111

different countries are represented in the survey results.

UX Designer vs Product Designer: Does it matter? Or is the work the only thing that matters? These two titles are almost exactly even in the results (just like in previous years).

24%

of respondents do some amount of design work on Windows.

With Figma's popularity, it's impressive to see Miro holding onto the top spot. This is likely related to its very high satisfaction rating of

4.3

Respondents using Figma seem to still find a lot of value in it for whiteboarding, despite FigJam being free this year.

18%

of people use the same tool for UI design and whiteboarding (26% last year). This market has diversified.

95%

of respondents report that they design interfaces with digital tools. It's the most popular category.

Respondents using Figma and Framer are both highly satisfied with average scores of

4.7

77%

of all respondents use Figma for UI design.

81%

of respondents who use Figma for UI Design also primarily use it for Prototyping.

Respondents seem to turn to ProtoPie, Framer, and Principle when they need more robust prototyping capabilities (seen above as "secondary" tools).

Respondents using ProtoPie for prototyping are highly satisfied with a score of

4.6

Zeplin, InVision, and Abstract are the primary players in this category that are not UI design tools themselves.

As more UI design tools natively integrate handoff into their feature set, this category has narrowed over time.

Many respondents included tools where they share the designs, such as Notion, Jira, or Confluence (you can dig into the raw data to see more).

The category encapsulates a lot of functionality: creating the design system components, writing the documentation, and sharing it with others. It's worth a look into the raw data to see the wide spread of tools (as you'll notice the long tail of "Other" tools in the graph).

73%

of respondents who work with a Design System use Figma to manage it in some way.

It's exciting to see tools originally meant for developers, like Storybook, rank highly in this category.

65%

of respondents are managing files and versions with software.

Figma has almost entirely removed the need for extra tools. Google Drive is next most popular, presumably to manage other kinds of assets (like videos, graphics, etc.).

The most highly rated tools are git-based developer tools like Github, Bitbucket, and Gitlab.

73%

of responses are for general video conferencing software.

Satisfaction ratings are much higher for proper user testing tools like Useberry and Maze than they are for general-purpose video conferencing tools.

24%

of respondents surprisingly reported they don't do any user testing (even though 95% of respondents reported that they design interfaces).

The unusually large "Other" bar on the graph above is due to several dozen tools with only 1 or 2 votes, and very few responses in this category overall.

9%

of respondents reported using software to recruit research participants. This is a new category, so we weren't sure what to expect.

Satisfaction scores in this category are fairly low, with an average of

3.5

38%

of respondents work with a research repository of some kind.

Most respondents are using generic knowledge base tools such as Notion, Confluence, and Google Drive.

While not as commonly used, respondents using Dovetail are the most satisfied with a score of

4.2

We can't fit all the responses into one graph, but we highly recommend checking out the raw data for this category.

It's always fun to see designers interested in 3D design tools like Blender and Spline.

275

respondents already using Figma said they were excited for it next year. We think they really like Figma.