{"id":444,"date":"2021-06-09T13:01:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T13:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/?page_id=444"},"modified":"2021-06-09T15:13:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T15:13:50","slug":"software","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/software\/","title":{"rendered":"Software"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>&#8220;We tend to use the right&nbsp;tool&nbsp;for the job, though you&#8217;ll find people in the industry who will champion specific&nbsp;tools as a one fit for all&#8230;the emphasis should be less on the&nbsp;tools and more the principles.&#8221;<\/p><cite>Pete Abbot, Senior Designer at Redgate Software, NUA Graduate<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a large and rapidly evolving ecosystem of software that UX\/UI Designers use to build and test digital products, each with their own unique advantages and disadvantages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, many prototyping apps use similar conventions, are relatively easy to start working with, and can import each other&#8217;s files.<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__featured-image alignright\"><img width=\"300\" height=\"173\" src=\"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/figma-interface-300x173.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%;height:57.52%;max-width:1024px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/figma-interface-300x173.png 300w, https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/figma-interface-768x442.png 768w, https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/figma-interface.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/software\/figma\/\">Figma<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Figma is a design and prototyping app, free for students to use, which can run entirely in a web browser, or be downloaded as a desktop app for PC and Mac.<\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__featured-image alignright\"><img width=\"300\" height=\"149\" src=\"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/invision-studio-interface-300x149.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%;height:49.51%;max-width:1024px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/invision-studio-interface-300x149.png 300w, https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/invision-studio-interface-768x380.png 768w, https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/invision-studio-interface.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/software\/invision-studio\/\">Invision Studio<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Invision Studio is a design and prototyping app with a powerful animation timeline feature, allowing designers fine control over the movement of elements on screens. <\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__featured-image alignright\"><img width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sketch-interface-300x169.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%;height:56.25%;max-width:2560px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sketch-interface-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sketch-interface-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sketch-interface-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sketch-interface-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sketch-interface-2048x1152.png 2048w, https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sketch-interface-1200x675.png 1200w, https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sketch-interface-1980x1114.png 1980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/software\/sketch\/\">Sketch<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Sketch is a design and prototyping app. Available only for Mac, Sketch is one of the oldest and most established prototyping apps and has a large and loyal following. It has a huge library of plugins.<\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__featured-image alignright\"><img width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/xd-interface-300x169.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%;height:56.19%;max-width:1851px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/xd-interface-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/xd-interface-1024x575.png 1024w, https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/xd-interface-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/xd-interface-1536x863.png 1536w, https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/xd-interface-1200x674.png 1200w, https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/xd-interface.png 1851w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/software\/adobe-xd\/\">Adobe XD<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">XD is Adobe&#8217;s app for design and prototyping. It integrates particularly well with the rest of the Adobe suite. Designs can be easily be exported directly to After Effects.  <\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__featured-image alignright\"><img width=\"300\" height=\"175\" src=\"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/axure-rp-interface-300x175.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%;height:58.32%;max-width:1250px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/axure-rp-interface-300x175.png 300w, https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/axure-rp-interface-1024x597.png 1024w, https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/axure-rp-interface-768x448.png 768w, https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/axure-rp-interface-1200x700.png 1200w, https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/axure-rp-interface.png 1250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/software\/axure-rp\/\">Axure RP<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Axure RP is a design and prototyping app which is able to use real form inputs, data, variables and logic to create very realistic prototype app and website experiences.<\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__featured-image alignright\"><img width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/framer-interface-300x168.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%;height:56%;max-width:900px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/framer-interface-300x168.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/framer-interface-768x430.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/framer-interface.jpeg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/software\/dave-watson-admin\/\">Framer<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Framer is a design and prototyping app which allows slick animation and complex realistic interactions with real form entry, data, and variables using the Javascript library React, which can be used to build fully functioning mobile apps.\n\n<\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We tend to use the right&nbsp;tool&nbsp;for the job, though you&#8217;ll find people in the industry who will champion specific&nbsp;tools as a one fit for all&#8230;the emphasis should be less on the&nbsp;tools and more the principles.&#8221; Pete Abbot, Senior Designer at Redgate Software, NUA Graduate There is a large and rapidly evolving ecosystem of software that&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/software\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Software<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/444\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nua-ux.design\/dave-watson\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}