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Design tools I love to use. And by "love" I mean I choose these over the alternatives every time.
Animation
- EZGif helps you rip and optimize animated GIFs.
- After Effects allows you to do animations and other work.
Business
The shit that keeps us all working together smoothly....
- Doodle lets everyone weigh in on what time the meeting / event / Thanksgiving is
- Every Time Zone shows all the time zones lined up visually so you can see what you're scheduling
Calculators
- PX to EM converts pixels to Ems
- Letter Count lets you paste in a string and find out how many characters it is.
Code
- CanIUse tells you which browsers support the HTML/CSS/JS capabilities you want to use, so you can plan accordingly.
Color
- Hex-to-RGB and RGB-to-Hex are quick color converters
- Paletton makes building a color palette easier, especially since it includes colorblindness tools
- WebAIM Color Contrast Checker is there to make sure your colors have accessible levels of contrast.
See Category:Color and Colorblindness for additional color tools and Category: Cascading Style Sheets for CSS tools that make gradients and stripes and the like easier.
Content Generators
For image generators see Stock Photography below.
- Lorem Ipsum generator - the original content generator, with options for any length and layout of information.
- Honest Ipsum when someone complains about Latin, you put in dummy text that says "hello I am dummy text"
- Doggo Ipsum for when you'd like your dummy text to
- Behind the Name: Random Name Generator - my favorite tool for generating persona names
- Online GUID / UUID Generator for more 128-bit globally unique identifiers (GUIDs) or universally unique identifiers (UUIDs)
- Random String Generator for when you need GUIDs and such.
Converters
- Pandoc is a command-line tool for converting from one file format (such as HTML) to another (such as MediaWiki)
CSS
See Category: Cascading Style Sheets
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.
- Figma is a close second.
- Omnigraffle is my preferred every-other-diagram tool. I do process flows, site maps, occasionally wireframes, 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.
- Optimal Workshop is my preferred tool for card sorts.
- Nobody can avoid Photoshop or Illustrator, and I prefer Dreamweaver for code.
- I do a lot of storyboarding and design comics with the images from Design Comics
- UXpressia is the tool all the researchers in my life are talking about for doing journey maps.
Google Apps
- Adding a new line in cells or formulas in Google Sheets by Corey Bustos on Spreadsheet Class
- Concatenate function for merging the strings of two or more cells together by Google.
Jira
- How to create Jira issues from Excel files by Bogdan Gorka on the Atlassian community.
Iconography
- SVGOMG for everything you want to do to streamline SVGs
- Blobmaker for making colorful blobs and downloading them as SVGs.
Social Media
- Thread Reader - for "unrolling" Twitter threads and making them easier to read
Stock Photography
Diversity-aware stock photography
- Stock photos of people with disabilities - by Dennis at WebAxe
- Tonl
- Where to find free stock photos with people of color by Camille Eddy
- WOCinTech on Flickr
- Age-Positive Image Library by the Centre for Ageing Better
Stock photo generators
- Placebear - my favorite photo generator, with big colorful bears
- Lorem Pixel
Other stock photo sources
- Morguefile - one of the earliest photo sources I’ve used, with lots of high-res photos.
- Pexels
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.
- Every Time Zone shows a graphic display of what time it is where you and and where it is everywhere else, so it's easier to plan meetings and such
- Doodle is my current go-to for "I need these 8 distributed people to figure out when we're going to do a thing" whether it's a meeting across companies or a family picnic
Typography
- Type Scale lets you choose a typographical scale for your content headers.
UX Thinking
- Category:Design Principles is an ongoing and growing list of design principles and heuristics I use to validate my work
Wiki
- EmbedVideo Extension lets me embed videos in this here wiki.
Writing
See Category: Writing for writing tools.
Wordpress
Pages in category "Tools"
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