As a Chinese saying goes, “If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools.” For product managers, tools are essential in daily work. I will share with you some common tools for product managers.


Prototype design tools

Axure: Professional prototyping tool

The official website link: www.axure.com/download

Axure is the most widely used prototyping tool in the world, a prototyping tool that any product manager or interaction designer must learn. Simple operation, high efficiency, versatile design software.

Axure is a professional rapid prototyping tool. Axure (pronounced: Ack-sure) stands for Axure Corporation of America; RP stands for Rapid Prototyping.

Axure is a professional rapid prototyping tool that enables experts responsible for defining requirements and specifications, designing features and interfaces to quickly create wireframes, flowcharts, prototypes and specification documents for applications or Web sites. As a professional prototyping tool, it can create prototypes quickly and efficiently, while supporting multi-party collaborative design and version control management.

Axure has been adopted by some large companies. Axure RP is used by business analysts, information architects, usability specialists, product managers, IT consultants, user experience designers, interaction designers, interface designers, etc. Architects and programmers also use Axure RP.



2. Ink Knife – a free mobile app prototype and wireframing tool

Official website link: modao.cc/

Domestic, the most user-friendly prototype design tool, quickly build mobile application prototype and wireframes, cloud saving, real-time mobile preview, a variety of gesture animation effects, one-click export workflow and team collaboration management functions.

MockingBot, an online prototyping and collaboration tool from Beijing Modao Carving Stone Technology Co., LTD., was first launched in the United States and then quickly exploded in the Chinese market.

Ink knife is committed to simplifying product production and design process. It adopts simple drag and drop operation, allowing users to design an APP in only 10 minutes. At the same time, as an online prototype design software, Ink Knife supports cloud saving, real-time preview, one-click sharing, and multi-person collaboration, allowing product teams to quickly and efficiently complete product prototyping and interaction design.

Using ink knife, users can quickly create high-fidelity prototypes that can run directly on mobile phones and interact with real apps, so that creativity can be presented more intuitively. Whether it is collecting product feedback from customers, presenting demo to investors, or coordinating communication and document management within the team, Ink Knife can greatly improve work efficiency, break communication barriers and reduce project risks.


Second, thinking and brain mapping tools

Product managers need absolute clarity on product planning. Mind mapping tools can help product managers comb through ideas, clarify logic, and determine the framework of a product when designing a product.

1. Baidu Brain Map

Official website link: naotu.baidu.com

Baidu Brain Map is an online mind map editor launched by Baidu. It supports drag and drop anywhere, and files are stored in the cloud without taking up hard drive space. Baidu brain map supports the sharing function, you can share the brain map to other partners with one click. In addition to basic functions, Baidu Brain Map also supports import and export of XMind and FreeMind files, as well as image files in PNG and SVG formats.

“The world is very complex, Baidu knows you better”, simple and intuitive Baidu brain map will show some complex things, so that readers can easily understand and comb.



2, Xmind

The official website link: www.xmindchina.net/

Xmind is an open source business mind mapping software, the product manager in conducting brainstorming, can use Xmind to clear up the thoughts quickly, quickly record and structured thinking inspiration, and fishbone diagram can be drawn, two-dimensional figure, tree diagram, logic diagram and organization chart, you can also easily convert between these display form. XMind can import files from MindManager and FreeMind data, as well as export files to Word, PPT, PDF, images, and TXT formats, so that diagrams drawn with XMind can be easily shared with others. It can be downloaded for Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems.

XMind is a very practical business mind mapping software, including thinking management, business presentation, and office software collaboration and other functions.

XMind features can be “domestic and international development; Commercial and open source versions; Feature rich and beautiful “to sum up, more help to diverge your thinking.



Third, project collaboration tools

1, Worktile

The official website link: worktile.com/signin/

A product from the preliminary planning to the final release, is a need to constantly optimize the process. In addition to following up on the original plan, the product manager also needs to keep track of ideas and product feedback that may arise at any time, and communicate with team members and assign tasks in a timely manner.

Worktile is a team collaboration tool that enables easy collaboration in team interaction and task management through simple collaboration, communication and sharing. The panel interface allows you to see all tasks intuitively and clearly, with simple drag and drop operation, real-time page refresh, and data synchronization update between web and mobile terminals. Projects have tasks, files, topics, documents, calendars, newsletters, and anything about the product can be done with Worktile.



2, JIRA

Official website: www.jira.cn/secure/Dash…

JIRA is a project and transaction tracking tool, which can be applied to project execution management, agile development management, system process management, proposal tracking, requirements management, customer service and other work areas.

JIRA is workflow-based and provides powerful workflow management. Product managers use JIRA to collaborate between different teams. Operational rules and institutional processes can be customized. And you can use JIRA to track product bugs. Jira also integrates hundreds of application plug-ins to improve product ease of use. JIRA can be downloaded from the Web, Windows, Linux, and MAC OS X operating systems.



Image processing tools

Photoshop

Link: www.photoshop.com/

Adobe Photoshop, or “PS”, is an image processing software developed and distributed by Adobe Systems. It is a well-known image design and processing tool.

Photoshop works mainly with digital images made up of pixels. With its numerous editing and drawing tools, you can effectively edit pictures. Ps has a lot of functions, in the image, graphics, text, video, publishing and other aspects are involved.

Photoshop is not just for designers. Product managers who have mastered some of the most common Photoshop techniques can benefit a lot in their daily work.



Flowchart tool

Visio

Visio is a flowchart making tool launched by Microsoft. It is also the most commonly used flowchart tool by product managers. Through Visio you can easily and quickly draw out the business process and system implementation process. It itself has a lot of component library, can be very convenient to complete all kinds of flow charts, structure and network diagram production. Another feature of Visio is its rich built-in templates.



Data analysis tools

God ce data

The official website link: www.sensorsdata.cn/

Shence analytics is a user behavior analysis tool for Internet products that helps product managers monitor user data in real time. Through various analysis models of the platform, including event analysis, funnel analysis, retention analysis, return visit analysis, etc., product managers can independently review the channel effect, activity promotion, subsequent retention, conversion and realization of the product after the launch of various analysis required. In addition, Shence analysis also has second level import, real-time query, user group, user portrait and other functions.



7. User research tools

The questionnaire web

The official website link: www.wenjuan.com/

Questionnaire net is a free online survey platform, support for multiple form rapid production, can pass through the web, mobile phones, WeChat, E-mail and so on a variety of ways to collect data, and be able to generate the cross analysis report and support a variety of data format export, product managers can use it to design a questionnaire for their early market research, collect user demand and product use the feedback quickly.



The above is I am for you to sort out a few product managers commonly used tools, I hope to be useful to you!