Ask Inktrap: What tools and tech do you use?
Welcome to Ask Inktrap, a series where we answer real or hypothetical questions about our process, the work we do and our culture. Created to give you a little insight into what we do.
Q: What tools and technologies do you rely on most when designing and developing your products?
A: Our go-to tools at the start of every project are the classic whiteboard and markers. By starting away from the computer, we can be distraction-free and easily get into a problem-solving mindset.
A: Once we’ve got an outline of the product, we’ll jump into Sketch to create higher fidelity wireframes and build upon these to design the interface. Almost everything we design eventually gets exported to InVision so that we can test the product as an interactive prototype.
For the front-end build, we often use Twig, Sass and ES6, all compiled with Gulp. For more complex projects, where we’re building directly against an API, we lean on JavaScript frameworks like React, Gatsby and Node.js. We’re also big fans of Craft CMS for creating marketing sites and simple products. Aside from these off-the-shelf frameworks, we’ve created some of our own tools, like Baseline (our development boilerplate) and Glyph (our design systems library).
— The Inktrap Team
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