How organized are you? Are you able to juggle all your responsibilities without missing an appointment or meeting? Or do you struggle to remember when you need to be where?
As the pace of life increases, so to do your responsibilities. This is especially true for web designers. The sheer complexity of maintaining a site means you have to stay constantly aware of all the technical aspects and components of your sites.
Luckily, there are tools to keep you on track. These web design apps will simplify your process, increasing your productivity. Keep reading to learn more.
Hourstracker
Using personal planners is a common practice. They help you keep on track and stay organized, with notifications to make sure you never miss a deadline.
A great compliment to a planner is having an app that tracks how much time you spend on a project. Hourskeeper is a free app that logs how much time you spend on certain jobs and tasks. Having this kind of data helps you stay more efficient as well as more organized.
For starters, it’s easy to bill clients by the hour with this app logging how much time you spend on their projects. But another bonus is the insights you gain into your own behaviors. It can be shocking to discover how much time social media takes up, but once you know, you can correct those behaviors.
Color Grab
Any designer can tell you how seemingly minor choices can actually eat up a lot of time. Deciding on a color palette is a great example of this type of time-consuming decision.
Color Grab helps automate this process for you. Wherever inspiration strikes, just point your camera and take a picture. Color Grab will then build you a color palette from the image.
From there, you can either implement that scheme as is or make adjustments to better suit your vision.
WhattheFont
After the color scheme, one of the biggest choices designers struggle with is typography. The right font can either make or break a design.
Seeing the right font in the wild, but not knowing its name, can haunt designers. Instead of wasting sleepless nights trying to search for it, WhattheFont will find it for you just from taking a picture.
Adobe Comp CC
Long the biggest name in design software, Adobe offers a powerful iPad app to help web designers with Comp CC.
Easily start a project using shapes, fonts, and images, and easily build your layout. Comp features gesture support and Adobe’s intuitive design process to that is as simple or powerful as you need it.
Best of all is that you can easily export your work to other apps within the Adobe Suite for even more flexibility.
Penultimate
Having access to high-end design is important, but sometimes you just want to sketch out your ideas.
Penultimate is a powerful sketch and handwriting tool that uses a proprietary inking technology to better emulate writing with a stylus. It also offers cloud support and Evernote syncing.
Last Word on Web Design Apps
The best web design apps are ones that support your work. They need to be easy to use and easier to implement. Anything that demands too much of your time is more of a distraction than a benefit.
The above apps cover a spectrum of needs, from design choice to brainstorming to page building. Use them, and watch your productivity skyrocket.
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Tom Smith
Content writer and marketing consultant who loves coffee, wine and cheese. Not necessarily in that order.
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