It’s one of the first tools to make this process easy, yet powerful. You do need Sketch, Figma or Adobe XD to use it though.

First click analysis tool to test wireframes and designs for effectiveness and clarity. Helps identify information architecture and navigation improvements fast!

Even though it was last updated in 2015, this is a great resource for UX designers in 70 countries to benchmark their salaries (and ask for raises, or move to Switzerland which has some of the highest salaries in our profession).

An amazing visual insight of how users interact with your site or app. Helps you quickly understand and gain insight into the qualitative side of the experience of users on your site or app. If you’re getting started, there’s a generous free plan too.

We often find ourselves reading the UX Tools blog, which has some interesting reads on all things UX. Also has a handy comparison table highlighting key features in various design and prototyping tools. The fact that it’s run by a Senior UX designer from diagramming app, Lucid Chart, doesn’t hurt either.

While Primer might seem out of place in this collection of ‘UX Tools’, its perhaps one of the most relevant ones to help keep us UX designers in tune with other aspects of our product or business. A few minutes of Primer each week has given us a better, more rounded perspective on our product and role.

UX Power Tools is one of our favourite resources available for Sketch. It’s a collection of well thought out, beautifully assembled style guides for Sketch users. With hundreds of easy to edit symbols and objects available, it’s likely one of the most comprehensive Sketch resources available. There’s even a free preview you can download to see if it works for you. Their content on Tiny Trends makes for interesting reading too.

It’s an open-source, free to use, fairly exhaustive checklist of good UX things to consider whether you’re new to planning sites or apps, or experienced as a UX designer.

Samuel Hulick, probably the most well known ‘onboarding expert’ breaks down the onboarding flow of popular brands’ apps and sites. Often going deeper into the flow for key actions as well. Insightful and invaluable not just for us designers, but for anyone managing a product.

Very informative and useful material to read. Currently, only a small lists of reading material but still very useful for any UX designer. It’s worth checking it out.

We use Hotjar to help us uncover some UX/UI issues on pages on various web sites; gives a better qualitative view behind website user flow.