Design Tools News #31

A very well done promotion video went viral this week on Twitter. This is “Play”. It’s bold, but I can see a future for these kind of tools. Besides that it is #nocode, the real bold move is making a tool for designing on a small touch screen. Check out their extensive blog post with loads of demo videos. Unfortunately it’s in private beta, so no testing just yet.

I just hope they have thought of command based search interfaces, like you can find in the new Framer beta, among other tools ;)

Knowing a thing or two about how to use the terminal can be very powerful. And you can learn it in a fairly short amount of time. This is a great guide on getting to know the basics!

I’ve been using Screenie v1 for many years. It allowed me to drag recently made screenshots from the menu bar into any app I needed them. But now with their v2, they took it to another level…

Screenie 2 searches for text within your screenshots. And with the new Spotlight-like interface it gets super powerful to quickly find a screenshot you took, even if that was a long time ago! It also makes for a nice time machine like experience. When I search for “Runner” I find screenshots from almost 4 years ago 🏃‍♂️👶

A rather simple app, that does what Screenie is for your Mac, but now on your iPhone or iPad. Search through an extensive set of memes or screenshots 🚀

Meng and his team have done it again. A great and extensive tutorial series on Apple’s new programming language. SwiftUI is a great first step for designers to take when starting to code. With the live Preview in Xcode, you can iterate quickly and create powerful user interfaces with a few lines of code that works for all of Apple’s platforms. Take your static design to the next level and build real apps with the simplicity of a prototyping tool.

Maze is a user testing and usability research platform that turns your prototype into actionable insights. Works with Sketch, Marvel and InVision. And since this week there’s Figma support!

Sleuth is an open-source tool that enables teams to see how and where design components are being used. Generate a detailed report of all your libraries and gather insight into symbol and style adoption. Start optimizing!