Tools

Brainstorm & Research

Whiteboard, map flows, and turn raw research into insight — now with AI synthesis built in.

Miro

Collaborative whiteboard for research, journey maps, and story mapping. Miro AI generates diagrams, clusters sticky notes, and summarizes boards.

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FigJam

Figma's online whiteboard for team ideation. Jambot and built-in AI help brainstorm, organize, and summarize a session.

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Dovetail

AI-powered research repository that transcribes interviews, auto-tags themes, and surfaces insights across every study in one place.

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Mural

Visual collaboration space for workshops, affinity mapping, and design sprints, with AI clustering and summaries.

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Perspective AI

AI-moderated research platform where an AI interviewer runs hundreds of parallel voice and text conversations, probes with follow-ups, then auto-synthesizes themes and quotes into a summary.

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HeyMarvin

AI-native research repository that transcribes interviews and runs multi-agent searches across your entire study corpus to synthesize answers with cited participant quotes.

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Storyflow

AI-native infinite-canvas whiteboard whose AI reads your whole canvas and linked files, turning rough notes, PDFs, and spreadsheets into kanbans, mind maps, and storyboards from one prompt.

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User Interviews

Participant recruitment from a vetted panel or from your own users, with screening, scheduling and incentives handled. Removes the bottleneck that stops most research before it starts.

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Kimi

Moonshot AI's assistant, built around a very long context window. Reads a whole set of interview transcripts, a research deck or a competitor audit in one pass instead of in chunks.

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Manus

Agent that plans and runs multi-step browser and file work, returning finished documents rather than chat replies. Suited to competitive teardowns and desk research.

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AI Design & Prototyping

Go from a prompt or a sketch to editable UI — the fastest-moving corner of the toolbox.

Figma

The industry-standard interface design and prototyping tool. Figma AI and Figma Make add layout generation, first drafts, and prompt-to-design.

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Claude Design

Anthropic's prompt-to-prototype tool: describe a screen and refine it conversationally on a live canvas. It learns your codebase and design system, then hands the build off to Claude Code.

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Uizard

Turns text prompts, screenshots, and hand-drawn sketches into editable wireframes and UI in seconds.

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Google Stitch

Google Labs' AI UI designer (formerly Galileo AI). Turns prompts, screenshots, and sketches into editable mobile and web designs plus front-end code, powered by Gemini.

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Visily

AI wireframing that converts text, screenshots, and sketches into clean, editable mockups — no design skills required.

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Relume

AI site-builder that generates full sitemaps and wireframes from a prompt, ready to export to Figma or Webflow.

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Penpot

Open-source, design-and-code interface tool that works natively with web standards — a free, self-hostable alternative.

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Magic Patterns

AI design tool that turns a prompt, screenshot, or live UI into editable designs and React/TypeScript code, learning your design system so output stays on-brand.

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UX Pilot

AI UX tool that generates wireframes and consistent multi-screen flows from text prompts, with bidirectional Figma integration, predictive heatmaps, and HTML/CSS export.

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Recraft

Generates and edits real SVG vectors, icons and illustrations with reusable style controls. Covers the asset work that UI generators leave out.

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Stark

Accessibility suite for Figma and the browser: contrast checks, vision simulation, alt text and focus-order annotation. Catches WCAG problems while the design is still editable.

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zeroheight

Design system documentation that pulls components and tokens from Figma and drafts the written guidance with AI. Keeps the part of a system that goes stale first.

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Usability Testing & Analytics

Validate with real users and let AI surface exactly where they struggle.

Maze

Rapid unmoderated user testing with AI-generated follow-up questions, automated reports, and AI participant recruiting.

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Lyssna

Formerly UsabilityHub: five-second tests, preference tests, and surveys run against a large participant panel.

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Hotjar

Heatmaps, session recordings, and on-site feedback that show how people actually move through your product.

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UserTesting

Video-based feedback from targeted users, with AI that summarizes sessions and highlights the key moments.

