Pencil/paper although I upgraded" to whiteboard/dry erase recently would like to have a digital drawing tablet though cough* surface studio haha! Something like a wacom would be nice.
There's that Latin or French thing... For sample paragraphs forget what it's called. Starts with a couple phrases, ellipsis, but it expands to a whole paragraph or more.
I've recently taken a Udacity course "Intro to the Design of Everyday Things"[0] and jotted down a preliminary summary[1].
Here are some of the tools they listed:
+ Hybrid paper/digital tools to animate paper pictures:
* Apple Keynote
* MS PowerPoint
* Google Presentation
* http://keynotopia.com/guides/
+ HTML5 prototypes:
- http://www.adobe.com/products/edge-animate.html
- https://www.google.com/webdesigner/
+ Misc:
- http://www.usabilitycounts.com/2012/08/30/four-ways-to-break...
- https://www.interaction-design.org/
[0]: https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-the-design-of-everyd...
[1]: https://github.com/jhadjar/Notes/blob/master/Design/Intro%20...
Balsamiq Mockups is great for prototyping/mockups: https://balsamiq.com
For random data, you can use something like https://www.mockaroo.com
http://draw.io is free and is absolutely brilliant. It is one of my favorite tools, it helps me to do all kinds of thinking, and it is extremely good at mockups as well.
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It can also be used as a prototyping tool, with the ability to link canvases (pages). Price aside, the one thing that I dislike about i Rise is the user interface.
I have been using Balsamiq for a long time, you can make something presentable very fast and with very little effort : https://balsamiq.com
I have also used Moqups, which offers also a simple solution but in the browser: https://moqups.com/
For UI data:
- Avatars : http://pravatar.cc/
- Placeholder images : https://placehold.it/
- Random names and user data : https://randomuser.me/
- Arabic names (right-to-left): https://raed.tn/php/tounsi/random/