UX Tools

A curated collection of UX tools covering research, wireframing, prototyping, testing, and collaboration. Explore tools used by UX designers to design, validate, and improve digital products and user experiences.

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UX Research

Flows, Charts & Diagrams

Wireframing

Prototyping

UX Collaboration & Workshops

User Testing & Feedback

UX Copy & Dummy Content

User Images, Faces & Avatars

UX Research Tools

All-in-one platforms and tools for user research used to manage interview notes, analyze surveys, create personas, and synthesize data across different stages of the UX process.

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Notably

All-in-one research platform to collect, analyze, and share customer research.

Freemium

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UXtweak

A UX research platform for improving usability of your digital products, from prototypes to production.

Freemium

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UserBit

Understand user needs, manage interview notes, synthesize data, create personas, visual sitemaps and more.

Freemium

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Dovetail

Intuitive, collaborative, and searchable research repository.

Paid

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Useberry

User testing feedback & rich insights in minutes.

Paid

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Optimal

User research and insights platform.

Paid

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UX Pilot

An AI-UX Assistant with all UX tools you need in one place.

Free

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UX Check

A Chrome extension that helps you identify usability issues.

Free

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Toaster

Analytics for Figma prototypes.

Free

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Stratify

AI-powered user research on autopilot.

Beta

For deeper context on UX research methods and user behavior, see UI/UX design fundamentals and principles and UX design, user behavior, and psychology books.

Flows, Charts & Diagrams

Software and tools for creating user flows, journey maps, diagrams, and visual structures used to map experiences and define product logic and information architecture.

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Whimsical

Super simple tool to create wireframes, flowcharts, sticky notes and mindmaps and then collaborate on them.

Freemium

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Overflow

Turn your designs into playable user flow diagrams that tell a story.

Paid

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Draw.io

Free online diagram software for making flowcharts, process diagrams, org charts and network diagrams.

Free

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Zen Flowchart

The simplest flowchart maker.

Freemium

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Octopus.do

Lightning-fast visual sitemap builder.

Freemium

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VisualSitemaps

Autogenerate Visual Sitemaps in Seconds.

Freemium

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Graphy

Create pro-level graphs.

Freemium

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Mapify

Quickly transform overwhelming content into simple, clear mind maps with AI.

Paid

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FlowMapp

Website planning in the most visual way.

Freemium

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Eraser

AI co-pilot ‍for technical design documents and diagrams.

Freemium

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Mind Map Wizard

Generate a mind maps with AI.

Free

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Mermaid

Faster, smarter diagramming for teams — with markdown-style code and AI.

Freemium

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Napkin

Turns your text into visuals so sharing your ideas is quick and effective.

Freemium

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MyLens

Transform any content into interactive AI visuals.

Freemium

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Bhava

Create and edit diagrams with AI in seconds.

Freemium

Wireframing Tools

Tools used to create wireframes at different levels of fidelity for exploring layouts, information architecture, and early interaction concepts.

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Balsamiq

Easily create low fidelity wireframes and collaborate on them.

Paid

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Axure

Plan, wireframe, prototype, and hand off to developers, all without code.

Paid

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MockFlow

End to end solution for product design.

Freemium

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Sketchize

Device or browser templates to print out and sketch the good old analog way.

Free

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Uicard

Pocket friendly wireframing ruler.

Paid

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Wireframe.cc

A minimal design tool fine tuned for wireframing.

Freemium

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Printables

Free printable templates for your sketching.

Free

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Claritee

Powerful wireframing for your visual requirements.

Freemium

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Mockup

Sketch out your UI/UX projects without paper.

Paid

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Wireframe Examples

Find all the wireframe examples you need as inspiration for your next project.

Free

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Frame0

Make hand-drawn style wireframes quickly and easily.

Freemium

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Arkhet

Redefining AI prototyping with visual prompting, where your wireframe is the prompt.

Paid

Prototyping Tools

All-in-one platforms and tools to build high fidelity prototypes, simulate user interactions, and share design concepts for testing and feedback.

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Marvel

All-in-one platform to wireframe, prototype and design digital products.

Freemium

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Principle

Animate your designs and build high fidelity interactive prototypes and user flows.

Paid

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Proto.io

Create advanced high fidelity interactive prototypes without coding.

Paid

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ProtoPie

Intuitive tool to prototype and perfect ideas.

Freemium

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Justinmind

All-in-one UI and UX design platform to create UI assets, prototypes and simulations.

Freemium

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Origami Studio

Prototyping tool by designers at Facebook to explore, iterate, and test your ideas.

Free

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Mockplus

Best online platform for design teams to prototype, design, collaborate and handoff.

Freemium

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UXPin

Design, prototype, collaborate all in one place.

Paid

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Flinto

Create interactive and animated prototypes of your app designs.

Paid

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Drama

Prototyping, animation & design tool. All-in-one.

Paid

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Moqups

Create and collaborate in real-time on wireframes, mockups, diagrams and prototypes.

Paid

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Quant UX

Prototype, test and learn.

Free

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Aaply

A tool to wireframe mobile apps and create a human-centered product experience.

Beta

Looking beyond UX-specific tools? Browse a wider selection of design and prototyping tools used across UI and product design workflows.

UX Collaboration & Workshop Tools

Shared whiteboards and visual workspaces used in UX workshops and collaborative sessions to brainstorm ideas, synthesize research, and align teams.

