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Top Mobile App Design Tools in 2021

Mobile app design is a crucial phase during development and a mobile app’s UI can make or break the application. A mobile app developer has a powerful and direct impact on your user engagement, conversion rates, and consequently revenues.

There are many mobile app design tools that help you sketch your mobile app wireframes, create prototypes, and bring them to life.

1. Sketch

The sketch is a vector-based design tool with a focus on-screen design. And, Sketch’s plethora of easy-to-use yet extremely powerful tools allows both beginner and professional designers to focus on what they do best: design.

Mobile app developers and designers use Sketch to create user interfaces for different mobile devices. Furthermore, Sketch was created with digital designers in mind and it shows how the tools are made to fit all of their needs.

2. InVision

InVision is undoubtedly one of the most powerful mobile app design tools in the world. It allows you to quickly turn ideas into powerful screen designs with intuitive vector-based drawing and flexible layers.

Moreover, it also gives you the ability to seamlessly navigate the entire design process in one place, keeping everyone fully engaged and aware of all updates.

3. UXPin

UXPin is a product design platform that allows product and design teams to easily design, collaborate on, and present fully-interactive wireframes and prototypes.

You can collaborate and share your work with anyone involved in the product, the design team, developers, or clients, and even run live usability tests with end-users.

4. Figma

Figma is the world’s first collaborative interface design tool. Besides, it allows you to design and prototype your digital experiences, together, in real-time and in one place; helping you to turn your ideas into products, faster.

This app has the tools you need to get your work done. Furthermore, it allows you to create design systems with linked UI components the whole team can use, reduce the friction of turning visual concepts into code, and gives you the flexibility and controls you need to scale Figma for your team.

5. Origami Studio

Origami Studio is a free design tool that allows mobile app designers to rapidly build and share interactive interfaces. And, this app was primarily created and is still used to design and build Facebook’s products and mobile apps including Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram.

6. Framer

A framer is one of the most advanced interactive design tools on the market, and yet intuitively easy all at once. You can just drag and drop in fully functional components from the Framer X Store, their interactive design marketplace.

7. Fluid UI

Fluid UI lets you create visually stunning prototypes in minutes. Furthermore, you can create interactive mobile app prototypes with taps, swipes, clicks and more gestures using their simple linking system.

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