Because of the design of life, it is beautiful because of design.
Designers are new to the field of design. How to improve themselves with the help of design inspiration, design tools and design skills, and grow into senior designers efficiently and quickly? I hope these tools compiled by the author can help you. The reading time of this article is about 5 minutes, so friends who have time may wish to have a look ~
Top 1| Font artifact: characters are composed of
Introduction:
Freedom is a font management software tailored for designers. Freedom has collected thousands of selected fonts at home and abroad contributed by users. It not only shows the application cases, font introduction and background information of font design of each font, but also classifies fonts according to labels, which is convenient for designers to call. Ziyou can cooperate with designers who are familiar with PS, AI, Sketch and other design software to change fonts more conveniently and efficiently. At the same time, there are also selected contents such as professional font application typesetting skills and thematic font recommendation for users to learn from.
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The website can preview its font effect online, and then download it when it feels good. There is no need to download and install a bunch of uncommon fonts, and 500+ free commercial font collections are provided. Ma Ma no longer has to worry about the lawyer's letter of commercial font infringement! In addition, the website also provides client downloads.
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Top2| Online Mind Map Artifact: Baidu Brain Map
Introduction:
Baidu Brain Map is the website of Baidu Company. Support automatic real-time saving. "The world is very complicated, and Baidu knows you better." The simple and extremely intuitive Baidu brain map shows some complicated things for readers to understand and sort out.
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A free website for online mind mapping, no need to download software. For beginners, the operation is relatively simple, but the popularity is not high.
Top3| Online Color Matching Artifact: Adobekuler
Introduction:
Adobekuler is a color matching plug-in based on adobeair officially launched by Adobe. It has a built-in massive color scheme, which can be imported into Photoshop, AI, InDesign and other software, and can also be shared with Adobe officials with one click. Is a good helper for your color matching, suitable for web design and other color matching needs, friends who need it can download it!
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Kuler is a color matching website owned by Adobe. As a giant design tool, this tool is very practical. You can adjust the chroma, lightness and saturation of colors, and combine thousands of color schemes at will!
Top4 Online H5 Interactive Design Artifact: Yipai Epub360
Introduction:
Yipai Epub360 belongs to Shanghai Yipai Technology and is a professional H5 interactive design platform. Through visual component editing, complex H5 interactive animation, data and logic can be realized. It is the same choice for Huawei, China Merchants Bank, Shanghai Watch and other enterprises.
Professional interactive function: support professional animation control, interactive setting, social application and data application, and ensure the smooth realization of enterprise business requirements.
Easy to operate: the gradual product design mode from simple to difficult is adopted, and the effect is modular, which reduces the difficulty for users to get started. The stable operating environment helps enterprises to continuously export ideas.
Providing enterprise services: We provide H5 tool training, customization and privatization deployment services for enterprises/media units. Customized services include scanning code sign-in, big screen interaction, H5 games and other scenes. We are long-term partners of Shanghai Liberation Daily, China Merchants Bank, Guangxi Daily and other units.
Provide high-quality templates: provide a rich template library, 500+ high-quality enterprise H5 templates, various invitations, recruitment, holiday posters and H5 games.
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Yipai Epub360 is a professional H5 interactive design artifact, which can edit and make H5 works online without downloading software. It was launched on 20 14, and it was an early professional H5 design tool. It allows H5 to work with zero code on computers, ipad and WeChat terminals. It is the leading domestic support for SVG, SVG path animation, SVG deformation animation, fine control, gesture triggering, shaking, dragging interaction, collision detection, gravity sensing and so on.
Top5| Online Image Compression Artifact: Tinypng
Introduction:
TinyPNGForPhotoshop plugin is a PNG image compression plugin. With this plug-in, you can highly compress PNG images, but the impact on image quality is minimal. It only takes two simple steps to complete the high compression of PNG images without affecting the quality of PNG images, thus solving the problem that web designers affect the loading speed of web pages because the images are too large.
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TinyPNG is an English website, but it opens quickly and doesn't need to be understood. Just drag the picture to the icon uploaded in the middle. The compression rate is very high, supporting JPG and PNG compression. The overall compression ratio is 70%, and there is almost no loss in image quality. However, the size of each compression is limited to 5 megabytes, with a maximum of 20 pictures. If it is a sequence diagram, it is not suitable, but it is completely sufficient for general use. In addition, you can also use the domestic compression tool "compression map" to customize the compression quality.
Top5| Video Compression Artifact: Handbrake
Introduction:
Handbrake is a compact and practical video conversion software with powerful functions, simple and clear interface, convenient operation and humanized design. The Chinese version of handbrake supports Win/Mac/Lin operating system, converts video formats in batches, and has its own compression function. Don't miss friends in need!
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The interface of this software is in English. You need to know a few basic English terms. Now it is often used on Mac system, but the domestic small window software used before can't be used, but it supports both Mac and window systems and has a set compression rate. I usually set it at around 22, which has strong compression quality and volume and fast compression speed. I used this software to compress the video file of 1.2G to 22.6 megabytes, which can be described as shock. It is really an excellent foreign compression software!
Top7| Excellent Project Experience Sharing: Tencent CDC
Introduction:
Tencent CDC, full name "Tencent User Research and Experience Design Department (Customer Research &; UserExperienceDesignCenter), established in 2003 and formally established in May 2006, is a company-level design team of Tencent, which is located in Shenzhen, Beijing and Chengdu, and is committed to improving the user experience of Tencent products and exploring the innovation of Internet ecological experience.
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Tencent CDC will often share its team's project production experience, including the project background, project problems and solutions of Tencent's multiple products. It must be said that the design level of Goose Factory is the benchmark of design circle, which brings visual expression, human-computer interaction and emotional expression to a very high level in product and promotion.
Top8| online enterprise website artifact: Coolsite360
Introduction:
Yipai CoolSite360 is an online website creation tool for the era of mobile Internet. It designs responsive websites in a visual way, and can automatically adapt to different devices such as computers, tablets and mobile phones with only one edit on the PC side, regardless of the screen size. A better user experience can be presented.
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Does this name look familiar to you? Yes, Coolpad 360 and Eppie Epub360 are tools of Eppie Technology. The three biggest characteristics of CoolSite360 are responsive website building, diversified editing modes and high website value.
Responsive: Simply put, responsive refers to the percentage layout of a website, so that a website can adapt to computers, tablets and mobile phones at the same time;
Diversified editing modes: adapting to different users, opening template websites, module websites and professional websites, and increasing the professionalism of operation and effect in turn;
High face value: The combination of large screen official website, video background and scrolling parallax will make official website stand tall immediately!
Top9| A Small Screen Recording Artifact: ScreenToGif
Official website: At present, we can't find a download portal. We can download it through other reliable websites in China.
Introduction:
ScreenToGif is a Gif animation recording software with a size of only over 40 KB. Through this GIF animation recording software, you can grab the picture on the desktop with one click and record it as a GIF animation file. When recording with this software, you can set the FPS and screen size. After setting, click "Record" to start recording, and click "Stop" to stop recording.
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A small tool, when you click download, just release the left mouse button, it has been downloaded, and the installation is very easy. Drag the position, pull the screen recording area, support different frame rate quality saving schemes, and import and edit GIF frames. Anyway, I think it is much more efficient than recording with screen recording software, then compressing with pr, and then importing ps to output GIF!
Ok, the 9 artifacts in this issue are shared here, and you can leave a message with practical gadgets or software in the future ~