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Index
2022 UX Tools survey
Index

3 About 2022 UX Tools survey

4 Sponsors & Organizer

6 Participants demographic

7 Wireframing & Prototyping

8 UI Design

9 Digital whiteboarding

10 Design handoff

11 User research

12 Behaviour analytics

13 Virtual collaboration

14 2022 UX Tools - Toolkit

15 Thank you gift!!!

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About 2022 - UX Tools Survey

This survey is aimed to learn about UX & design tools and preferences
by UX professionals, students etc. This is 2nd consecutive year of UX
Tools survey campaign run by UXNESS Edulabs to understand the
preference of using UX tools.

UX Tools categories:
- Wireframing & Prototyping
- UI Design
- Digital whiteboarding
- Design handoff
- User research
- User behaviour analytics
Preview of 2022 UX Tools survey form
- Virtual collaboration

Previous year - UX Tools survey 2021

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Participants demographics
Number of respondents = 312
How many years of experience do you have?
Which title best describes your role the best?
UX Designer 25

Participants (%)
20
User researcher
15
Student 10
UI Designer 5
Freelance designer 0
Student Less than 1 1 to 2 2 to 5 5 to 8 8 to 10 10 years +
Product Designer year years years years years
Graphic designer
Web designer
How many employees does your organization employ?
UX team lead
25
Product Manager
20

Participants (%)
Usability engineer
15
Director of UX
10
Others
5
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 0
Participants (%) 10001 and 5001 to 1001 to 501 to 101 to 500 Less than I am a I am a
more 10000 5000 1000 100 student freelancer

UX UX Above 10 years 2 to 8 years of Participants from

25% Designers 14% Researchers 18% experience 31% experience 17% company size 10000+
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Wireframing & prototyping

• Figma, Adobe XD were the top choice wireframing & prototyping tools Which software (s) do you use for wireframing & prototyping?
by the participants continuously for second year.
• 32% participants chose only Figma as ‘Wireframing & prototyping’ tool, Figma
whereas 10% selected Adobe XD only. Adobe XD
• 51% participants who use Figma were up to 5 years of experience. Sketch
• Notable entries this years – Antetype, Drama, UXPin, ProtoPie, Canva. Balsamiq
Axure
Microsoft Office
Top 5 Wireframing & prototyping tools
Invision
Miro
68% Figma Webflow
Google Slides
Invision Studio
33% Adobe XD UXPin
ProtoPie
Antetype
12% Sketch Marvel
Framer
JustinMind
9% Axure Others
I do not perform wireframing

9% Balsamiq 0 10 20 30 40 50
Responses (%) à
60 70 80 90 100

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UI Design
• Figma, Adobe XD were the top choice UI design tools by the Which software (s) do you use for UI design?
participants continuously for second year.
• 36% participants chose only Figma as ‘UI Design’ tool. Figma
• 13% participants selected Figma and Adobe XD together as UI
AdobeXD
design tool.
• Notable entries – Antetype, Visual Sitemaps, Canva. Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Top 5 UI Design tools
Sketch
Axure
68% Figma
UXPin
Balsamiq
25% Adobe XD Miro
Antetype
Marvel
14% Adobe Illustrator
ProtoPie
Invision
14% Adobe Photoshop
Other
I do not perform UI design work
11% Sketch 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
Responses (%) à

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Digital whiteboarding
• Surprisingly Figma leveled up this year and secured 1st choice in Digital Which software (s) do you use for digital whiteboarding?
whiteboarding with 40% participants choice.
• Figma, Miro, Figjam, Adobe XD, Mural were the top choice for Figma
conducting digital whiteboarding by respondents. Miro
• 28% participants who chose Figma & FigJam were up to 2 years of FigJam
experience. Adobe XD
• Notable entries - Lucidchart, Jamboard, Whimsical, Overflow.io,
Mural
Invision Freehand.
Adobe Illustrator
Top 5 Digital whiteboarding tools Sketch
Overflow.io
40% Figma Invision Freehand
Jamboard
Zoom
38% Miro Visual Sitemaps
Adobe Photoshop
Axure
37% FigJam Canva
Flowmapp
Lucidchart
14% Adobe XD Whimsical
I do not use Digital whiteboa…
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
11% Mural Responses (%) à

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Design handoff
• Figma, Sketch were the top choice Design handoff tools by the Which software (s) do you use for design handoff?
participants.
• 63% participants who selected ‘I do not use design handoff tools’ Figma
were students or up to 2 years of experience. Sketch
• Majority of respondents who use Design handoff tools marked their
role as UX designers. Invision
• Notable entries – Avocode, Pixels, ProtoPie. Zeplin
Top 5 Design handoff tools Miro
Jira
57% Figma ProtoPie
Framer
Confluence
10% Sketch
Axure
Antetype
9% Zeplin Pixel
Mural

9% Invision Avocode
Abstract
I do not use design handoff t…
7% Miro 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
Responses (%) à

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User research
• Google forms and User Interviews were the top choice User research tools Which software (s) do you use for user research?
by the participants for consecutive 2nd year. Google forms
User Interviews
• 27% participants who chose User Interviews were up to 2 years of SurveyMonkey
experience. Miro
UserTesting
• Notable entries - Condens, Airtable, Evolve, Aurelius, EnjoyHQ. UXTweak
UserZoom
Maze
Op timal Workshop
Top 5 User research tools Typeform
Dovetail
Qu altrics
Resp ondent.io
40% Google forms UsabilityHub
MUIQ (by MeasuringU)
Op timizely
Reframer
Calendly

28% User Interviews UserLytics

Lookb ack
CrazzyEgg
EnjoyHQ
Playb ook UX

20% SurveyMonkey UXMetrics

Evolve
Aurelius
Con dens
ProvenByUsers
Airtable
17% Miro Dscout
Loop11
Others
I do not perform user research

15% UserTesting 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

Responses (%) à

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Behavior analytics
• Google analytics and HotJar were the top choice user behavior Which software (s) do you use for behavior analytics?
analytics tools by the participants consecutive 2nds year.
• 33% participants do not use any behavior analytics tool. Google Analytics
• 37% participants who use behavior analytics tools were above 5 Hotjar
years of experience.
Crazyegg
• Notable entries – UXTweak, Pendo, FullStory, Adove Analytics,
Amplitude. In-house build application
Top 5 Behavior analytics tools Mixpanel
Clicktale
UXtweak
48% Google Analytics
Bitly
FullStory
14% Hotjar Screaming Frog
Google Search Console
Amplitude
7% Crazyegg
Adobe Analytics
UXTweak
4% Mixpanel Visual Website Optimizer
Others
I do not use behavior analyti…
4% Contentsquare (formerly Clicktale) 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
Responses (%) à

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Virtual collaboration
• Zoom, Google Meet, Slack, Microsoft Teams and Miro Which software (s) do you use for virtual collaboration at your workspace?
were the top choice virtual collaboration tools by the
participants. Zoom
• Notable entries – Trello, GitHub, Discord, Asana.
Slack
Google Meet
Microsoft Teams
Top 5 Virtual collaboration tools
Miro
Skype
44% Zoom
GitHub
WebEx
38% Google Meet Workplace
Trello
38% Slack FaceTime
jira
Discord
35% Microsoft Teams
BlueJeans
Other
19% Miro
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
Responses (%) à

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UX Tools 2022 Toolkit

Top 5 UX tools – emerged from 2022 survey

Wireframing & UI Design Digital whiteboarding Design handoff User research Behavior analytics Virtual collaboration
prototyping

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