Advantages and disadvantages of commonly used ui design software

At present, most of the familiar design and production software are photoshop, illustrator, fireworks, after effects, flash, indesign, dreamweaver, premiere, hand-drawing and so on.

PSphotoshop

Photoshop is not a simple image editing software, its application fields involve images, graphics, texts, videos, publishing and other aspects, and it is very extensive. Its common applications mainly include: graphic design, photo restoration, advertising photography, image creativity, artistic writing, web page production, post-decoration of architectural renderings, painting, drawing or processing three-dimensional stickers, wedding photo design, visual creativity, icon production, interface design and so on. Film and television post-production and two-dimensional animation production before the project have also been applied.

Advantages: The mainstream design tools have powerful image processing and color matching functions, and are the best choice for designing icons and interfaces. No matter what position a designer holds, it is a necessary software skill. After skilled use, it is not a problem to draw 3D with strong texture effect.

Disadvantages: need to design according to size, unable to draw vector graphics, and weak typesetting function.

Full-layer press

It is a professional vector drawing tool launched by ADOBE Company in the United States, and it is the industry standard vector illustration software for publishing, multimedia and network images. Powerful functions and simple interface design style provide high precision and control for line drawing, which is suitable for any small design to large complex projects. At present, it has occupied most of the global vector editing software. According to incomplete statistics, 97% of designers in the world are using Illustrator for artistic design, especially the application of Post technology based on Adobe patents. Illustrator has completely occupied the field of professional printing and publishing.

Advantages: powerful vector drawing design tool, very suitable for drawing logo, posters, etc. Icons and interface functions are equally excellent, and the output is a vector diagram, which can be enlarged and reduced according to different sizes. Similarly, interactive sketches can be designed with AI without a third-party sketch design tool. Using proficiency to realize 3D stress-free strong texture. The typesetting function is more powerful.

Disadvantages: the image processing is zero, the filter function is poor, it is much more difficult to handle high-quality interfaces and icons than PS and other tools, and it is more painful to change from print size to pixel size.

Ex post facto effect

AE draws lessons from the success of many excellent software, and promotes the video special effects synthesis to a new height: the introduction of Photoshop middle layer enables AE to control multi-layer synthetic images and produce seamless synthetic effects; The introduction of key frames and paths enables us to easily control advanced two-dimensional animation; Efficient video processing system ensures high-quality video output; Dazzling stunt system, let AE realize all the creativity of users; AE also retains Adobe's excellent software compatibility.

Advantages: Powerful video special effects and interactive drama can easily realize interactive animation and special effects on the interface, and the communication cost with developers is greatly reduced. At the same time, Li Wei can speak freely with visual pictures. At the same time, you can learn AE to make videos and add special effects.

Disadvantages: I can't design interfaces, icons and draw graphics, but only do interactive effects and video processing.

Fw fireworks

Adobe FireworksCS3 is an ideal tool for creating and optimizing Web images and quickly prototyping Websites and web interfaces, which can speed up web design and development. It not only has the flexibility of editing vector graphics and bitmap images, but also provides a general pre-built resource library, and can be integrated with Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Illustrator CS3, Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 and Adobe Flash CS3 in a time-saving way. Quickly convert a design into a model in Fireworks, or take advantage of other resources in Illustrator, Photoshop and Flash. Then put it directly into Dreamweaver CS3 for easy development and deployment.

Advantages: Web design tools, early Web design tools, cutting artifacts. He is also good at drawing graphics and interfaces, and is one of the three musketeers in web design.

Disadvantages: If you are not an old user, learning is not recommended. Its function has been gradually replaced by PS and AI, and it has faded out of this era.

CoreDraw

CorelDRAWGraphicsSuite is a graphic design software of Corel Company in Canada. This software is a vector graphics production tool software produced by Corel Company. This graphic tool provides designers with many functions, such as vector animation, page design, website production, bitmap editing, webpage animation and so on. It contains two drawing applications: one for vector drawing and page design, and the other for image editing. This combination of drawing software brings powerful interactive tools for users, which enables users to create various dynamic special effects and real-time effects of dot matrix images in simple operations-without losing their current work.

CoreDraw's omni-directional design and web page function can be integrated into the user's existing design scheme, which is full of flexibility. The intelligent drawing tool and new dynamic wizard provided by the software can fully reduce the operation difficulty of users, make users create the size and position of objects more easily and accurately, reduce the click steps and save design time.

Advantages: It integrates AI and ID, is a vector drawing design tool, and has powerful typesetting function. This tool is still used in most areas, which is easy to understand and can efficiently import files of various software tools of adobe.

Disadvantages: This tool is controversial. Small and medium-sized companies still use it, but big Internet companies don't. Although it has many functions, it does not mean that it is very cutting-edge. So, if you set a higher goal, you can give up this software!

FLflash

Advantages: Vector animation is a sharp weapon, and making vector animation is simple and convenient. By learning advanced languages, you can design colorful interactive websites. The most popular cool interactive websites in the early years were all embedded in flash. You can also make cartoons. Designing cartoon icons is simple and quick.

Disadvantages: UI design features are few, interface design is relatively difficult, and graphics processing effect is poor. Linguistics is advanced and not suitable for UI designers.

Id design

Advantages: typesetting artifacts, magazines, books, newspapers and other typesetting are fast and convenient, simple and easy to use, and can draw simple vector graphics.

Disadvantages: It is mainly a tool for graphic designers, and it is not recommended for designers (UI) who are not engaged in a lot of typesetting work to learn.

DWdreamweaver

Advantages: designing web tools, writing viewing codes, designing web pages, embedding flash, managing website background and drawing graphics are convenient and quick.

Disadvantages: it is mainly a web design tool, which is not recommended for UI designers to learn. Moreover, UI designers have low requirements for code.

Premil

Advantages: The video editing tool is powerful and can edit movies, short films and videos. They became popular as spoof software early in the morning, and their important duty is to edit movies.

Disadvantages: pure video media, not a drawing tool.

sketch

Advantages: Recently, particularly popular design tools have been used and integrated by major companies at home and abroad. For the app application interface, it is definitely a sharp weapon, convenient and fast, powerful, without many unnecessary functions. Graphic icons are faster and more convenient.

Disadvantages: Icons in simulacra style are relatively unsuitable, and at this stage, there is only Apple system, and there is no Microsoft system for the time being. In addition to designing the app interface, other functions are very weak.

hand paint

Advantages: Yes, this is a very good skill. As long as you have a strong artistic foundation and use various brush tools, you can also "design" many beautiful icon interfaces and show them to users through scanning, with different styles.

Disadvantages: Of course, in China, only a few people have entered the ranks of Internet UI designers with this skill, which is very good for practicing basic skills!

3dmax

Advantages: It is absolutely controversial to mention this 3D software. No one expected that using 3D as an icon would become the mainstream. I have to say that the icon made by 3D is fast, convenient and powerful in both texture and light and shadow. Perhaps the design of one hour has completely exceeded the ps of 10 hour.

Disadvantages: the strength lies in the quasi-physical design, poor interface design, not as easy to use as the previous software. After all, 2D and 3D are still two levels.