The 2020 Design Tools Survey, and No More Paywall?
Updates from Prototypr
The Medium paywall has gone! 🎉
Over the last year, we’ve been publishing on the Prototypr Open platform to keep everything freely accessible to all. Here’s some of what you may have missed while we were away from Medium:
2020 Design Tools Survey
The Design Tools Survey: Back in 2019, the results showed that Sketch was the design tool of choice across 6 out of 9 categories. In 2020, unless you’ve been living under a rock (which you may have been this year), you might have noticed Figma’s insane growth, and the rise of Adobe XD. ‘Let’s see how a global pandemic has affected the way we work’!
The Design Tools Survey is a free yearly report run by Taylor Palmer at UX Tools. Fill it out to have your say.
Tools in Issue 179
This issue saw user testing tool, Maze launch for Adobe XD, an awesome AI-based color generator, and more:
Sketch 69 and The Prototypr Circle
Sketch 69: Colour variables, a new components view, and ‘Insert Window’ 👀. In all, better design systems in Sketch 69 🎉- find out what’s new here or here.
As well as Sketch 69, in issue 178, we introduced Prototypr Circle — a webring to feature more independent writing and personal blogs in our publication and newsletters. Just submit your website to join the circle. If you’ve not got a blog, recommend one you love!
Tools in Issue 178:
A new prototyping kit from Framer, a really cool keyboard simulator, another icon set, and more:
XD has a new look and Sketch’s Decade in Design
Issue 177 kicked off with news from Sketch, XD and Figma:
- 💎 Sketch: A decade in Design — a conversation with Sketch co-founder, Emanuel Sá, covering the last 10 years of design tools.
- 😍 Adobe XD Has a New Look. XD has come a long way since the launch of version 1.0 nearly 3 years ago!
- 💌 Figma: Embracing the tension between code and design. A look at several new features that bring designers and developers closer together.
Tools in Issue 177:
Those were just a few highlights from our last 3 issues. You can see the entire newsletter archive of 179 posts here, and a host of awesome stories we published over here.
With Medium becoming a more open platform, we’re excited to be sharing here again, but will also continue our work on the open web.
When closed, proprietary technology proliferates, innovation and competition are stifled. The web is no longer a level playing field — it’s a platform controlled by a select few. ~ Mozilla on the Open Web
If you have your own personal blog that you want shared in the Prototypr Circle, please submit it below:
Finally, don’t forget Tobias van Schneider’s advice:
