13 New Tools for Designers and Developers 2014

Posted on December 18, 2014

Today, the job of designing is truly becoming very competitive due to the head-to-head competition going on in the field. So, it is becoming very crucial for the designers and developers to keep themselves updated with the latest tools, technologies and updates that are launched in the designing arena.

Developers and designers are required to use the right and latest tools and software programs to do extremely well in this field. So, considering this fact here are few excellent and useful tools showcased for the developers and designers.

These were some of the most useful tools available for the developers and designers. All these tools are known for its unique features that make the task of designing easier for the developers.

1) Winjs

This is a set of JavaScript toolkit that enables the developers to develop applications by using CSS/JS/HTML technology. This tool is best known for offering distinctive set of UI controls with high performance and polish with some basic support for mouse, touch, keyboard and accessibility.

2) Csstyle

This is the modern technology that enables the developers to design beautifully maintainable style-sheets. This technology is employed by using a set of SASS mixins and hence it makes the CSS semantic and readable, and even create selector for you and allows handling things like nesting and specifying automatically.

3) CSS specificity-graph generator

4) Colorrun

This is the simple, newly launched color game, where the users are allowed to click on lighter of two colors. This may seem quite easy at times, but in reality it is not. You may probably make mistakes when you move ahead. This is one of the best fun games that everyone must try to learn the primary difference between colors.

5) Material-ui

6) GistBox

This tool basically uses GitHub’s backend; however it adds its own search functionality and layer of label. This tool was actually designed to be a personal snippet library or curated, just similar to the long term memory for practicing software engineering.

7) SoundKit

As the name suggest, it is a professional sound library and the prime role of SoundKit is to make the UI of your design project visually appealing, whilst soothing to the ears. This tool comprises of over 300 professional royalty free sound effects, making it easier for the designers to make a pick of their choice.

8) FormKeep

This is another advanced tool that doesn’t comprise any iFrames, JavaScript embeds or CSS overrides. However, it efficiently helps the developers to create URL for your form’s endpoint which users can plug into their existing code easily to deploy.

9) Schema

10) Fontspiration

This is the most effective application designed specifically for iGadgets and it allows the users to develop custom typographic designs, comprising multiple of fonts and built-in animations. This application allows the users to choice their own fonts and users can even customize the color, size, animate and do much more to get the most desired outcomes.

11) Themosis Framework

This is finest and coolest framework for WordPress developers and it is known for its simple code syntax and unique features that enable the users to build custom websites and applications for WordPress websites.