UX Cheat Sheet (Part 2)
UX tools
For those of you who are already have some knowledge of the UX field, I’ve got some tips. Tipsheet 2 will greatly help you with searching for UX tools that will help you on your projects. Enjoy!
A/B Testing
Accessibility Testing
Design Prototyping
- Adobe Brackets
- AnteType
- AppSketcher
- Axure
- Balsamiq Mockups
- Cogtool
- FileSquare
- Fireworks
- Indigo Studio
- iPlotz
- iRise
- Justinmind
- Keynote
- Lumzy
- Macaw
- MockFlow
- Naview
- Notism
- Patternry
- Pencil
- Pidoco
- Proto.io
- Protoshare
- Prototyp
- UXPin
Evaluating Design
- Accessibility Priority Tool
- Capian
- Concept Feedback
- Feng Gui
- Firefly
- Five Second Test
- Loop11
- Mental Notes Cards by Stephen P Anderson
- Navflow
- Quince
- Specfox
- UsabilityHub
- UsabilityTools
- Usabilla
- Userbrain
Evaluating Information Architecture
- BagelHint
- BoardThing
- ConceptCodify
- Loop11
- Naview
- OptimalSort
- Plainframe (now integrated with Optimal Workshop)
- SimpleCardSort
- Solidify
- TreeJack
- Usabilitest
- UsabilityHub
- Userzoom
- Websort (now integrated with Optimal Workshop)
- Xsort
Heatmaps, Mouse-tracking or Synthetic Eye-tracking
- Chalkmark
- ClickDensity
- Clicktale
- CrazyEgg
- Decibel Insight
- EyesDecide
- Eyetracking
- Feng Gui
- HeatData
- Hotjar
- Inspectlet
- LookTracker
- Loop11
- MouseStats
- Navilytics
- Optimal workshop
- Ptengine
- Speedzine
In-application annotation & user tutorials
Live Chat with Users
Mobile App Testing Tools
- Adobe Device Central
- Android SDK Emulator
- Blackberry Simulator
- DotMobi Emulator
- eggPlant
- Google Android Emulator
- iPad Peek
- iPhoney
- Magitest
- Modify Headers
- MonkeyTalk (previously FoneMonkey)
- Mr Tappy
- Opera Mobile Emulator
- POP App
- W3C mobileOK Checker
Presentations
Process Aids
Remote Research
- Ethnio
- Feedback Army
- Mechanical Turk
- Pick Fu
- Testapic (French)
- TryMyUI
- UsabilityHub
- UsabilityTools
- UsersThink
- UserTesting
Research Notetaking
Screen Capture
- Camtasia
- Ovo Studios
- Inspectlet
- Jing
- Magitest
- Open Hallway
- ScreenFlow
- Silverback
- Usability Test
- UsabilityTools
Sketching & Visual Thinking
- 53 Paper & Pencil
- Balsamiq Mockups
- Canva
- iSketchnote
- Livescribe
- Pen & Ink
- Penultimate
- RealtimeBoard
- VuPoint Magic Wand scanner
Surveying Users
- 4qSurvey
- Clicktools
- Feedback Lite
- Frelay
- Kampyle
- Polldaddy
- Qualaroo (previously Kiss Insights)
- SurveyGizmo
- Surveymonkey
- Survicate
- UsabilityHub
- UsabilityTools
- Uservoice
- Userzoom
- Webreep
- Wufoo
User Testing
- BagelHint
- FileSquare
- Forsee
- Intuition
- Lookback
- Loop11
- Magitest
- Morae
- Optimize
- Silverback
- Testaisso
- Testapic (French)
- TryMyUI
- UsabilityHub
- Usabilla
- UserBob
- Userfeel
- Userlytics
- UserTesting
- Userzoom
- uxline: spanish usability testing software
- Verify
- Webnographer
- WhatUsersDo
Web Analytics
- Adobe Marketing Cloud (previously Omniture)
- Clicktale
- FoxMetrics Web Analytics Tool
- Get Clicky
- Google Analytics
- Inspectlet
- Kiss Metrics
- LivePerson
- Loop11
- Lucky Orange
- Mix Panel
- Navilytics
- Piwik
- Quantcast
- Userzoom
- Woopra
Wireframing & Diagramming
- Axure
- Balsamiq Mockups
- Creately
- Devhand
- Draw.io
- Flair Builder
- Fluid UI
- Gliffy
- Handcraft
- Hotgloo
- InDesign(Adobe)
- Indigo Studio
- Invision
- Koolchart
- Lucidchart
- MockFlow
- Mockingbird
- Mockplus
- MOQUPS
- NinjaMock
- OmniGraffle
- Patternry
- Photoshop Wireframing Kit
- Pidoco
- Power Mockup
- Proto.io
- Protoshare
- Sketch 3
- Visio
- WireframeSketcher
- Wirify
It’s always a plus if you know coding languages. Whether you are using it or not, it showcases an ability to communicate with engineers. I didn’t list every possible graphic design toolkit, but if you have a particular tool you like to use, you can make some cool things happen. I’ve used Adobe Illustrator to prototype and my clients loved it.
Also check out:
Tipsheet 1: UX career paths and useful methods https://goo.gl/3mnwfw
Tipsheet 3 : What your UX portfolio should have https://goo.gl/Z0DgwF
