INTRODUCTION / METHODOLOGY
The 2024 Design Tools Survey collected responses from 2,220 designers between November 2024 and January 2025, covering nine tool categories:
UI Design
Basic Prototyping
Advanced Prototyping
Digital Whiteboarding
Design Systems Management
User Testing
Research Recruiting
Research Repositories
Portfolio Building
Participants were recruited from UX Tools’ audience:
1M+ social followers (Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, LinkedIn, Threads)
95K newsletter subscribers
450K annual website visitors
No compensation was offered. Responses that were >80% incomplete or showed clear low-effort patterns were excluded.
Tools were standardized using a verified dictionary
Only tools with ≥0.1% usage are shown in the report
Data was cleaned and restructured into clear categories for accuracy and comparison
To better reflect real-world design contexts, we grouped respondents into seven segments:
Corporate Designers (1000+ employees)
Growth Company Designers (101-1000 employees)
Startup Designers (2-100 employees)
Agency Designers (design agencies/consultancies)
Independent/Solo Designers (freelancers, contractors, or solo in-house)
Design Educators/Researchers
Design Students
This report is independent and sponsor-supported (Framer, Maze, Dovetail, Mobbin, UserTesting). Sponsors had no input on the survey questions or results.