Product Design Tools

A picture is worth a thousand words and hence mockups are a great way to convey user requirements. While product managers do not design products, product design is a part of product management. Product design tools can do anything from quickly mocking up screens to high fidelty design that can be handed over to developers for implementation.

 Product Design Tools
  • InVision

    InVision

    InVision allows you to bring prototypes to life with an intuitive “drag-and-drop” style flow builder. Best of all, it allows for capturing feedback on screens so you can iterate through design variations.

    Free tier

    Free trial

    $7.95 p/m
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  • Sketch

    Sketch

    From rapid prototyping to high fidelity, Sketch does it all. Sketch is ideal for the solo product manager to a full fledged mature design team.

    Free tier

    Free trial

    $99
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  • Balsamiq

    Balsamiq

    A rapid mockup tool with a desktop and web based version. Balsamiq is all about low fidelity conceptualisation with lots of premade components for common design scenarios.

    Free tier

    Free trial

    $9 p/m
    Website
  • Figma

    Figma

    A browser-based design tool with an emphasis on collaboration and component reusability, Figma is becoming the de-facto tool for small and large design teams to build advanced design systems in. Figma also supports hundreds of plugins and has tremendous community support behind it

    Free tier

    Free trial

    $12 p/m
    Website

About the author

  • Asher Saeed is the founder of Topic Expert and a technology and product leader with over 20 years experience in building high growth scale-up businesses.

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