BOX DESIGN PROTOTYPING TOOLS

 

Prototyping, beyond any doubt, plays an indispensable role in UI/UX design. Testing your application or eCommerce website design before getting a Minimum Viable Product is becoming now even more essential. The reason is pure and simple — you can save up on the design process and, after all, get a much better user experience. Usually, prototypes can be of low (rapid/fast) or high fidelity, each of them pursuing their own goals, especially when the costs/time is an issue.

However, these design techniques can be also used together, if a project requires more detailed analysis and iteration. For instance, let’s tap into the UI design insights of renowned research and consulting firm, Nielsen Norman Group, which provides global guidance on user experience to the B2B sector. The firm has put a strong emphasis on utilizing both rapid prototyping and high-fidelity prototyping tools while refreshing the overall look of their corporate website. It means both quick sketches and comprehensive prototypes are needed during the design thinking process.



Prototype
let’s see how prototyping looks like within the framework of the design flow.
What is rapid prototyping or high-fidelity prototypes within the entire design process? Alongside sketches, mockups, and wireframes, which feature less functional peculiarities, the former is way more complicated and rich in detail. For example, the best UI sketching tools would be not enough for creating an actionable prototype for your design project.

What an advantage can thorough or even fast prototyping give to designers? Bluntly put, it enables them to test and iterate all their ideas, to check the feasibility of a product long before its launch, and estimate the potential feedback of the end-users. Designers along with project managers can have a great chance to evaluate the project efficiency, add some UX-appealing details, and if any — get rid of awkward unnecessary features. Either way, identifying and preventing design problems in the early stages is totally beneficial for all the stakeholders.

 How to choose the best prototyping tool?

When you are dead sure about implementing new design findings, this brings up the reasonable question of which tool will better suit your individual needs. Picking the right instrument is not a cakewalk as it might seem. The scope of prototyping solutions is almost limitless in the current market, however, not all of them can fulfill your website design tasks. Why is it so, you may wonder?
The rationale behind this is quite clear. First, some of the best wireframe and mockup tools for your website are really brilliant in their own way, however not at all applicable for completing your prototyping assignments. Also, most customer needs and expectations for getting robust prototyping services evolve in 2019, so do the specialized software solutions. All you need to do is to choose between many tools and find the best option for fitting your business goals.

Canva

It is mainly for custom cardboard boxes

This is one of the simplest photo editing tools.

All you have to do is drag and drop your photos by selecting the appropriate function from a wide range of functions and you're done!

Be Funky

This is similar to Canvas’s tool used for Custom Packaging.

The difference is that Be Funky has proven itself in the field of creating high-quality photo collages.
Unsplash

Unsplash is not exclusively a photo manipulation tool.
It is one of the best photo libraries online. Unsplash only offers high-quality photos and they are all available for free commercial use. They can be used as design elements in patterns on boxes.

Recite

In Recite, you can create images with beautifully embellished quotes.

There are many ready-to-use templates in the app.
Pixomatic Taking a good picture is not easy!
Pixomatic is a solution that helps in the fight against unnecessary details.
The application allows you to blend background elements in a photo, like cut out certain parts of the image and paste in each other. It’s a simple application, perfect for quick photo editing before using it on a project.

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