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* [https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/ WebAIM Color Contrast Checker] is there to make sure your colors have accessible levels of contrast.
* [https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/ WebAIM Color Contrast Checker] is there to make sure your colors have accessible levels of contrast.


See [[Colorblindness]] for additional color tools.
See [[Colorblindness]] for additional color tools and [[:Category: Cascading Style Sheets]] for CSS tools that make gradients and stripes and the like easier.


== Code ==
== Code ==

Revision as of 19:51, 15 May 2018

Design tools I love to use. And by "love" I mean I choose these over the alternatives every time.

Calculators

CSS

See Category: Cascading Style Sheets

Color

See Colorblindness for additional color tools and Category: Cascading Style Sheets for CSS tools that make gradients and stripes and the like easier.

Code

  • CanIUse tells you which browsers support the HTML/CSS/JS capabilities you want to use, so you can plan accordingly.

Converters

  • Pandoc is a command-line tool for converting from one file format (such as HTML) to another (such as MediaWiki)

Deliverables

  • Sketch is my preferred wireframing tool. That's a big deal, because I thought I'd probably wireframe in Photoshop or Visio (!!) for my whole career.
  • Omnigraffle is my preferred every-other-diagram too. I do process flows, site maps, and everything else under the sun in it for work. For home I do everything from timelines (it's kind of hard for timelines) to sketches of the new deck, to family trees or "what is that neighbor's name?" maps.

Time Management

  • Asana is my preferred to-do / agile / kanban board. (It does both multi-column boards *and* plain lists.) It also will timeline things that have dates on them. I currently use it to track both my work responsibilities (through work boards that are funded) and my writing/fiction responsibilities (through a free board). When my Asana boards are up to date I feel like I have some bit of control over my life.

UX Thinking

  • Design Principles is an ongoing and growing list of design principles and heuristics I use to validate my work

Wiki

Pages in category "Tools"

The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.