interactive prototypes, and production-ready assets all in the same app. If you're an Adobe enthusiast and new to XD, you may not find the interface very similar to Adobe to get started: it's a leap if you've been designing in Photoshop for a while. But it stacks up to the other leading tools that exist, and it's worth it if you're a big Adobe fan.

Origami study

Origami Studio is created and used by designers on Facebook, you can assume that this should be a great tool. There are a lot of features with Origami, including adding rules and logic to your interactions.

This tool is perfect for developers and designers who work together.

there are undoubtedly many programs, you only have to choose one that adapts to your demands and characteristics…

Answer 2

There are lots of prototyping tools available:

1. InVision

Single project — Free

3 projects (starter) — $15/month

Unlimited Projects (Professional) — $25/month

2. Mockplus

Less than 10 projects — Free

Unlimited Projects (Professional) — $99/year

Team — $199 to purchase, per user

Enterprise (includes on-premise solutions) — $99/month

3. Sketch

Free trial

$99 for full version

4. Origami Studio

Free

5. Webflow

2 Unhosted projects — Free

Personal — $16/month

Pro — $35/month

6. Axure

30-day Trial — Free

Pro — $29/month ($495 to purchase)

Team — $49/month ($895 to purchase, per user)

Enterprise (includes on-premise solutions) — $99/month

7. Figma

Free Trial

Pro — $12/month

Team — $45/month

8. Justtinmind

$19/month

That’s some of the mainstream tools available on the market. Personally speaking, pricing is a major aspect that I will consider. So, I always compare its cost-effectiveness before buying anything.

P.S. Price might be subject to changes. So, you’d better check its related sites.