Top 20 Everyday Tools For UX Designers

1.Usability Tools

 Was created by User Experience Designers fed up with web testing apps providing partial solutions. This one of the most widely used UX design tools that have gained immense popularity among designers and marketers due to its powerful features. This tool helps to analyze a web page from the perspective of a user. This is a huge advantage for a designer as he gets to know where he needs to make changes to increase conversion or which elements need to be repositioned to be able to facilitate certain actions. Usability Tools allows you to get direct feedback from people who are actually using the product.

2.MouseStats

MouseStats is hosted web service for website designers and startups to provides professional website heatmaps and visitor activity analysis by tracking visitors' mouse moves, clicks, and scorlls to increase conversion rates and maximize ROI.

3.Attensee

It measures where people pay attention. It mimics eye-tracking but does so without any extra hardware or invasive special equipment. The Attensee interface is as natural as using any web-browser. People use the mouse pointer to bring one part of the screen into clarity, and it updates in real time as they change their area of focus. Users naturally decide what to look at and where to look next and the web based software simulates focal and peripheral vision as they do. With it, you can measure people's engagement with the page content. Rich data is produced that allowing you to understand what draws and holds people's attention in the online world in a way that is scalable, cost effective, and reliable.

4.Appsee

It was founded in 2012 and based in Tel Aviv. Appsee is being used by hundreds of companies that leverage our SaaS plarform to optimize their mobile apps. Their customers include companies from a wide range of industries such as travel, news, gaming and real estate.

5.UserVoice

It creates simple customer engagement tools that help companies understand and interact with their customers more positively and build customer relationships that last. With more than 90,000 organizations signed up and thousands of customers, UserVoice products include:

UserVoice Feedback - a hosted tool for gathering and prioritizing product ideas directly from a company's customers.
UserVoice Helpdesk - a simple-to-use ticketing system that helps companies solve more customer issues in less time.
UserVoice Full Service - a complete customer service solution that bundles Feedback and Helpdesk into a single, easy-to-manage environment.

6.Ehn.io

It  is an research recruiting tool for intercepting people that use your interface from your web site or app, and then conducting some kind of research with them - moderated or automated - and scheduling them or paying them incentives automatically if you'd like. You can also email or tweet or post a link to an ethnio screener, but most people place our JavaScript on their site. Ethnio is not a recruiting agency or research consulting firm.

7.Polldaddy

It is a service that provides polling widgets for blogs, websites, and social networks. PollDaddy has recently entered a partnership with Piczo to provide poll services to their 30 million users. Piczo users now have our entire poll making facilities built right into their Piczo profile editor. Apart from basic polls, PollDaddy aims to provide a fuller suite of data-collecting widgets. PollDaddy distributes a new online survey tool and a more generic form generator that is capable of making contact forms. 

8.Solidify

It is an online platform that enables users to build prototype interface screens with sketches, wireframes, and mockups. Users can validate users flows on any device by performing user tests in person, remotely or on their testers own time to get feedback.

Solidify is made by ZURB, a product design company located in Campbell, California. It  put over 10 years of experience building web products, services & websites into this product.

9.POP

It transforms sketches into click-through prototypes in minutes.

Design wireframes on paper. Pen & paper are the best tools. Import your sketches by taking a picture. Create a storyboard by linking your sketches together with "link spots". Press play and simulate your user interface to make sure everything flows correctly.

Share your prototype with colleagues and friends. They can try out your prototype in any device. You’d be surprised how valuable their feedback can be.

10.UXPin

It is a product design platform that allows product and design teams to easily design, collaborate on, and present both high- and low-fidelity, fully-interactive wireframes and prototypesSay goodbye to old-school wireframing and prototyping tools that only do one step of the product design process and don't allow you to use your existing design work, whether it was produced in Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch or elsewhere. UXPin let's you take products from concept to beautiful, pixel-perfect prototypes without any compromise.

