The document evaluates the top 20 design and wireframing tools on the market. It provides a brief overview of each tool, highlighting their key features and benefits. Some of the top tools mentioned include Wireframe.cc, Balsamiq Wireframes, FluidUI, Pidoco, Pencil Project, Axure, Gliffy, ProtoShare, Frame Box, MockFlow, UXPin, Sketch, Figma, Moqups, HotGloo, Marvel, Proto.io, Cacoo, Wirefy, and LucidChart. The document concludes by stating that these wireframing tools allow users to create stunning designs that showcase website and app frameworks, and help prove concepts and gain appro

1. Top 20 Design & Wireframing Tools

2. Top 20 Design & Wireframing Tools
Have you ever wondered this: what is the best way to plan and map out the layout and structure of a
website or mobile app? Or how you should go about showing, explaining and proving to people that
your ideas and/or concept will work before you start working on the prototype?
If you do it verbally or in writing, you leave a lot of things to people’s imagination and there’s bound
to be misunderstanding. The answer is to use wireframing tools to make wireframes.
In this SlideShare, we will evaluate the top 20 Design & Wireframing tools on the market.
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3. 1. Wireframe.cc
Wireframe.cc
▪ Best suited for those who are just getting
started
▪ No-nonsense and minimal user interface,
you will get used to it in no time
▪ Create and design wireframes for desktop,
mobile, and tablet
▪ Add annotations to specific markup areas
for comments and reviews too
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4. 2. Balsamiq Wireframes
Balsamiq Wireframes
▪ Easy to use thanks to its drag-and-drop
functionality
▪ Use it on desktop as an app, on web
browser, or integrate it with your Google
Drive
▪ Sketch mode for brainstorming and a clean
wireframe mode for presentation
▪ Offers a 30-day free trial for trying it out
before committing
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5. 3. FluidUI
FluidUI
▪ Widely used by designers from top tech
companies such as Google, Oracle, and
Samsung
▪ Create stunning wireframes and prototypes
for both websites and mobile apps in
minutes
▪ Add interactivity and animation into your
wireframes
▪ Available as a mobile app on Android and
iOS
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6. 4. Pidoco
Pidoco
▪ Cloud-hosted, end-to-end wireframing tool,
trusted by companies like T-Mobile, Zimory,
and Sanofi
▪ Custom templates, interactive elements, and
easy sketching
▪ Share and co-edit screens with other users
and collect comments in real-time
▪ Create custom building blocks and reuse
them over and over
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7. 5. Pencil Project
Pencil Project
▪ An open source and free wireframing and
prototyping tool that runs on Windows,
MacOS, and Linux
▪ Has inter-page linking which allows to be
linked to a specific page in the same project
▪ Export wireframes to different output
formats, including Single Web Page, PNG,
PDF, and SVG
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8. 6. Axure
Axure
▪ Designed for website, mobile app, and
software projects
▪ Comes with animation, adaptive views, and
conditional flow features
▪ Create mockups, user journeys, flowcharts,
idea boards, and more
▪ However, the learning curve might be steep
for some
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9. 7. Gliffy
Gliffy
▪ Create wireframes for websites and apps
and share and collaborate with others
▪ Comes with customisable wireframe
templates, forms and shapes with
drag-and-drop capabilities
▪ Integrates with Atlassian’s JIRA AND
Confluence for enhanced workflows
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10. 8. ProtoShare
ProtoShare
▪ Enables easy, seamless team collaboration
on projects and acts as a single repository
for all your team communications
▪ Streamline your work by creating Masters
and Templates from scratch and reusing
them across pages and projects
▪ Comes with a library of interactive items and
widgets to make your wireframes interactive
and engaging
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11. 9. Frame Box
Frame Box
▪ Straightforward and easy to use with drag
and drop elements
▪ Store projects for a limited time and share
as unique URL links
▪ Offers three modes in total: edit, preview,
and comment
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12. 10. MockFlow
MockFlow
▪ Suited for prototyping, UI mockups, UX
suite, and UX planning
▪ Boasts thousands of wireframe templates in
its MockSotre to import for immediate use
▪ Comes with readily-made component packs
you can use for any user interface
▪ Has a forever-free basic plan
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13. 11. UXPin
UXPin
▪ Wireframing, UX design, and prototyping
tool that boasts companies such as HBO,
PayPal, and Microsoft
▪ Features: share, comment, review, approval
request, task assignment, Slack and email
notification
▪ Automatically keeps all your style guide for
each design in one place
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14. 12. Sketch
Sketch
▪ Design, wireframing, and prototyping tool
that claimed to have powered big brands
such as Apple, Facebook, and Nintendo
▪ Constantly updates its system and refreshes
its look
▪ Features such as non-destructive editing
and dynamic data and content
▪ Offers hundreds of third-party plugins
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15. 13. Figma
Figma
▪ Offers a forever-free plan with 2 editors and
3 projects
▪ Easily create, design, and share wireframes
with anyone with a live URL link
▪ Supports real-time collaboration on the
same file without interference or
overlapping
▪ Has a pre-made Wireframe Kit for helping
you to jump start a project
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16. 14. Moqups
Moqups
▪ A wireframing, UI prototyping, and design
platform
▪ Designed for real-time planning, designing,
and collaborating
▪ Comes with a built-in library of thousands of
popular icon sets and stencil kits
▪ Powerful Page Management to handle any
complex projects
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17. 15. HotGloo
HotGloo
▪ Trusted by renowned brands such as
Disney, Deloitte, and IBM
▪ Easy learning curve with tutorials and a
knowledge base
▪ Available as mobile apps on Android and
iOS for working on-the-fly
▪ Create and design highly interactive
wireframes with over 2000 elements in its
vast library
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18. 16. Marvel
Marvel
▪ All-in-one design platform that allows you to
do wireframing, prototyping, user testing,
and general design
▪ Offers templates for web, Android, iOS,
Apple TV, and even Apple Watch
▪ Has hundreds of simple wireframe assets
for every device
▪ Integrate the platform with apps such as
Slack, Dropbox, and Confluence
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19. 17. Proto.io
Proto.io
▪ Catered towards user experience testing
▪ Create interactive wireframes and gather
early user feedback
▪ Embed your wireframes into a website or
submit them to user testing platforms
▪ Available on Android, iOS, desktop, or the
web browser
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20. 18. Cacoo
Cacoo
▪ Create wireframes for webpages and mobile
apps
▪ Comes with a vast collection of wireframe
templates for Android, iOS, and desktop
website
▪ Collaborate with your team members in real
time with the comment and co-edit features
▪ Team management and file management
are also included
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21. 19. Wirefy
Wirefy
▪ Highly configurable and flexible
▪ Full control over the tool and you can tweak
it to fit your needs
▪ Requires technical skills to install and get
started
▪ For web developers Wirefy can be one of the
most powerful, free tools out there
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22. 20. LucidChart
LucidChart
▪ A variety of elements, shapes, templates,
widgets, UI containers, and more
▪ Boasts the group chat feature that many
don’t have
▪ The software is cheaper than many other
competitors and it is scalable no less
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23. Starting building a website with great UX!
There you have it. That’s our top 20 design & wireframing tools overview. No matter which one you
decide to work with, it will enable you to come up with stunningly designed wireframes that show
the skeletal framework of your websites or mobile apps at a glance. In return, your concepts and
their usability will be proved, consensus built, approvals gained, and before you know it, you get to
move on to prototyping!
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