Tools designers use in their work. According to a poll of designers from 200 countries

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What tools designers use in order to think of ideas, create prototypes and manage projects? Subtraction.com has carried out a poll among 4 000 designers from 200 countries and found out what tools they like most of all.

Participants of the poll were asked to name their favorite tools they use for 6 main design-tasks. Here’s a translation of the article by Ekaterina Izmestieva.

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Thinking of ideas and brainstorm

Most of the participants have voted for the simplest tools (a pen and a pencil) in this very important category.

64% a pen and a pencil

10% Sketch (Bohemian Coding)

7% Illustrator

7% Photoshop

6% other

2% Paper (Fiftythree)

2% InDesign

1% nothing

Wireframing

In this category (where such tools for creating mock-ups as Balsamiq and Omnigraffle should lead) many people polled have chosen Sketch and Illustrator.

27% Sketch (Bohemian Coding)

19% Illustrator

14% HTML/CSS

11% other

8% nothing

7% Balsamiq

6% Omnigraffle

4% InDesign

2% Keynote

1% UXPin

Interface design

And again Sketch is the leader. It’s a favorite tool for interface design for ? of poll participants. Photoshop is the second.

34% Sketch (Bohemian Coding)

29% Photoshop

15% HTML/CSS

12% Illustrator

4% other

2% nothing

2% InDesign

2% Fireworks

Prototyping

DIY (Do It Yourself) has become a widespread approach in this category.

38% HTML/CSS

18% InVision

11% other

9% nothing

6% Axure

5% Framer

4% Marvel

4% Keynote

3% After Effects

2% Pixate

Project management

There were many various answers in this category. Slack has become one of the most popular tools (which is not surprising) but 67% of participants have named tools that weren’t present in the investigation (which tells about a great market fragmentation).