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FigJam

Collaborative whiteboard for UX workshops, ideation, flows, and journey mapping.

Freemium

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Miro

Visual collaboration platform used for UX discovery, research synthesis, and workshops.

Freemium

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Mural

Digital whiteboard built for structured UX workshops and facilitation.

Freemium

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Canva Whiteboards

Lightweight whiteboard for brainstorming and early UX ideation.

Free + Paid

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Milanote

Visual workspace for organizing ideas, insights, and workshop outputs.

Freemium

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Obsidian Canvas

Visual canvas for mapping ideas and synthesizing research insights.

Free + Paid

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Fabrie

Collaborative whiteboard with AI support for UX ideation and concept exploration.

Freemium

These tools focus on collaborative UX workshops and visual thinking. For broader team organization and day-to-day collaboration, explore productivity tools.

User Testing & Feedback Tools

Services and platforms that help teams run usability tests, gather user feedback, and evaluate design decisions throughout the UX process.

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Maze

User testing platform that turns your prototype into actionable insights from real users.

Freemium

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Smartlook

Analyze user behavior in ways never possible before.

Freemium

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Helio

A survey platform for asking design, product, and marketing questions.

Paid

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Lookback

Remote user interviews with testers from around the world.

Paid

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MarkUp

Turn your website into a dynamic canvas ready for feedback and collaboration.

Freemium

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Ballpark

Research made simple with AI.

Freemium

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Userbrain

Your fast track to figuring out what’s working for your product — and what’s not.

Paid

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Feedback Fish

Collect issues, ideas and compliments with a simple widget.

Freemium

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Workflow

Design feedback and revisions, all in one place.

Free Trial

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UX Metrics

Card sorting and tree testing made easy.

Freemium

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Tally

Create forms for all purposes in seconds.

Freemium

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Sprig

All-in-one product research platform.

Freemium

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Heurio

Review websites 10X faster.

Freemium

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Velocity

AI user testing for prototypes to validate your product faster.

Free Trial

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Relicx

A digital experience monitoring and testing platform.

Freemium

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Ruttl

Fast visual feedback tool to comment on live websites, web apps, PDFs, and images.

Freemium

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Featurebase

Collect all user feedback in one place, organize it, and prioritize what to build next.

Freemium

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Uxia

Fast and reliable UX/UI validation using AI.

Freemium

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Cycle

Connect customer feedback to product delivery workflows.

Freemium

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Jimo

Engage users into your product development cycle and get continuous feedback.

Paid

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SuperFlow

A collaborative platform to review, proof and deliver creative assets fast.

Freemium

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Coframe

Let your website optimize itself with generative A/B testing.

Paid

UX Copy & Dummy Content

Resources for generating placeholder text, UX copy, and realistic content used in wireframes, prototypes, and testing scenarios.

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Lorem Ipsum

The definitive Lorem Ipsum website.

Free

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Good Bye John Doe

Peculiar names for the placeholder connoisseur.

Free

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Fake Name Generator

Generate names, addresses, social security numbers, credit card numbers, occupations, and more in 37 languages.

Free

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Wireframer

Flawless SVG text for your wireframes.

Free

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Random User

Like Lorem Ipsum, but for people.

Free

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Lazy Load

Generate skeleton loading screens in one click.

Free

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Microcopy

Short text for your website.

Free

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Lorem.space

Placeholder images but useful.

Free

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UI Generator

Create mockup UI for your website. Download free PNG files.

Free

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Lyricsum

Lorem Ipsum but it's song lyrics.

Free

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UXDummy

Create user persona within a minute, download as Powerpoint.

Free

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Plaiceholder

Beautiful image placeholders, without the hassle.

Freemium

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CTA Examples

Best call to action examples to maximize conversion rates.

Free + Paid

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uilogos

Free professional logo placeholders for personal and commercial use.

Free

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Website Headlines

A collection of the internet's finest website headlines.

Free

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Frontitude

One place for your product copy from design to production.

Freemium

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LoremGenie

Make Lorem ipsum in Figma designs more realistic.

Free + Paid

These tools focus on placeholder text and UX copy for design and prototyping. For AI-powered writing and content generation beyond UX use cases, explore AI marketing and copywriting tools.

User Images, Faces & Avatars

Libraries and generators offering user images, avatars, and persona assets to represent users in mockups, flows, and design presentations.

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Face Generator

Create a unique person with your parameters in one click.

Free + Paid

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UI Faces

Free AI-generated avatars for your creative projects.

Free

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Avaaatars

A large library of customizable and commercially free avatars.

Free

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Diverse UI

Free set of user images that can be used in personal or commercial projects.

Free

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Generated Humans

100,000 humans that don't exist.

Free + Paid

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Boring Avatars

A tiny JavaScript library to generate SVG avatars based on text.

Free

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Avvvatars

Free placeholder avatars unique to your user.

Free

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User Persona

Generate comprehensive user personas with the help of AI.

Free

These resources provide user images and avatars for design and prototyping. For a wider range of visual assets, explore stock photos & videos, and illustrations.

How These UX Tools Are Curated

This collection is curated through ongoing research, hands-on exploration, and input from UX designers working across different product teams. Toools.design focuses on tools that are actively used in real UX workflows, well-designed, and relevant to research, design, and validation tasks. The list is updated regularly to reflect new tools, meaningful updates, and shifts in how UX work is done.

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