Category:Tools

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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

Favorites

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

Other tools

  • Pictaculous generates color palettes based on a photograph you upload.
  • Color Combo Tester lets you put a few columns of colors next to each other while fiddling with a palette

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.

Stock Photography

Diversity-aware stock photography

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

Wiki

Pages in category "Tools"

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