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Keynote

Keynote

Easily create gorgeous presentations with the all-new Keynote, featuring powerful yet easy-to-use tools and dazzling effects that will make you a very hard act to follow. The Theme Chooser lets you skim through an impressive collection of 30 new and updated Apple-designed themes. Once you’ve...

Categories: Designing Animations Rapid Prototyping Wireframing
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Skitch

Skitch

Make it perfect with Skitch. Skitch lets you communicate your feedback and important ideas in an instant. Use Skitch to mark up a PDF, snap your screen, annotate a photo, or draw something new. Share your thoughts with friends or co-workers. Annotate images and PDFs with arrows, stamps, text,...

Categories: Design Productivity Rapid Prototyping
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OmniGraffle

OmniGraffle

The completely redesigned OmniGraffle 6 comes with a bevy of new features, like integrated Inspector & Stencil windows full of improved tools and upgraded steppers, a brand new Resource Browser to manage stencils and templates, and text & shape scaling. When you’re working with...

Categories: Web Design Rapid Prototyping Wireframing Interaction Design
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Pen and Paper

Pen and Paper

Hello, reader! If you don't own a notebook and a nice pen, please do yourself a favor and stop reading this and go out and buy one. Force yourself to use it. Then fall in love with how much easier it is to vet and articulate your design ideas. We can wait... "Inspiration is...

Categories: 3D Designing Animations Design Inspiration Design Productivity Graphic Design Interaction Design iOS Design Rapid Prototyping UI Design Web Design Wireframing
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Balsamiq Mockups

Balsamiq Mockups

The first impression might be disorienting. There are very few interface elements on the screen. Start exploring however, and you'll find out that Mockups is filled with powerful yet only-visible-when-you-need-them features. Getting your ideas out should be effortless. We sweat the details so...

Categories: Rapid Prototyping Wireframing Interaction Design
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InVision

InVision

Where product design meets user experience design... and falls in love. Whether you need to quickly share a single mockup or demo a complex mobile app, InVision gives you the tools to show off your designs like never before. RAPID PROTOTYPING THAT TAKES YOUR DESIGN CONVERSATION TO A NEW...

Categories: Interaction Design Rapid Prototyping
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Axure

Axure

Axure RP gives you the wireframing, prototyping and specification tools needed to make informed design choices, persuade any skeptics, get your design built to spec... and maybe win a few fans along the way. Sketch & Design Quickly create wire-frames that evolve from sketch to...

Categories: Rapid Prototyping Wireframing Web Design
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Flinto

Flinto

Quickly Create iOS Prototypes Flinto strikes the perfect balance between fast prototyping and realism. Prototypes run on iPhone or iPad and can be shared with anyone. The Flinto Editor Build your prototype by linking screens and setting transitions. We’ve gone above and beyond to make it...

Categories: Rapid Prototyping iOS Design UI Design Interaction Design
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LICEcap

LICEcap

LICEcap can capture an area of your desktop and save it directly to .GIF (for viewing in web browsers, etc) or .LCF (see below). LICEcap is an intuitive but flexible application (for Windows and now OSX), that is designed to be lightweight and function with high performance. In addition...

Categories: Rapid Prototyping
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POP - Prototyping on Paper

POP - Prototyping on Paper

Have an app idea? Draw it on paper and use POP to make it running on your phone! The workflow is ridiculously simple: 1. Design on Paper 2. Take Pictures 3. Link & Play - Complicated wireframing tools slow us down. Why not use the most efficient tools, pen & paper, to create...

Categories: Rapid Prototyping Wireframing Interaction Design
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UserTesting

UserTesting

The fastest way to get feedback Get videos of real people speaking their thoughts as they use your website or mobile app. Step 1: Pick your target audience With access to a panel of over a million users, its easy to specify your target audience. Step 2: Decide what to test You can test...

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