The Product Design Tech Stack - 2025

A list of all the tools, websites and software we recommend for product designers for seamlessness, organisation and optimising productivity!

Hey 👋🏼 let’s start the new year with a bang and work towards a more structured and planned 2025.

Here is a list of several tools, extensions, plugins, and software I recommend for Product Design and UX/UI - handpicked by designers across top companies globally!

If you have any suggestions or requests, let me know in the comments.

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🔎 User Research

• UserTesting (₹₹) - A complete user research suite for both moderated and unmoderated testing.

• Dovetail - Recruit users and turn customer conversations and feedback into actionable insights.

💬 Transcripts

• Otter.ai - An AI assistant that transcribes live across multiple platforms, provide automated summaries and action items.

🫱🏼‍🫲🏽 Collaboration

• Slack - Use Slack to work with teams, exchange quick feedback, give context on what you are working on and share updates.

📌 Whiteboarding

• Figjam (₹) - A great whiteboarding option with a simple interface allowing for multiple participants and cross-team collaboration.

• Miro ($$) - Offers several advanced capabilities and integrations for brainstorming and whiteboarding.

✏️ UX Writing

• Grammarly - A tool to fix basic grammar and syntax in your writing.

• ChatGPT - Generate or improve copy for your concept, strategy and product.

Tip: Use Grammarly only to improve your content and ChatGPT to generate new content.

👀 Inspiration

• Mobbin (₹) - An app screenshot and flow gallery for mobile and consumer-facing apps.

• Appshots (₹) - A mobile and web design library with in-depth flows.

🎨 Colour

• Coolors - Generate new colour palettes for visual design.

• UI Colors - Colour shade generator.

🎥 Animation

• LottieFiles - Template animations and the ability to create your own from Figma.

• Rive - Great tool for interactive, lightweight animations.

🏞️ Photography

• Unsplash - The most popular free stock photo gallery.

🎨 Design

• Figma - The only tool you need for end to end wireframing and product design.

⏺️ Icons

• Phosphor - One of the largest free icon libraries out there.

• SF Symbols - Free icon library by Apple.
  Note: Available only on Mac

• Noun Project - Icon and photo library.

• Material Icons - Free icon library by Google.

📱Prototyping

• Figma - Use Figma for all standard prototyping and basic interactions.

📖 Documentation

• Notion - Create a repository of your organisation or team, playbooks, repositories and templates for simplification. An powerhouse, customisable and easy to use interface.

• ClickUp - Centralised project-related organisation in one place, allowing for customisation and collaboration.

🖥️ Demos & Hand-offs

• Loom - Use Loom to record video walkthroughs of your work or give detailed feedback to designers or engineers.

• Screen Studio (₹) - Record professional-looking video walkthroughs of your product.
  Note: Available only on Mac

💾 Storage

• Playbook - Cloud based storage system to store, organise, collaborate and share projects.
  Tip: Upload your portfolio to get 4TB free.

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