Designers: Tools to add productivity and freshness to your work

Designers: Tools to add productivity and freshness to your work

Being a designer myself, I know and understand what it takes for a fellow designer to go through the creative process and deliver as per the client’s specs. You need all the peace of your mind to churn out the next best design from your stable.

Everything in that creative thought process remained same except the tools which designers now use to lessen the impact of other more general things, which indirectly or directly affect them, and help them point their focus to creative thinking.

Nowadays, there’re many new and powerful tools out there for designers to increase their productivity and help them with their thought process viz. Prototyping tools, Visual online collaborations, To-Do lists, Invoicing et al.

Here, presenting you, the Productivity-enhancement tools for designers:

Wunderlist
Wunderlist is an easy way to manage and share your daily to-do lists. Whether you’re planning an overseas adventure, sharing a shopping list with a loved one, or simply keeping track of your daily to-dos, Wunderlist is here to help you get things done.

 

 

Box
Share, access and manage your files online, from any device: Android, desktop, laptop, iPad, iPhone, Blackberry – you name it.

 

Conceptboard
Share and discuss your ideas, documents and concepts visually in one place rather than exchanging endless e-mail attachments. Conceptboard is an app for visual online collaboration.

 

deviantART muro
Providing superior function, speed, and flexibility compared to other Web-based drawing applications, deviantART muro is offered free to everyone.

 

WeVideo
WeVideo makes video editing easy for everyone and accessible from anywhere.

 

Fluid UI
Fluid UI is a mobile app prototyping tool. It is fast, user friendly and very intuitive. Create everything from low fidelity wireframes to high fidelity prototypes. Rapidly see and interact with them on a mobile device to aid testing and design.

Fluid

 

Verify
Verify is the fastest way to collect and analyze user feedback on screens or mocks.

 

Dribbble
Dribbble is show and tell for designers.

 

Socket
Create, send, and manage quotes onlineSocket is easy to use, online quoting software that saves time by automating your sales quotes.

In this post, I have covered most aspects of productivity-related tools but there may have been some which might have been left out. If so, let me know in comments and I will add them to the list, if appropriate.

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