almost 5 years ago from Lee Munroe, Design @ OneSignal
Something I'm always curious about; what tools are other Design teams using?
I just published a post about our own design stack at Mesosphere. Some of the tools we use:
Thought I'd open up the discussion here to hear from others.
What tools are you using? What tools do you wish you were using?
Using: At Atlassian we've got a mostly unified stack, with a few teams and individuals diverging here and there. So this list isn't comprehensive.
Trying out:
Wish we were using:
I live for Figma. Wake was pretty cool at the time I tried it (pretty early in it's life). Unfortunately it didn't seem to provide too much value to the team (at the time).
Figma and all the version control and sync-to-invision-pains are gone <3
That's the list of tools I mainly use in my everyday work. Unfortunately, I'm not able to use most of the new tools out there because of security restrictions (the only cloud-based apps we use today are Slack, Box, and G Suite).
I'm also trying Haiku now and I'd love to try Figma but I can't, due to the cloud environment.
Any qualms with Box? Our team is considering using it, potentially migrating away from an internal SVN server to store our assets (thank the lawd).
Box is great, the interface and the sync software got so much better in the last few years. To be honest I'd prefer to use Google Drive or Dropbox, but seems like it's not "secure enough".
We are an international team (15 in the US, 15 in India, 1 freelancer in Europe). We just transitioned the whole team to Abstract from InVision so now the stack would be:
Cool...another thread about tools.
Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Bridge, Font Suitcase, Keynote
Wasn't familiar with Whimsical. Looks good.
How do you find keeping Storybook aligned with what's documented in Confluence (and vice versa)?
Heh. It's not easy. Our design system is very much an MVP. So when we add or update the system, it's a laborious process of updating sketch libs, documentation in Confluence, and React components.
Hey Mitch! I'm Kris with InVision. Bummed to hear that Craft is causing so many issues for you and your team! I would love to help make that better. Would you be willing to jump on a call with me to talk more about the issues? Thanks!
Hey Kris. Coincidentally, I discovered the problem a few hours after I posted this. Turns out it was a third-party Sketch plugin that was messing me up. I removed it and now Craft sync works perfect!
Thanks for reaching out!
Happy to see Screenflow in your list. Such a great little but powerful tool that doesn't seem to get the attention it deserves.
Love Niice.co
Really like the look of Abstract + Lingo tools. Would you rec?
Abstract is great. Central to our workflow now. Lingo is a solid tool but it does something which I would expect Sketch to already do, which is shared layer and text styles as part of a library. Before Sketch libraries we also used Lingo to share our UI components.
At Quizlet we are primarily using:
We are considering switching from InVision Inspect to Zeplin in the near future.
Why the switch from invision inspect to Zeplin? :)
Not sure what you mainly use InVision Inspect for but have you checked out the newly released google "gallery" ? https://material.io/tools/gallery/
Very cool, wondering if you can generate public links to share with anyone?
Can you generate SVG assets from InVision or Zeplin?
Yes, as long as you make them exportable from within Sketch.
Jira, Confluence, Google Apps (prefer Office 365), Slack, InVision, Sketch and Balsamiq Mockups.
Sketch Abstract Invison Invision Studio Trello Adobe CC
I'm interested in trying Webflow. I'm not sure if this counts. I always design/build websites in WP. What does everyone think about Webflow compared to WP? Think it's the "next thing?"
My stack:
Some tools I'm interested in using:
For my current client, we use:
General tools: - JIRA, Confluence, HipChat (the Atlassian stack) - Google Drive / Docs / Sheets
Other tools, depending on the client: - Sketch - InVision - Marvel
The nice thing is, since our team of 50+ designers have so many clients, it's really up to our smaller teams to decide what we like best and use it, for the most part. We have a lot of flexibility in choosing our tools here, aside from storage or anything cloud-based (which does limit our options, due to security and audits).
Company-wide:
Personal Use (but for work):
I use a few other things for personal projects, but that's it for work.
At PHEAA, our tech stack is pretty old but we're in the process of modernizing. Currently, we run Windows 7, so there is a compatibility issue we also run into, but nevertheless.
Trying out - Atom Editor - Figma/UXPin - Windows 10 Business
Our team at Neyber are using:
Sketch Adobe CC InVision JIRA Confluence LucidChart Zeplin Google Drive
Trying out: Principle Marvel Figma
Pretty small list compared to the rest here:
At Imaginary Cloud we use:
Sketch (can't miss it) Photoshop Illustrator Marvel App Keynote (you have to present stuff, better do it right and neat) Pages (for writing more than a few pages) Numbers (tables... tables everywhere)
At 42Race, We use Figma — design, prototype, presentation, design library Loom — video documentation and presentation ( easier to discuss design rationale and specs) Notion — design specs outline, linking video and prototype, wikis for design processes and templates Jira – Project management Flock – Communication
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