PLEASE THINK CAREFULLY IF YOU WANT TO USE THIS TAG! REQUESTS FOR TOOL RECOMMENDATIONS ARE OFF-TOPIC FOR STACK EXCHANGE SITES. Hardware or Software tools used by UX professionals to do their work. Also more generally software used by users to shape or modify something they are creating.
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Wireframing: App for turning pencil and paper wireframes into editable digital formats (or stencils) [closed]
I wireframe using pencil and paper, but like to share and show designs digitally. Wondering if there is a tablet app solution that could use a camera or scanner to take the pen and paper variant and ...
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I need simple , easy and cheap UI prototying and mock up tool for my company . Can any one suggest any good tool [closed]
I have tried
Invison
Concept.ly
but still not sure which one to use for my company ?
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Tool to define screen relationships diagrams? [closed]
Is there any tools, other than Visio, to create diagrams defining UI flows (how the different screens of a program or app relate to each other?).
Something like the diagrams shown here:
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What are the desktop based Tools for UI work available today? [duplicate]
What are the tools available to a UI developer? I know and use Photoshop, Fireworks, Balsamiq. I just recently came across Pixelmator and I'm checking it out. What else is out there? Thanks.
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Mock Up program for touch gestures [closed]
You have all heard of balsamiq and mockingbird as mock up programs. I want to take that quesion a bit farther, is there any program where I can build a mockup and add interacivity to it?
I know ...
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Free tool for capturing a dynamic action in the browser in the form of an image? [closed]
What free tool is available for capturing moving screen shots like the one below in the form of images? I found that Jing is a great free tool for taking screen shots and then annotating them but it ...
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What is the best way to record a user lab that includes multiple devices? [duplicate]
I have always used porgrammes such as Morae or Silverback to record user labs, but I'd like to test different breakpoints on a responsive site using actual devices. How do I record tests on tablets ...
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Prototype tool for large application? [closed]
A typical application like ERP, I always need keep look and feel of prototypes consistency every-time I release the prototype while requirements change all the time. Useful tools have these ...
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How can i annotate videos of usability sessions?
What is the best method to take notes from videos of a usability session?
Consider the scenario you recorded a usability test (remote or local) and want to do a review of the whole session by taking ...
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What kind of tool is this? What kind of image program? [closed]
What kind of program has been used to produce this mock-up image?
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Cameras for Paper Prototyping
I help manage a small usability lab. One of the things we're trying to is to record paper prototyping sessions - with a user sitting at a table and a camera directly overhead (from a height of about ...
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What methods do you use to rate user experience of a page? [closed]
I've been tasked with coming up with a way to quantify / asses the overall useability / user experience of our web application on a per-page basis.
What tools and methods do you use to achieve those ...
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Does somebody know an information architecture tool as great as balsamiq for creating mockups? [closed]
I would like create & display structures of websites without using tools such as visio. I search for smart tools which focus on web IA same like balsamiq is 100% focussed on web mockups / ...
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1answer
280 views
any software or online service to draw web page layout sketch? [closed]
any software or online service to draw web page layout sketch?
I want to construct a website , the first step is that I need to sketch a contents layout for every page . this job can be write done on ...
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1answer
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What is a good tool for mouse tracking? [closed]
I would like to be able to track user activity on an HTML page.
What I want to achieve is the following, a breakdown of user activity per page, and a total time spent on the entire flow.
The ...
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screen video capturing (usability test) on mobile
I'm trying to figure out how to conduct a usability test upon a handset device (smartphone).
it seems there aren't many methods for screen video capturing of a user making use of an app.
Do you know ...
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Are there any good high fidelity prototyping tools that do not require you to write code? [closed]
I currently create click-through mockups using Balsamiq for my usability testing. After the concepts and flow have been decided, I would like to do a high-fidelity prototype to show stakeholders the ...
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Axure Checkbox Interactions, 3 Cases: None Checked, 1 Checked, or 2+ Checked? [closed]
I have a list of checkboxes, and I would like to tie them to a dynamic panel in a specific way:
If no checkboxes are selected, display a Dynamic Panel's state 0.
If only one (any) checkbox is ...
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1answer
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Is there any vaild free or paid tool that help measuring the effectiveness and usability of products? [closed]
A university professor is seeking a tool that help measuring the effectiveness and usability of a certain product, mostly this product is targeting students and academical fields.
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Best “Cycle” for developing new products?
Given that everyone has their own "nitch" or style for developing new products/applications,
I was wondering if there is an ideal cycle that most ux professionals like to follow?
This could be ...
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1answer
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Prototyping tool for mobile/tablet [closed]
Is there any interactive prototyping tool for creating low to high fidelity for tablets and mobile where the tool generates html output.
I came across this tool(http://www.justinmind.com/) which ...
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Fireworks software for prototyping [closed]
How good is Adobe Fireworks in creating prototype mock-ups?
I know of other software like Axure and Balsamiq, they come with extra cost but Adobe Web Premium includes Fireworks.
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Wireframing hardware dashboards/control panels - best practice
For an upcoming customer project, I will be dealing with control center UI, including visualization on-screen software, but also hardware control panels and dashboards.
The project emphasizes on ...
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How do you convince your employer that sketching is important?
I'm a strong believer of sketching UIs before booting up a computer.
That said I haven't been lucky in the past where my employers thought otherwise.
It has happened to me on a couple of occasions, ...
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OmniGraffle Stencils Recourses [closed]
Does anybody use stencils for OmniGraffle for wireframe design?
