Tools for the designer

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Material for graphics and UX designers. Programs and tools that will facilitate work and even open new opportunities for the implementation of projects. Tested in practice by the WAYUP team

Ideally, the designer only creates projects and draws, but in real life it does not happen. There are also a lot of tasks in addition to the main direction, from which you can not get away.

Especially if you work on freelancing - here you definitely need to be a universal soldier and be able to do a lot in addition to your specialty. At a minimum, you will encounter the study of the audience, as a maximum - with the whole management of the team.

What to do to adequately accept these challenges? Have a selection of diverse tools that will be useful in professional field.

Our collection will help to solve both standard tasks of the designer and management issues.
Standard tasks

Selection of color, icons, fonts - this shopify website design  is a routine, without which it is impossible. There are many options for implementing these tasks. The visited designer is already familiar with most of these services, and for a beginner, the list can be a real treasure:

    Animista is a huge selection of CSS-animation with easy setting up directions, techniques and other parameters. You choose a slide or turn, customizing your requirements, and at the end you generate the code of the finished animation.

    RightFont is an application for Mac to work with fonts. Allows you to access fonts directly from their creators, such as TypeKit and Google Fonts. You can select fonts by picture. A big base that has everything.



    Wordmark and What the Font perform the same functions, but work on Windows, so cool apps don’t just reach apple adherents.

    Coolors.co is a color palette generator. You can create new combinations at your discretion and according to the requirements of the project, and you can look at ready-made popular solutions and choose the most interesting ones. It is also worth a look at the Flat UI Colors for this purpose.

    Icons8 - literally a million different icons for all directions and in different resolutions. Formats PNG, SVG, PDF. There are other usefulness there – a stock of photos, illustrations, music, etc. Here you can find packs of icons for all occasions. But making your own design is always more valuable, and sometimes just necessary when the project has its own specifics. How to make cool icons yourself look here: “Creating a creative set of icons.”

    CSS Doodle – the service helps to create a background picture using CSS-styles and DIV grids. It is very interesting to manage the shapes in the grid and add animation, change the appearance and color of the figures. The site clearly shows how to use the service and there are excellent examples.