5 UX TOOLS WE'RE THANKFUL FOR

Have you ever thought about who created the?UX tools that make our jobs easier today? Today, in the spirit of Thanksgiving, we're celebrating the apps, designs, enhancements, and platforms that improve the user experience for all of us in the UX world.

Here are our top 5 favorite tools:

#1 Figma y FigJam

Figma is a great UX and UI tool to work on basically anything you need in your project, from prototypes, site aspects, wireframes, and even information architecture. It's easy to use, intuitive, and collaborative. But when FigJam came along, it blew our minds.

FigJam is also powered by Figma, but it's designed to engage the whole team in brainstorming, coordinating processes, and timelines, creating concepts and user flows. The whole team can connect and add sticky notes in real-time, chat. To make it even more functional, they can even add widgets and plugins.

#2 Adobe XD

We say a million thanks to those who created Adobe XD, one of the most popular UX design tools worldwide, especially to all the designers who already use the various Adobe applications.

What we like most about Adobe XD is that it's a cloud-based tool that can be accessed from any browser. It contains a feature to view the version history, because being aware of what we’re changing to improve is useful, and it also has a feature to record the previews and present them to clients.

#3 Sketch

Although it is only available on Apple devices, Sketch is a tool that those with little knowledge of code or more complex UX applications will appreciate because its interface is very simple while still allowing you to create prototypes, wireframe, and user interfaces.

#4 Tools for UX research: Lookback and UXPressia?

There are also people who have thought of ways to make UX research easier, and here are our favorites:?Lookback for video interviews and usability testing, and UXPressia for creating user personas, touchpoints, and user journey maps.

#5 Tools for analysis: Google Analytics and Hotjar

It is difficult to choose just one UX tool when there are so many that solve every step of the project. In this case, when we are in the analysis phase, we love Google Analytics?for the massive amount of data you can get for free!?

Meanwhile, when?Hotjar is integrated into your website, it can create a heat map and tell you where and how often users click.

Want more? How about giving thanks for the UX improvements that make us happy?

Paying with our phones makes us happy.?

The Apple Pay or Google Pay payment system, which replaces debit or credit cards to pay at various stores simply by waving your phone around, is a marvel to not having to worry about theft or forgetfulness.

The car mode of apps.?

Spotify, Waze, Messenger, and Telegram, are just some of the apps that have started to think about us when we drive, adapting their functions to a safer and distraction-free UI version.

Sharing between devices.

Isn't it wonderful to know that you can continue your Amazon purchase from your phone, even if you started it on your computer? or continue watching a movie on Netflix from your phone to your TV?

Voice assistants.

Thanks to Siri, Alexa, Google, and all the other voice assistants that solve our doubts in seconds, help us control our homes, and are a great solution for people with visual disabilities.

The development of artificial intelligence.

We cannot leave behind the great revelation of this year. Tools like ChatGPT, the new Bing search engine, and all the platforms that now use AI make us grateful for making our lives easier.

There is no doubt that there are many other UX tools that are not on this list but deserve recognition. What other tools do you use in your work that you would like to acknowledge in the comments?