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What front-end developers need to know about UI Design Tools

Vladimir Berezovsky on December 24, 2019

Hey there 👋 Thanks for checking my first dev.to article. My name is Vova and I'm a self-taught front-end engineer. I started learning front-end t...
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Derek D

I'd never heard of it before we recently hired a UX designer at my current job (and I was a designer before being a developer! 🤣), but Axure is another big one and is kinda the big brother to all the prototyping features all the others are adding lately.

Personally, I really like XD. It's the easiest one to use, though admittedly not as feature-rich as others.

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Scott Simontis

Congrats on the post! Even as someone who sees himself as more of a backend dev, I have wanted to learn the basics of some of these apps so I can share ideas more elegantly than the sketches I make on paper. I'd also love to learn some crude vector illustration to make my own logos, but there's so much else I want to learn!

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Nick Taylor

Congrats on your first post!

1st place in Mariokart

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Omar Elbaga

This is great! Thank you for sharing this. I keep hearing of figma. I gotta check that out

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Lisa Dziuba

Congrats on your first guide!

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Rajab512

Very well put together .
Huge congrats on ur very first beautiful article at dev.to community
Definitely it would help me to start and try these.

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izharalvi176@gmail.com • Edited

I am front end developer working last 7 years. Tools for UI designer HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

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Mateusz Iwaniuk

Great article!
I think you could also mention,, gravit designer". I'm using Linux Ubuntu, where figma for desktop is not supported, so I moved to gravit and I can rely on it 😉

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reem hosny

Congrats on your first post.
It's very helpful, keep the good work.