Great list of free UX tools

Here's a great of free UX tools from UXforthemasses that's worth sharing.

While they do list some free prototyping tools my experience of them are not great. It's definitely worth spending the money on Axure or something similar. At some point in the past I tried Serena Composer but it was not that easy to pick up quickly and fairly heavy duty for most projects.

From their categories my favourites which I use most are:

Wireframing and prototyping - a pencil obviously but also Axure (although I am wondering about digging out an old copy of Dreamweaver to see if that's worth thinking about for prototyping with sometimes)

Annotation tools - protonotes as it can be integrated with Axure and doesn't need any browser plugins.

Lorem generator - personally I think Lorem should be removed from all ux and design as much as possible. It saves time early on, but it always catches up with you at some stage.

Screengrabbing - I'm a Fireshot fan

Usability testing - I haven't used it much so far but Loop11 is well worth a try.

I'm always looking for new ways to do things and am going to give Realizer an app prototyper a try soon.