UXDD - UX Driven Design

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/mt619988.aspx
https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/ux-driven-software-design/table-of-contents

Excerpts:

"puts UX at the foundation of the entire design process."

"From a functional perspective, you can successfully build a working system regardless of whether you start the design effort from the bottom (say, from the persistence model) or the top (say, from presentation layer and view model). From a UX perspective, you can only be successful if you start designing from presentation and view models and build everything else, including the back-end stack, from there."

 "I learned from UX experts that requirements are better actively generated through evidence-based discussion than passively infer­red via interviews"

"Very few tasks are entirely accomplished through a single screen that you can summarize effectively to a wireframe. Just looking into the wireframe of a screen may not be enough to spot possible bottle­necks of the process implementation. Concatenating screens in a storyboard is a much better idea. In this regard, the biggest challenge I see is finding the tools to build storyboards."

 "... simply outsourcing the presentation layer to a team of UX experts isn’t enough. The presentation layer today is the most important part of a system and must result from the combined effort of solution architects, UX architects and customers. This must be the first step and ideally you move on only when the customer signs off on the presentation."

Figure 2 Tools for Quick and Effective UI Prototyping

Tool	URL
Axure	axure.com
Balsamiq	balsamiq.com
Indigo Studio	infragistics.com/products/indigo-studio
JustInMind	justinmind.com
UXPin	uxpin.com

Not sure why https://www.invisionapp.com/ was not mentioned in his article above.
It is being used by designers in our company and it seems to be pretty good.