Source: Pikaicon

I, too, tested a few new tools in May 2023 and decided to make a small selection for you to get acquainted with new ones that can significantly facilitate your work and improve the quality of your projects.

Let’s dive into the world of innovation and discover the new possibilities modern UI/UX design offers!

Clarity by Microsoft

Source: msftClarity

Microsoft Clarity is a handy free tool showing how people use your site. What can it do? Generate heatmaps and record sessions so you understand how a user navigates through the pages of your site and at what point they can get lost. All analytics are documented, which is very important for UX designers. After all, this way, you can track results and performance. I also like the fact that there is integration with Google Analytics.

Clarity’s features are optimized for mobile apps as well. The tool recreates mobile sessions with great accuracy while not slowing down apps, which is very important!

LottieFiles For Figma

LottieFiles has released a plugin allowing you to export the finished animations from Figma. Shipping prototypes as Lottie, GIF and SVG files are now possible. Colleagues say that only some things work perfectly. For example, vectors are loaded inconsistently. But this will be fixed very soon.

Spline Community

I’m sure you’ve already heard about this new platform. It’s like Figma Community, where you have plugins, resources and examples of other designers’ work at your fingertips for inspiration.

In the Spline Community, you can search for ideas, show off your 3d creations, make live remixes and communicate with other designers.

With AI, you can create 3D images in different styles and explore new ways to present your designs. To change the details, you must enter a textual prompt and choose the result that suits you.

Figjam For iPad

Source: figjam

Figjam For iPad is an app for quickly sketching and sharing ideas with your team. It offers you the tools you’re used to, but now for iPad. So you can draw using the Apple Pencil or Magic Keyboard.

Dora AI Design

Source: easywithai.com/ai-website-builders/dora-ai/

Dora AI Design is an easy-to-use website creation platform. You enter a single text prompt and get an excellent AI-generated 3D animated website.

Dora AI has an intuitive editor to personalize and customize the website without code. The platform is still in alpha testing. The developers promise to add many new features.

Text to Design — AI Assistant

Text to Design is a Figm AI plugin that uses AI to transform text cues into beautiful, functional design elements. Creating user interface elements with it is much more interesting, faster and more practical.

Pikaicons

Source: Pikaicon

Pikaicons is a library of icons where you can quickly find something that will make your project special and unique. They are conveniently organized; you can manage them in a separate folder and change the stroke, line smoothing, style and size. You can immediately integrate them into your designs as they are in SVG code.

What new tools and applications have you tried in May and June? Share your experiences.