Screen Design Tools that you may Use

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Screen Design Tools that you may Use
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• The design industry is currently experiencing a
  major shift when it comes to designing user
  interfaces for clients. For years, everyone has
  been using Photoshop and Illustrator when
  creating designs. Its a standard workflow that
  were still using up to this day. But with the
  constant changes in mobile computing and the
  different design specifications required for the
  growing list of devices, the industry needs a
  more specialized tool for the job.

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• There are 3 major software companies that are
  currently offering their own application designed
  for creating UI/UX and weve used all of them.
  All 3 are blazingly fast due to a more focused
  toolset and less feature bloat present on current
  design tools. They also have their own unique
  feature set that separates them from the rest of
  the applications on this list.

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Sketch
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• Sketch has been around for quite some time now
  and Its one of the first and most popular design
  tools available. Its a vector program that lets
  you design for almost every major device
  available. Its latest update now also allows you
  to create interactive prototypes right inside the
  app without any plugins.

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• One of the powerful features of sketch not
  currently available on any app is its plugin
  system. It allows users to extend its
  functionality through the use of open source 3rd
  party plugins. This allows sketch to have new
  features not available on the default
  installation.
• The only drawback of the app is its only
  available exclusively for the mac and there are
  no plans to release it on the windows platform.

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Adobe XD
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• Adobe also released their own screen design
  focused app that will replace Photoshop and
  Illustrator when designing user interface and
  experiences. Dubbed as Project Comet when it was
  first announced, It is now getting widespread
  attention due to some amazing features that will
  change how designers and developers work together.

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• One of this features is you can directly publish
  your work from XD to Adobes Creative Cloud
  servers. Once published, you can then generate a
  public link that you can share with your
  teammates or clients with built in feedback
  system. Another unique feature of XD is its
  ability to generate style guides that developers
  can use once the design is converted into code.
• XDs main advantage over its competitors is its
  availability on both Mac and Windows platform.
  And since its developed by Adobe, you can
  directly import your old Photoshop and
  Illustrator designs directly inside XD and
  continue where you left off. Neat!

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InVision Studio
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• InVision started off as a project management
  platform for designers. Their platform is
  currently being used by big names in the industry
  like Netflix, Twitter, and Airbnb just to name a
  few. They are now creating their own screen
  design app called InVision Studio. The app is not
  released yet and is only available via VIP
  invites. Fortunately, we got exclusive access and
  weve been testing it for some time now on some
  of our design projects and Its amazing.

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• Most of its basic features are similar to Sketch
  and Adobe XD. Its quite surprising because the
  workflow is very similar with those two apps. We
  think Invision gathered all of the best features
  from Sketch and XD (which is a good thing),
  improved upon it (by adding additional features),
  and then added it to Invision Studio. Each of
  Studios features is like twice as good compared
  to Sketch and XD.
• One of the apps main highlight is its
  integration to Invisions platform. It unlocks a
  whole bunch of new features that can help you
  manage your design projects with ease. You can
  still use the app normally without any Invision
  account though, so thats a good thing.

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Our Pick
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• All 3 apps listed here are great and they all
  offer the same basic functionality when it comes
  to designing interfaces both for desktop and
  mobile. They also have their own unique features
  that separates them from other design tools
  available in the market today. After testing
  every single one of them, we ultimately settled
  down to one app that we will be using as our
  daily driver in every design project and that
  will be Adobe XD.

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• The main reason for this is well, Its Adobe. We
  cover a lot of disciplines when it comes to
  design and weve been using Adobes ecosystem in
  all of our projects. Compatibility is very
  important to us and knowing that projects we did
  in Photoshop or Illustrator will still work on XD
  is a big plus. We also discovered that XD can
  open Sketch files too which is amazing.

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• Another reason is its cross platform. We can
  continue our work whether we are on Mac or
  Windows. Since our team is a mixture of both Mac
  and Windows users, we dont have to worry about
  design collaborations anymore. We are confident
  that every version of the file will work on any
  platform as long as XD is installed.

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• As stated earlier in this article, all 3 apps
  were amazing in its own right. Weve studied
  every single features of these apps and tried to
  use it in different real world scenarios. In the
  end, flexibility and compatibility are still the
  main features we always try to look out for
  (specially when trying to migrate to a new app)
  and Adobe XD both have it.

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