14 Incredible New Tools & Apps for Designers & Creative People!
If you keep up with ListHunt you know that we publish an extremely successful list of new tools for founders and entrepreneurs each Saturday morning. We have a lot of fun with that and end up using about half of the tools we feature for the long term. But we always have wanted to expand this type of feature to provide tools for the entire startup team.
That is why from now on we will be publishing weekly lists for some of the team members. First we are starting with Designer Tools and will eventually go back to Tools for Developers in the near future. We know this does not cover the entire team but it is a good spot to start! Enjoy the second Designer Tools list and let us know what list we should do next to help your team!
UNLOST
Paul Jarvis & Jamie Varon
UNLOST was developed by two creatives, for other creatives who are stuck, because it’s something we’ve all struggled with. This isn’t a way to forever banish doubts, fears and negativity because that would never happen and hogwash to anyone who tells you otherwise. Instead, this course is a way to use those blocks and take action in spite of them. Because that’s how creativity thrives.
This isn’t about us preaching to you the “right” ways to get out of your own way. This course explores our own creative blocks, how we got through them, and how we continue to build professional careers off our art. The whole concept of the course is to give you time for self-discovery and self-examination, so that you can build lasting tools to find your creative voice anytime you lose it.
Freebiesjedi is a curated collection of high-quality icons, fonts, themes, PSD file, HTML templates, and other design resources from around the web. You will enjoy browsing through our meticulous collection of graphic resources! Plus they are free for both personal & commercial use.
Coolors 2
@coolors_co
Coolors is the super-fast color scheme generator that is already used every day by more than 500,000 creatives! Generate color schemes at lightspeed just by tapping on the screen. Just type in your colors to get nice matching color combinations instantly! Then you can browse thousands of popular palettes made by other cool creatives. Save your favorite in your account or copy, export or send via email.
LibreStock is the last stock photo website you will ever need. it aggregates all the high-quality public domain photographs in one searchable website.
Origami
Facebook Design // @facebookdesign
Origami is a free tool for designing modern user interfaces. Quickly put together a prototype, run it on your iPhone or iPad, iterate on it, and export code snippets your engineers can use. We created Origami to help us design and build many of our products at Facebook, including Instagram, Paper, Messenger, Slingshot, Rooms, and Groups. We’re excited to see what people make with it.
Webflow CMS
@webflowapp
Build custom, dynamic websites without writing code or managing databases. Just tell Webflow what content you’re building, whether it’s blog posts, portfolio pieces, recipes, or whatever — and customize its structure to fit your vision. Create completely custom designs around your content, with pixel-perfect variations for different devices and views. All without messing around with code.
Get the best of iOS & Mac inspiration in your inbox, weekly! Featuring the best apps, mockups, themes and more to get you in the mood to build an incredible new app. Plus it has a ton of freebies to get you started!
Fuse
Bent Stamnes // @fusetools
Fuse is the UX tool suite for app designers and developers. Create and update the look and feel for native apps in real time on multiple devices simultaneously. Fuse comes with visual tools that lets both designers and developers work efficiently, together. And we’re building even more. Additionally building great user experiences is an iterative process so we made sure you can instantly see the results of any change you make, on all your devices.
UX Map
@Humaneinterface
Create compelling UX documentation in no time. Annotate your prototype, map user journeys, visualize users interactions in great detail. UX Map is intended primarily for designers, but can also be an ideal tool for product managers, or anybody who is familiar with Axure RP and needs an ideal tool to document their design ideas.
Fontself
@fontself
Making a font can be a daunting task, requiring specific skill sets, dedicated tools and a lot of time to iterate. The Fontself extensions will also allow you to turn all of your original lettering into usable fonts, including colors, textures, alternates, ligatures, illustrated words, smileys, icons, or anything else you might come up with.
You can make, edit and export fonts in minutes without leaving your beloved Photoshop or Illustrator: the Fontself extension shows up as a new panel, as shown above, where you turn any shape or image into a font glyph. From here you can export your creations into regular font files. These fonts are then compatible to use on your computer, tablet or smartphone!
Snappa
@SnappaIO
Snappa helps digital marketers create highly engaging images in a snap. It’s the perfect graphic design tool for blog posts, social media, ad campaigns, and more. Our powerful graphic design tool lets you create highly engaging images without any help from a graphic designer. Snappa’s integrated platform makes it easier than ever to create high-converting images, then publish them directly to the web. Start boosting your engagement while saving time in the process.
Icons8 App features over 17,000 icons, pick your color, size, and format. Then drag it to Photoshop and you are done! The app stores all the Icons8 icons on your hard drive and these are available in any format, size, or color. The icons work with Photoshop, Sketch, Xcode, and, of course, you. We are almost positive that all of your icons needs are covered, but if you are missing an icon, order it, and we’ll do it for free.
Project Comet
@AdobeUX
Coming soon from Adobe, design and prototype websites and mobile apps faster than ever with Project Comet, the first all-in-one solution for UX designers. Take your UX designs from start to finish with the cross-platform app that lets you do it all — wireframing, visual design, interaction design, prototyping, previewing and sharing. And because it’s built from the ground up, Comet delivers innovative tools and breakthrough performance to help you design in record time.
Sketch Repo is a great place to discover Sketch App resources for your next design project. It helps designers find free, high-quality Sketch resources for their next project.
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