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I often see Internet practitioners on major websites asking: do product managers have any useful prototype tools to recommend? As a product manager with many years of experience, I have a full say in this issue. At present, Internet product prototyping tools are more common, such as Pixso, Axure, XD, sketch, ink knife, mock customer and other software, some of which focus on prototyping-such as Blue Lake, but also provide integrated production and research solutions-such as Pixso.

How on earth should we choose so many software? Listen to me analyze a wave carefully.

Pixso: an one-stop design solution platform from prototype to design to delivery

Suitable for the crowd: product Manager | UI designer | Development | team user

Advantages:

1. The whole process of the design project is solved in one platform, reducing the traditional communication steps.

2. Support multi-person real-time collaboration, which is suitable for team projects

3. The material library is rich, and it can build prototypes quickly.

Pixso has a very mature prototype design function, and products that do not delete the design can quickly build a low-fidelity prototype by editing the component library built into the page. At the same time, it provides a variety of interactive actions, and the dynamic effect can be demonstrated on the editing page, which can quickly sort out and show the product logic.

In addition to this, more importantly, Pixso is a collection of prototyping, design, collaboration, delivery and resource management software. It is a web-based software that allows multiple people to access the same document directly online. This is very convenient for the work after prototype design.

Collaborative work is the development trend of office software. compared with local software, this way of cooperation can greatly improve efficiency. All documents can be opened through links, on the one hand, to facilitate the storage of design manuscripts and work at any time, on the other hand, it can further promote collaboration.

For example:

After completing the prototype design, PM generates a link and sends it to the designer directly. After opening it, the designer can create a new page in the same file for high-fidelity design.

It is worth mentioning that Pixso is carried on the web side, on the one hand, it is very friendly to all types of devices, on the other hand, the performance requirements of computers are not so high, and it can run at full speed on ordinary notebooks.

02 ink knife: Super prototype design function

Suitable for the crowd: product manager | team user | R & D

Advantages:

1. Professional prototype tools

2. Focus on collaborative delivery

Unlike Pixso, an integrated design software, Ink Dao is even more outstanding in its prototype design function.

Ink knife has a large component library, which makes it convenient for product managers to draw simple prototypes quickly and start team communication more efficiently. At the same time, because it is an online tool, his collaboration ability is also slightly stronger than Axure, which is suitable for multi-post communication and reduces the inconvenience of information alignment.

03Figma: a mature platform for integration of design projects

Suitable for people: product manager | designer | R & D | overseas users

Advantages:

1. No need to download, online operation

2. Plug-ins are ecologically mature.

3. Perfect function

Compared to sketch's dedicated macOS users, figma supports Windows, macOS, and Linux platforms! Compared with the installation of Axure, figma opens web directly and is more portable.

Compared with the disadvantages of the well-known prototype software Axure, it can be well solved here in figma. Designers and products choose figma as the production tool, and the transfer from prototype to design through link transmission will be smoother than the other two software.

But figma is not without shortcomings, for example, he does not have an official Chinese version and can only install unstable plug-ins, which greatly reduces the sense of use for ordinary English speakers.

The above three softwares suitable for APP prototype design are only my comments. If you have any other comments, please feel free to leave a comment.

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