How does the magic happen? These tools play a key part!
Here are some of my favorite tools, as a graphic designer and UX / web designer.
Adobe XD: low-FI wireframes, high resolution design mock-ups
InDesign: reports and multi-page documents, brochures, postcards, sell sheets, signage
Illustrator: logos, illustrations, icon design, report figures & graphs, infographics
Photoshop: image prep, clipping paths, photo manipulation, colour correcting and adjusting images
Pencil & Paper: sketching out logo concepts, rough webpage wireframes, icon sketches, rough idea explorations
Google Workspace: team and client meetings in Google Meet, organizing my schedule in Google Calendar, Gmail, Google Drive for sharing assets
Pantone swatchbook: choosing print colours
Canon Pixma Pro-100: printing out samples before sending final print-ready files to clients and/or print shops
Calendly: scheduling meetings with clients, new leads, and team members
Trello: keeping projects organized
Adobe Fonts: fonts
Harvest: tracking time, invoicing
Shutterstock: stock photos and vector illustrations
Creative Market: premium fonts, project assets
Coolors.co: brainstorming colour palettes
WordPress: our preferred content management system for most website projects
What tool can you not live without? Let us know – we are always looking for great new tools!
