The web world is expanding fast and so are the designs. Every day new design tools and editors keep popping up to enhance your free WordPress themes. You need to have an ear around the happenings to stay ahead of all. This article covers some best tools for web designers to use in 2018. The tools listed below are free or are available under SaaS or are simple browser tools. Have a look.
Adobe XD
Photoshop has ruled for many long years but with the changing time many much more efficient tools have emerged and one of them is Adobe XD. This tool was strongly made to replace Photoshop and the main aim was prototyping and design mockup.
With a perfect mix of Photoshop and Illustrator, Adobe XD is the fastest loved and growing software amongst the web designers. XD was initially released for MAC only but now it is available for Windows as well.
The main competitor to Adbobe XD is Sketch and XD is trying its full capability to outpast it.
Sketch App
After PhotoShop, Sketch was the main lead as it offered most easiest of solutions to the web designers. Backed by the mainstream support, Sketch is indeed the most popular tool today. The main reason is that it is available for just one time fee unless the Adobe which charges monthly subscriptions.
Sketch is backed by a very strong community which keeps on releasing their own plugins so as to make the life easier with Sketch. The software is scalable and fully robust and easy to use.
Plant Version Control
Git has always been a life saver in the development community. Plant Version Control offers you a complete modern solution, just the way web designers want it to be. The User Interface is very friendly and the files are backed with a solid backend. The original Version Control software had a command line usage but Plant Version Control has a beautiful GUI. The tool comes with a free plan as well. you can actually try it out before buying the full version.
Principle
The modern design work accompanies UI/UX animations for an effective usage. Even if you are building any MVP or a sample design, even then you need some animations in your designs. This tool is available only for Mac Softwares. Sketch Files or PSDs can be easily imported into this tool. So, add Life to your mock up or sample design by using Principle.
Figma
This tool is best suited for digital prototyping. This tool provides a powerful platform for prototyping and supports the entire team in collaborating and communicating. You can even export a CSS file inside the Figma Program.
Presentator
Presentator is an open source tool for the designers. The tool runs directly into your browser. You can simply upload the designs and can share them with your clients, team members, colleagues etc. The files can be assigned with the permissions. So it’s the administrator who can decide which permission is to be given to which person.
Webflow
Webflow may look like just another website builder but it makes you have full control over the web-design, build and the code. The tool comes with a hosting plan, CMS engine, client access etc.
Fontjoy
This tool picks all the fonts straight from Google Webfonts and brings them together over one page. The user can easily choose the font and test it by varying the height, weight etc over the page. So you can actually save a lot time which was spent earlier while flipping the fonts in the browser.
Winding Up
These are few of the top tools which you can use to design your free WordPress themes. But you need to stay updated regarding the trending things by reading blogs, articles, following design news etc.