Any good sources where could I find some?
I found
http://graffletopia.com
http://stenzils.com
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SharePoint 2010 : UX design considerations? [closed]
We are designing a portal with Share Point 2010 platform. Content is more informational oriented with hardly transactional tasks within it. I understand there are many views on SP UX but can someone ...
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What is the best way to organize all UI elements of a website in one place?
I'm looking for a good way to help us organize and keep track of the latest version of UI elements. The simple way I've found is to have one big file, maybe 10000 X 10000 pixels with all your UI on ...
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How to measure UI lag on computer?
Are there any tools available to help measure the UI lag of a given application running on a given computer?
There are plenty of guidelines out there as to how "fast" a UI ought to be, but how can I ...
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Tool for work between UI/UX Designers and developers to show animations [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can animations be depicted in wireframes effectively?
Are there any standard tools for work between designers and developers, especially for designer to explain flow ...
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Best wireframing user flow tools [closed]
What in the opinion of the community is the best Wire-framing tool out there. There are literally dozens of them so I wondering what the pro's use. I'm specifically looking form something that will ...
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Is there a tool for managing user stories? [closed]
Background on what User Stories are:
The UX of User Stories
part2
An ideal tool would:
Be online
Enable quick collecting of story titles
Enable to map/share/group the collected stories
Allow ...
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Have you used Patternry (or used/built another patern library management system)?
I need to create a proper pattern/component library for our organization. Ideally, it would include:
images (examples of the component)
attachments (wireframes)
description
title
notes/conversation ...
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What is the best user friendly for users scanning documents? [closed]
I am designing a product that has a feature for end users to scan/upload visual and text work. The quality needs to be good. The user demographic is not very tech savvy. Question is what is the best ...
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Creating beautiful User Interface Designs [closed]
I usually have a hard time designing a good UI for my applications/websites (especially the websites).
Are there any tricks to this? Are there good books that can help/guide me? Or libraries eg. ...
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How can we improve the internal wireframe review?
Our developer team uses Reviewboard for code, but the UX team doesn't have a good solution for mockup reviews. Currently we are using piles of emails in Outlook. I know Reviewboard should work, but I ...
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What are some tools / techniques to manages screenshots? [closed]
Whenever I need to design a new control, I search the web for similar patterns, and take screen shots of interesting interfaces.
I later use those screen shots for reference and brainstorming.
I'm ...
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Document-specific menu?
I'm making a kind of editor that have tool views (on sides of the main window) and documents being edited. In fact those documents are themselves "views" of a specific document, so you can have ...
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How reliable are heatmaps generated by cursor positions?
Heatmaps are one of the best tools we have to mesure the impact of a design, not just in UX terms but also in marketing/conversion terms.
I've found that most of the free or less-expensive solutions ...
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Are there any UI pattern sites with a bookmarklet / selective screen capture (think Skitch) tool?
For over a year now I've been trying to get into all of these UI pattern sites, but the fundamental flaw I've found across the board is the level of effort it takes to create/post styles you come ...
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Best resources to make great reusable UI elements (icons/buttons/etc)? [closed]
I'm new to "crafting UIs", but I've been doing User Experience / Interaction design for a while. Being unable to design my own graphics has been a serious handicap for my work as I'm dependent on ...
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Anyone used Balsamiq mockups for JIRA? [closed]
As both a Balsamiq and JIRA user I'm interested in this plugin.
Has anyone used it? Any idea if it allows you to save the .bmml files in a specific folder, hence allowing the use of project assets?
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Are there any survey tools that are optimized to render correctly on mobile devices? [closed]
My company would like to run a NPS survey off of our Mobile experience (app and website), are there any tools that will work well with mobile screens? We use Vovici, cvent and surveymonkey in house ...
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Is there an accepted standard for building views and UI elements in Blend that is easy to consume for developers? [closed]
I'm working with a team of developers who are just coming up to speed on Silverlight development. Their BAs completed some prototypes in Axure that I'm starting to work from, but ultimately I am going ...
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A service like Usabilityhub's Navflow but featuring branching?
For testing navigation flows of static screens/image mockups Usabilityhub's Navflow is a pretty nifty service/tool.
However, to my knowledge it only allows the test creator to specify one single path ...
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How do you version-control your wireframe/prototype assets?
How do you version-control your wireframe/prototype assets? I have largely been working with interactive HTML prototypes and as I go through iteration after iteration I find that my process of ...
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Open source / free screen capture tools for user testing [closed]
What free tools are there on the Windows platform that I can use to capture what mouse movements and clicks a user makes during an evaluation?
Ideal product would:
Not be likely to crash and freak ...
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Do online-feedback tools generate useful feedback?
We'd like to gather feedback from our users after the re-launch of our website. We do usability tests and interviews but I'd like to provide an easy way to give feedback for any user.
There are tons ...
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Usability testing software with Eye tracking tools
I took a course in Human Computer Interaction last semester, and I find it very interesting. I am working on a website project, and thought I would try some user involvement.
I was thinking about ...
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With straighten, do we really need rotate?
Related to Combining rotation and straightening of images.
Rotate: Grab a corner, drag it to its new location, rest of image follows.
Straighten: Either click-drag-drop a line on a horizon, or click ...
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Which software do you use to write your reports?
I've been writing reports for a long while using Microsoft Word. Now I'm getting really tired of it. I'm looking for something more "automatic" where I have to format my report only once, then ...