11.Proto.io

It is a silly-fast way to create fully interactive mobile app prototypes. Launched in 2011 and designed specifically for mobile, Proto.io can simulate everything an app can do. That includes interactive touch gestures, screen transitions and animations. It is perhaps the only mobile prototyping tool that allows users to create realistic, sharable prototypes that work as a real app should and experience their prototype on the actual device. It is 100% web-based and offers a familiar and intuitive drag-and-drop User Interface, with no coding required.

12.PowerMockup

It is an add-on for Microsoft PowerPoint with hundreds of templates for user interface controls and icons. Creating a wireframe with PowerMockup is easy; simply select the controls you need from the library pane and drop them onto your PowerPoint slide.

13.Balsamiq

Founded in March 2008, Balsamiq Studios aims to make the world a better place by helping people create software that is easier to use. Balsamiq is a wireframing and mockup tool that allows users to sketch and share user interface mockups for web, desktop and mobile apps.

It is a small group of passionate individuals who believe work should be fun and that life is too short for bad software.

14.Pidoco

The pidoco usability software helps you develop better web and other software applications. Improve the usability of your applications using early user tests and utilize the potential of an excellent user experience to get your customers excited and drive up your revenues. Lower project risks, time to market, and coordination and development costs using real-time collaborative rapid prototyping.

15.Memosort

Distance will no longer be a barrier thanks to Memosort. This amazing tool helps you connect with you team and collaborate in real time. It comes with ‘Virtual Labels’ and ‘Post-Its’ and that means, when the work is done, you have the peace of mind that the workplace is not littered with Sticky Notes. Since everything gets auto-saved in Memosort, you can focus on brainstorming.

16.InVision

It is an interesting mix of a collaboration and prototyping tool. With it, you will be able to create interactive and interesting prototypes. Real time collaboration is also possible with Invision. All you need to do is to send a link of the design to other members of the team and they will be able to work on it.

17.Mural.ly

It is a platform allowing its users to aggregate web content and display them in a bulletin board-like customizable space.Mural.ly is a Buenos Aires, Argentina-based innovative platform to create murals of content. Available for free, the platform allows users to aggregate links and other web content (including images, embedded video, links, and social media content) and displays them in a customizable space that resembles a physical bulletin board or wall. It also serves as a social network for ideators who can co-create murals and learn more about each other's personal interests or business ideas.

18.Prevue

It is a simple tool that enables design agencies and freelance designers to upload their work, and share it with their clients. It’s core purpose is to take the pain out of presenting designs, and facilitates quick and painless feedback. It's what your clients need: no logins, technical knowledge or fancy modern browsers required.

Simple and elegant both in functionality and design, Prevue comes with the core features agencies want — like team sharing, security and custom branding.

19.Cage

Cage is an online collaboration tool that provides a secure environment for creative teams in web, mobile, print, video, design, 3D and motion graphics to easily present their work for feedback and approval. It also provides clients a simple, intuitive venue for offering direction in real-time on an actual creative asset.

It is currently being used by designers at: Omnicom, HGTV, DIY Network, Google, BBDO, Twitter, Facebook, Saatchi & Saatchi, Target, IGN, Living Social, The Verge, IDEO, AT&T, Virgin Media, Moleskin, Marvel, Electronic Arts, Walmart, Intermedia Outdoors, Ogilvy and Weber Shandwick.

20.StoryboardThat

Communication is a critical part of most knowledge workers' jobs. By creating a fun tool to improve how people communicate, it strive to do the world a service and make it a better place.It truly believe that by making it easier for people to describe ideas, user flows, basic processes, and anything else they want, people will be more willing to spend the time to do it. By making the descriptions (Storyboards) so easy to consume, people will want to share them and iterate over ideas. As this increases innovation, it makes everyone happier and more productive.
Storyboard that leverages the power of storytelling in the work place with visual communication by providing a fast and fun web based tool.

So, these are some UX design tools that are helping web designers to build a better web.