With the development of the Internet, UI designer has gradually become an indispensable position for many companies. To become an excellent UI designer, you need to master more skills to enhance your competitiveness. For those of you who want to change your career to UI design, here are five essential design tools for UI designers. (Source: Qian Feng)

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1, the Sketch

Sketch is a powerful interface design tool, designed for UI designers to make your interface design easier and more efficient. If you’re a UX or UI designer, you know Sketch is a powerful UI design software. If you want to change careers as a UI designer, you can’t miss this great design tool.

2, Photoshop

Photoshop is one of the most popular image editors and an essential interface design tool for UI designers to get started. I believe you are not a design industry partner, but also know a little. PS as a UI interface design artifact, has a powerful picture editing and processing functions, what you want graphics can be achieved by PS, can be used for post-production photography, can add a variety of filters to the image, adjust brightness, contrast, etc., to generate high resolution graphics. The Layers palette is a very simple and efficient way to fix images. Photoshop also provides the option to save in different file formats, and adjust the image size and resolution without losing the image quality.

3, Mockplus

Mockplus is an efficient and simple app interface design tool. It is a popular domestic interface prototype design tool among product managers. Software provides more than 3000 packaged ICONS and more than 200 components, drag and drop can be UI interface design, learning cost is low, without code participation, so it is a very good choice for UI designers. If a UI designer doesn’t have basic prototyping skills, how can he communicate effectively with developers?

4, Zeplin

A collaborative interface design tool for UI designers and development engineers. As a UI designer, you need to communicate your design to the development team, and Zeplin designed to do just that. Zeplin is easy to use. Designers upload the UI design directly from Sketch. The app automatically generates annotations, and you can see the size, color, margins and even code information of each element on the right side of the panel.

5, AE

Adobe After Effects is a graphical and video processing interface design tool launched by Adobe. Nowadays, dynamic effect design has been more and more widely used in UI interface design, and many domestic companies began to pay attention to dynamic effect design, so as UI designers, should also master some dynamic effect design. In fact, the application of dynamic effect in UI design is more powerful than we imagined. Good dynamic effect design can provide users with a good visual experience, so as to strengthen the interactive experience between users.