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Attention Insight

AI that predicts where users will look before launch, generating heatmaps from a design with no live traffic needed.

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Userology

AI moderator that runs task-based usability sessions on live products or Figma prototypes across web and mobile, prompts think-aloud, and reports metrics like completion rate and time-on-task.

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Outset

AI-moderated testing platform that scales usability and prototype studies across web and mobile, follows up dynamically when users hesitate, and compiles recordings and themes into instant reports.

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Optimal Workshop

Card sorting, tree testing and first-click studies for information architecture, with AI theming of open-text answers. Tests navigation labels before anything is designed.

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Microsoft Clarity

Free session replay and heatmaps with rage-click, dead-click and scroll-depth signals, plus AI summaries of recordings. Shows where real users struggle on a shipped design.

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PostHog

Open-source product analytics with session replay, funnels, feature flags and experiments. Self-hostable, so behavioural data can stay on your own infrastructure.

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UX Writing & Content

Draft microcopy, synthesize research, and pressure-test ideas with AI assistants.

Claude

Anthropic's AI assistant, strong at long-context writing, design critique, and turning messy notes into structured analysis.

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ChatGPT

OpenAI's assistant for drafting UX copy, provisional personas, interview scripts, and research synthesis.

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Grammarly

AI writing assistant that keeps product copy clear, consistent, and on-tone across an interface.

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Jasper

AI content platform for producing on-brand marketing and product copy at scale, with brand-voice controls.

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Ditto

Product-copy system whose AI drafts and edits microcopy grounded in your Figma designs and style-guide rules, then syncs the words from design into production code.

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Frontitude

AI UX-writing copilot inside Figma that generates on-brand, character-limit-aware button, error, and empty-state copy and reviews designs against your content guidelines.

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Mistral Vibe

Mistral's assistant, formerly Le Chat, with web search and connectors to work tools. A European-hosted option for teams with EU data-residency rules.

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Lokalise

Localisation platform for product strings, with a Figma plugin that moves copy between design and code. Shows translated text in the design before anyone builds it.

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DeepL Write

Rewrites and corrects text with tone and style controls, built on DeepL's translation models. Practical for non-native teams tightening UI strings and research write-ups.

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Web & App Builders

Ship real, responsive products — increasingly straight from a prompt.

Webflow

Visual development for production websites with a real CMS, clean semantic output, and AI assists.

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Framer

Design-to-publish site builder with an AI page generator, CMS, and effortless responsive layouts.

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Lovable

Prompt-to-app builder that generates full-stack web apps you can refine visually and deploy.

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v0

Vercel's AI that generates production-ready React and Tailwind UI from prompts, screenshots, or Figma frames.

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Bolt

In-browser AI that builds, runs, and deploys full-stack apps from a plain description, editing the real code.

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Figma Make

Figma's prompt-to-app tool that turns text prompts or existing designs and components into working, responsive prototypes and web apps, with Supabase for auth and real data.

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Subframe

AI-native visual design tool built for code where every layer maps to production React and Tailwind, and design-system sync feeds components to agents like Cursor and Claude Code via MCP.

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Project Management

Keep the work organized without drowning in overhead.

Notion

All-in-one docs, wikis, and databases, with Notion AI for writing, summarizing, and querying your workspace.

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Linear

Fast, opinionated issue tracking and planning built for product teams, with AI triage and summaries.

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ClickUp

Tasks, docs, and goals in one workspace, with ClickUp Brain answering questions across your projects.

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Monday.com

Flexible work OS for planning and tracking projects across teams, with automations and AI blocks.

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Dart

AI-native project manager where you chat to create tasks, roadmaps, and reports, and assign AI agents to handle chores like subtasking, property-filling, and duplicate detection.

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Plane

AI-native, open-source Jira alternative combining projects, wiki, and assignable AI agents, with an intake layer that auto-sorts incoming design requests for triage.

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