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Galleries, archives and references for visual direction.

Most colour tools generate a palette. Very few help you ship one. These fifteen close the gap between nice hex codes and a working colour system.

· 8 min read

One is for making graphics fast without design training. The other is for designing software. The overlap is small and mostly accidental.

· 6 min read

Sketch is still good. It is also still Mac-only, and that is why most teams left.

· 7 min read

Canva is excellent until you need precision. Here are twelve alternatives, split by whether you want more control or just a cheaper Canva.

· 8 min read

Loom is fine for a quick walkthrough. For design feedback specifically, several of these are better.

· 7 min read

The point of a wireframe is that it is cheap to throw away. Tools that make wireframes look finished defeat the purpose.

· 7 min read

Most prototypes only need to answer one question. Match the tool to the question and you save a week.

· 7 min read

Handoff breaks for the same three reasons everywhere, and only one of them is a tooling problem.

· 7 min read

Everything here is genuinely free for commercial use, or clearly marked where it is not. No bait, no "free trial."

· 9 min read

Everyone uses the same forty Unsplash photos. Here are thirteen sources that will not make your site look like every other site.

· 8 min read

Launch day is one day. Distribution is a year. Here is where the traffic actually comes from, honestly ranked.

· 9 min read

You get about eight words before someone decides whether to keep reading. Spend them on what it does.

· 6 min read