What are the Best Tools for Mobile App Designers?

Nowadays, Mobile App Development Companies are investing a lot of money in developing user-friendly mobile designers. Developing a mobile App requires the right tool that will make the designs valuable for the user experience. Some of the elements of designing process include:

• Brainstorm and analyze data
• Planning
• Building prototypes
• Interacting with a developer
• Creating animations
• Sharing information with your designer team
• Wireframing

Best Mobile App Designers tools

Marvel  : Marvel is mostly used for prototyping as it’s easy for you to synchronize your designs from other designer's tools such as Sketch or Photoshop, BuildFire, Axure RP, etc.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Marvel 

Advantages of Marvel

• Easier to work on it
• Provides user-friendly interface
• Offers plugins for Photoshop and Sketch
• Cloud-based wireframing and prototyping

Disadvantages of Marvel

• Costly
• It doesn’t provide access for offline mode
• You can’t animate mockup screens

Sketch  : The sketch is exactly similar to Adobe Photoshop but it's a lightweight MacBook based on UI/UX designing tool for app prototyping. 

Advantages and Disadvantages of Sketch 

Advantages of Sketch

• Offers the essential web designer tool
• You can design elements and reuse them
• Collaboration platform
• Built-in grids
• Device mirroring
• No font rendering woes
• Multiple artboards

Disadvantages of Sketch 

• Can slow down your machine
• Not much user friendly
• You can’t create permanent color palettes

InVision 

An InVision is also an amazing tool for prototyping that allows you to upload your design files and manage your workflows with effective collaboration. It helps you guide and add gestures, transitions, and animations to turn your fixed prototypes into clickable prototypes.

Advantages and Disadvantages of InVision 

Advantages of InVision

Disadvantages of InVision

• Slow speed 
• Not enough for wireframing
• Sometimes complicated and requires a learning curve
• Costly and allows limited actions
• More good for adding interactively to designs than designing

Photoshop 

Photoshop is one of the best tools for mobile app designers. It includes editing, cutting, and pasting pictures. The main features of Photoshop are layering, texturing, lighting, blurring, and many more.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Photoshop 

Advantages of Photoshop

Disadvantages of Photoshop

• Photoshop is expensive
• The toolbar is less detailed
• High-quality graphics are difficult to render
• Less supported for vector graphics
• The program consumes a lot of space

Axure RP

Axure RP is an easy to use tool made for professional designers. It allows you to design mockups, wireframes, personas, idea boards, flowcharts, UI design, graphic designing, and many more.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Axure RP

Advantages of Axure RP

• Create highly interactive deliverables
• Rapid prototyping
• Provides fidelity and collaboration
• Quickly test ideas 
• Provides a lot of options to users

Disadvantages of Axure RP

• The learning curve can be steep for some
• Some of the interfaces are clunky
• Axure RP is very expensive
• Code generation is adequate for prototyping  

Adobe Experience Design (XD)

Adobe XD App designers can use this tool for both prototyping and wireframing. It is easy to use and fast but it supports only Windows 10. 

Advantages and Disadvantages of Adobe Experience Design (XD)

Advantages of Adobe XD

• Provides a clean interface
• Saves time and energy
• Supports UX design
• Works best on PCs and let you design for PCs
• You can fill the UI by dragging and dropping the content
• You don’t have to pay for another software like a sketch

Disadvantages of Adobe XD

These are the few advantages and disadvantages of different tools for Mobile App Designers. Currently, we have limitless opportunities for creating a perfect UI/UX designing. No matter what tools designers choose to develop a mobile App there are still pros and cons of each tool to be considered.

Phontinent Technologies provides you the best UI/UX Designing Services by using various app designer tools that will help you to build a mobile App for your company in three simple steps: choose an App template, design, and develop your App.