Please consider this article for the various tools and resources used by the Frontend Designers.
Web Design Tools
We are using various Tools to make a perfect design of our website. There are so many tools that are available but uses can be different or we can do same work on different tools as well. Every Tool has their pros and cons so we have to consider these pros and cons while doing the design so it will help us to make a smooth process to design a website. Here We are using 3 tools mostly
They are:-
1. Adobe Photoshop
2. Adobe illustrator
3. Figma
- Photoshop:- Adobe Photoshop is basically famous for editing for graphic designers. It is one of the most popular photo editing software tools in the market. Here we are using this tool to give a new effect in a particular image like a shadow or create a good banner or remove the background from the images.So we can understand one of them with some process points
First, we have to log in to the tool so for login we are using the same credential so our whole team uses it and works on the same page, and can use cloud data.
- Drag one photo from your computer gallery and drop it in Photoshop and now this image shows in name of the layer
- Now we have to remove the background so there are so many tools are available on the left side of the tool .there are 2 types of tools are available -1st is the selection tool and 2nd is the Pen tool
- So the choice is ours which tool we select according to our preference but we prefer Pen tool for this purpose Because it is very easy to use and also give proper design and layout where we can draw it and cut background easily.
- So now we draw a layout according to our photo and press right click and click on the cut option or we can directly use the delete button from the keypad.
- Illustrator:- Adobe Illustrator is also a very famous designing tool of adobe.Illustrator is basically used to create Illustrative effects or we can say create vectors to give more good looking and creative effect to your website. we are using a pen tool here to make a vector design. Its user interface is highly accessible and customizable. We can use it easily and share the file with the help of email and It offers custom viewing and space-saving features to help you work on any machine. Instead of stored pixels, it generates graphics based on mathematical equations to ensure crisp and sharp lines that you can print in any dimension
- Figma:-Figma is an Independent tool where we can make a whole website in a single Frame and we can use different pages to give a proper feel to whole websites. There so many tools are available in the Figma and we can also use its community for our need in design like,
Images
Icons
Templets
Etc
Figma is the easiest tool to use to design Web Pages and it provides a platform where we can use its community for better performance. we can use plugins and unplash for images and also vector images in storyset by freepik and also choose illustration option in plugins for vector and we can also make our own map with map maker option in plugin just add address and map maker will provide you the map according to your address. To avail of these things
First, we have to log in to the tool so for login we are using the same credential so our whole team uses it and works on the same project and can use cloud data.
Web Design Resources
Design Resources is the most fundamental thing in design previously we read about tools is also one kind of design resource to develop the design or any graphic or web design related work but here we are going to talk about the resources we are using during our design development and the platform we use every day to make our design process smooth and less time-consuming.
Design resource is nothing but a source of providing ready-to-use components. It’s better to use design resources from various web applications rather than investing time in a long designing process. We can use such impressive ready-to-use design components in our design. Using these tactics can save lots of time from making a design from scratch and can invest that time to build good web designs either.
The web application we usually use are paid one’s and they are:
1) Freepik
2 Envato
3) Flaticon
1) Free pik
Freepik is a Free and also have premium and best search engine that helps us to create customized designs as well as to find high-quality photos, vector images, illustrations, Mockup, and as well as PSD files are available as ready to use components. The most relevant part of this resource is that freepik is copyright free and we can use any design components from there in our Personal and commercial projects. Freepik is easy to use and also legal to use anywhere in the project.
2) Flaticon
Flaticon is also one of the most important resources when it comes to web design. Flaticon is the product of freepik company but this is a different platform and here you will find thousands of icons in PNG and SVG format where PNG is for free version but for SVG it is for only premium/ paid users. as we know icons play a vital role in website it help to understand visual and as well interact with the user as it helps user as a infographic for eg. signboards on Highway. Use of icons should be sensitive and sensible in web design as we know there are multiple types of Icons available in different formats and look, icons with minimal UI, minimal stroke icon, bold stroke icon, colorful icons, etc types are available that’s why we follow limitations and rules during usage of icons.3) Envato
Envato is a huge platform for designers, developers, artist,s and for many more designations. Here various kinds of assets are available at one cost on this platform; it only provides paid assets in every different manner. Here we can avail the graphical assets in many different files and extensions. Envato elements make the design process very easy and smooth with the help of its assets which can be used directly by downloading it once and then you can drag and drop according to your need of the project.
All are paid resources, use them carefully and for project purposes only.
Submitted by: Manisha Sharma