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If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen its tools, especially for UI designers who are at the forefront of the user experience, and must be very picky about their own tools. After all, only easy-to-use tools can give full play to their 100% strength. The following six design software, as a designer, if you do not know, then absolutely should not be missed.

1. Ink knife

Ink knife is an online prototyping and collaborative tool founded by Zhang Yuanyi. It was launched in October 2014, targeting users such as product managers, designers, R & D, operations and sales, entrepreneurs, and so on. If the original ink knife only provides product prototype design for the product manager, then the current ink knife is not only for the product manager, but also for the whole design team, and has become a design and development process covering the whole product. a team collaborative tool that helps the whole product team maximize synergy. The ink knife can also import Sketch files, carry out interactive design, obtain annotation information automatically, and promote the development process. The function of ink knife is becoming more and more powerful and easier to use.

2.Sketch

Sketch is a vector drawing application for all designers. Compared to Photoshop,Sketch, Sketch is more focused on UI design, so Sketch is more professional and easier to use than Photoshop in terms of UI design. It does not have as many rich and colorful functions as Photoshop, but for UI design, many functions are not the most important, the most important thing is functional practicality. Sketch did this. And compared with the bloated Photoshop,Sketch is very light, running very fast, and easy to operate, even beginners can quickly master.

3.Principle

Principle mac is one of the best interaction prototyping tools on the Mac platform. It combines the advantages of many kinds of software such as Sketch,After Effect,Keynote and Flash, and is very easy to use. It was developed by a former Apple engineer in 2015. Making interactive prototypes using Principle is a great experience because it is very easy to use, the interface is the same as Sketch, and the learning cost is very low. Although it is not as powerful as the older AE for special effects, it is enough to make interactive prototypes.

4.Photoshop

Photoshop is one of the most famous image processing software of Adobe. Its functions are image scanning, editing and modification, image production, advertising creativity, image input and output. Since its inception, Photoshop has been loved by the majority of graphic designers and computer art lovers. However, compared with graphics rendering, it is better at image processing. Most of the incredible pictures you see on the Internet are processed by it. However, if you use Photoshop to design the UI interface, there will be a feeling of killing chicken with a cow knife, which is not very practical.

5.CorelDRAW

As an old rival to Photoshop, CorelDRAW must have a name. It is a vector graph design software launched by a Canadian company. It integrates painting and illustration, text operation, drawing editing, desktop publishing and layout design, tracking, file conversion, and other high-quality output, and in industrial design, product packaging modeling design, Web page production, building construction and effect drawing and other design fields have been widely used. It is easier to use than AI and can be imported and exported in a variety of formats. However, if you use it for typesetting, I am afraid it will be very difficult.

6.Pixso

Pixso is a collaborative prototype design tool, which can be called the domestic version of Figma. It is a design platform that integrates prototyping, design, collaboration, delivery and resource management. It allows multiple members of the same team to edit the same document at the same time and save the design manuscript in real time without fear that the design manuscript will be lost as a result of software stutter flicker. Pixso provides flexible pen tools. Unlike Sketch, which can only add points or move individual points online, Pixso can move the lines of vectors, and all connected points can be followed automatically. There are automatic layout, intelligent selection, Boolean operation and other functions, which can effectively improve the design efficiency. Pixso team resource library, add individual design components, styles, etc., to the design resource library, and other team members can use it with one click; modified components and versions are automatically updated without manual adjustment. Of course, in addition to the team repository, Pixso also comes with an official repository with 2300 + icons, eliminating the need to import from external sites. The cost of getting started with pixso is very low, and its interface is similar to that of sketch. Users who have used sketch can start the design directly without learning, and Pixso supports the import of Sketch, SVG and other files, which is conducive to team migration. Most importantly, it can be tried for free. Is there any better news than that?

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