Ask HN: Good Design Mockup Software, other than PowerPoint

2 pointsby kyleShropshirevor 6 Jahren9 comments

I currently use PowerPoint for design mock-ups. It takes minimal effort to drag icons and images onto a page and quickly iterate through many different concepts.

What do you use to quickly create new design concepts?

4 comments

pensatoiovor 6 Jahren

https://miro.com

Miro (formerly RealtimeBord) is a multipurpose digital whiteboard that has changed remote work for me. Even before the pandemic, it made partially remote team collaboration so much easier.

You can drag and drop stuff from your computer into the board. You can draw. It has awesome diagraming tools, icon sets, and extensions. It’s not specifically a design tool, but it fills that role of whiteboard - sharing ideas visually - better than I thought possible in a virtual setting.

(I don’t work for them. I just love it so much. If anyone from miro sees this, please offer a cheap personal plan.)

kyleShropshirevor 6 Jahren

The demo video looks promising.

andixvor 6 Jahren

For UI Mockups i use Balsamiq https://balsamiq.com/wireframes/

It's my sweet spot for quick iterations, close to reality and still abstract enough

kyleShropshirevor 6 Jahren

Thanks, I like how it purposely looks like sketches to help guide people to the meaning behind the mock-up and not the specific hue used for the buttons.

billfruitvor 6 Jahren

There is[0] something called "pencil" for mock guis.

[0] https://pencil.evolus.vn/

kyleShropshirevor 6 Jahren

That looks promising since the feature list basically covers what I try to do currently with powerpoint.

jagger27vor 6 Jahren

Figma.

jmarchellovor 6 Jahren

I second figma, it’s great

kyleShropshirevor 6 Jahren

Thanks, I will check it out.