8 bespoke app recommendations for UX experience

UXPressia

by UXPressia

UXPressia is a collaborative customer experience platform that allows you to create, export, and share customer journey maps, personas, and impact maps online. Some of the platform’s features include maps and personas with a predefined, easy-to-customize structure (drag and drop sections, such as text, video, embed code, touchpoints, etc.). Multiple-persona journey maps. Design View (journey atlas) to specify relations between mapping initiatives. 120+ free templates for 10+ industries to use as a starting point. Text and audio comments, dot votes, and reactions. Storyboard library and image formatting. Default and custom tooltips. Color themes for journey maps. Team library for touchpoints, images, channels, etc. Link and email sharing. Presentation mode. Branding and high-quality exports (PNG, PDF, CSV, and PPTX). Teams will especially enjoy collaborative options and the possibility to standardize and scale their projects.

Pricing: $13.30 per month

Adobe XD

by Adobe

Share your story with designs that look and feel like the real thing. Wireframe, animate, prototype, collaborate, and more — it’s all right here, all in one UI/UX design tool. Fast, powerful, and just the right amount of everything. Turn your ideas into stunning reality, faster. XD is packed with tools to help you effortlessly design websites, apps, voice, and so much more. Find your flow and make moves. Get closer to real with features designed for captivating experiences at every skill level. We’ve curated the most powerful tools so you can do your best work. Layer in depth, rotate across planes, showcase your work in 3D — all in a click. Go beyond flat screen design and create stunning realness in seconds. Say goodbye to duplicative efforts — create it once and reuse it where you like, across design systems. Connect artboards, add animations, create micro-interactions, and run parallax effects with a single click.

Pricing: $9.99 per month

Hotjar

by Hotjar

Understand how users are really experiencing your site without drowning in numbers. Traditional web analytics tools help you analyze traffic data. But numbers alone can’t tell you what users really do on your site — Hotjar will. Track Customer Satisfaction (CSAT), Net Promoter Score (NPS®) & the Voice Of Customer (VOC). Eliminate guesswork by watching Session Recordings and see how people are really using your product. Empathize with your users and see where they get stuck. Look at user behavior and ask the right questions at the right time. Hotjar works out of the box on most popular platforms. Visualize behavior – Understand what users want, care about and do on your site by visually representing their clicks, taps and scrolling behavior – which are the strongest indicators of visitor motivation and desire. See what your users see – Eliminate guesswork with Recordings of real visitor behavior on your site.

Pricing: $99 per month

Figma

by Figma

Where teams design together. Figma helps teams create, test, and ship better designs from start to finish. Fast and powerful, just like your work. Packed with design features you already love plus unique inventions like the Arc tool and Vector Networks, Figma helps you keep the ideas flowing. No need to stop to install, save, or export. It’s what any good cloud software should be. Bring your ideas to life faster in animated prototypes that feel like the real thing. Get insights from users and test concepts earlier and more often. Share a link to your design files or prototypes, and get feedback in context. Or, jump into the same file with your teammates—no matter where y’all are in the world—and co-edit live. Create a scalable design system that’s accessible for your organization and easy for you to manage. When all designers are speaking the same language, everyone’s more empowered to do their best work.

Pricing: $12.00/month/user

Anima App

by Anima App

Anima is a continuous design-to-code platform that allows designers to create and build fully-responsive prototypes that look and act like the end product while using their own design tool (Figma, Adobe XD & Sketch). Anima eases the handoff process to developers by automatically converting designs into developer-friendly HTML, React and Vue code. Collaborate with your team, stakeholders, and clients. Share rich user experience and get a real feel for your product before it goes to production. You can download the plugin for Figma, Adobe XD, or Sketch and simply continue working on your own design tool. Sync your project to the Anima platform and collaborate with your product team to work in a continuous flow.

Pricing: $31 per user per month

UXPin

by UXPin

Speed up your product development process with revolutionary Merge technology. From UI designers to UI developers – create consistent interfaces using the same building blocks. Build prototypes that feel like the end product. Get creative with our design tool or start with hundreds of built-in UI elements. Integrate with Storybook , Git repo, or NPM package and use code components straight from your design system, app or website. Design with the exact same UI code components that devs build the product with. No coding skills required – just drag and drop the elements. Design inclusive products in line with WCAG standards. Test your prototypes with built-in features like Contrast Checker and Color Blindness Simulator. With States, Variables, Conditional Interactions and Auto Layout, your prototypes will perfectly mimic the end product experience, during usability testing.

Pricing: $19 per month

Pencil Project

by Evolus

Pencil is an open source user interface drafting tool that Evolus builds on Mozilla 's technologies . This tool helps analysts and application interface developers to quickly draw application interfaces to document communication with customers in the process of collecting requirements or as a basis for the team. application development. The Pencil tool building project is one of Evolus' efforts to give back to the community. It is for that reason that Pencil has been released as an open source tool (GPL license) so that anyone can have the opportunity to use and access its source code to adjust and upgrade. . Pencil can be deployed as an add-on to the Mozilla Firefox 3 browser or as a standalone application. Pencil is a cross-platform application and can work well on any platform that Mozilla Firefox 3 supports.

Pricing: Free

UserTesting

by UserTesting

See, hear and talk to your customers as they engage with your products, apps and messaging. Make better decisions. Build more customer-centric experiences.

Pricing: Free Trial available.