Learn Design Tools

There are a few common design tools that every UX designer should know about. As a designer, you must choose appropriate tools based on the project requirements. Please don’t restrict yourself to one product. Some projects may require prototyping, wireframing, collaboration, or UI tools while others may require pencil and paper.

Here’s a list of popular UX tools:

1. Sketch
2. Photoshop
3. Illustrator
4. Invision
5. Principle
6. Framer
7. UXPin
8. Balsamiq
9. Marvel
10. User Testing
11. After Effects
12. Optimizely
13. Axure
14. Adobe XD
15. Zeplin
16. Brand.AI
17. Abstract
18. Jira
19. Trello
20. Pencil and Paper

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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

- Abraham Lincoln

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Here’s a few links of recommended tutorials to learn the top design tools.

Sketch

1. SketchTricks

2. Hey Designer

3. Sketch App TV

4. Sketch Together

5. Design+Code

6. Sketch Collection on Medium

7. Sketch’s Official Facebook Group

8. Sketch App Resources Tutorial

9. Sketch 3 from A to Z by Joseph
Angelo Todaro

10. Mobile App Design In Sketch 3 by
Rob Percival

Photoshop

1. Learn Photoshop, Web Design &
Profitable Freelancing 2017 by Cristian
Doru Barin

2. Photoshop Beginners Mastery: Zero
to Hero in Photoshop by Chad Neuman,
Ph.D.

3. Photoshop Website Design Tutorial
4. Learn the Basics of Photoshop: The

Complete Guide
5. Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

Illustrator

1. 100 amazing Adobe Illustrator
tutorials

2. Learn to Draw Anything with Adobe
Illustrator CC

3. Envato Tuts Illustrator Tutorials
4. Logo Design Masterclass by Chad

Neuman, Ph.D.

5. Adobe Illustrator CC Tutorial by
Infinite Skills

6. Adobe Illustrator: Mastering the
Fundamentals by School of Game
Design
7. Illustrator Tutorial: Flat Design Avatar
or Icon Making Tutorial

8. Create Flat Grayscale Cityscape with
Illustrator