20 Apps that Simplify your Life - The Designer's Edition

THERE’S AN APP FOR

THAT!Power of New

Media in a designer’s life!!

By- Srushti Kumbhare, Semester 3, Fashion and Lifestyle Accessories, NIFT Bhopal.

PEOPLE TODAY ARE ENTIRELY DEPENDENT ON THEIR SMART

PHONES.A MAJOR REASON FOR THIS ARE

APPS.

WHAT IS AN APPLICATION?

“Application or apps are mini software programs used to enhance

existing functionality and make devices more user friendly.

They run on PCs, smart phones and

tablets.”

Apps can be programmed to do just about anything,

be it search a recipe, workout and even dress up.

Whatever you want to do,

There’s an app for

that!

THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF APPS

AVAILABLE IN THE APP MARKET WHICH CATER TO OUR EVERY NEED.

SO,HOW CAN THESE APPS HELP DESIGNERS LIKE US?

DESIGNERS ARE CREATIVE PEOPLE.

WE CAN GET INSPIRED ANYWHERE AND ANYTIME.

ONCE WE START WORKING, WE NEED A LOT OF TOOLS AND RESOURCES TO BRING OUR VISIONS TO REALITY.

And that’s where apps come in!

AN IDEA CAN STRIKE ANYWHERE,ANY MOMENT.

AND IN MAJORITY OF CASES, IT’S NOT USUALLY PRACTICAL TO CARRY A NOTEBOOK ALL THE TIME.

ALSO, DESIGNERS HAVE TO CARRY HUGE DIRECTORIES OF COLOR SCHEMES AND WHAT NOT DURING CLIENT MEETINGS.

THESE APPS ACT AS A WELCOME SOLUTION TO SUCH PROBLEMS FACED BY DESIGNERS.

Many corporations leading in creative software

such as Adobe, Autodesk, etc have, therefore stepped forward

and attempted to solve many such problems

by giving us Virtual Pocket Versions

of many popular software, websites and social networking

sites to make our lives easier.

Here they are..

Pinterest and Houzz

THESE VIRTUAL MOOD BOARDS HELP YOU TO SAVE ALL YOUR INSPIRATION, IDEAS AND PRODUCTS IN ONE PLACE ONLINE,

ACCESSIBLE AT THE TOUCH OF A FINGERTIP.

Sketchpad, PAPER and Adobe Ideas

THESE APPS ACT LIKE VIRTUAL SKETCHBOOK AND MEDIA COMPILED INTO ONE. THEY HAVE OPTIONS OF VAROIUS MEDIA BRUSHES LIKE WATERCOLOR, MARKERS, PENCIL, ETC. YOU CAN

ALSO MIX COLOR WHILE PAINITING ON THEM.

Morpholio TRACE and Design Dimensions

Morfolio TRACE enables us to use our phone as tracing paper. We can click pictures and trace on top using this app. Design dimensions is a directory of dimensions and proportions of everyday design objects.

Adobe KULER and myPANTONE

These two apps are mega color directories fit into a tiny app which you can carry around all the time. Convenient for easy reference, they also allow you to extract color schemes out of any image.

Fontly and What the Font

Fontly is Instagram for Typography lovers. What the font allows you to know the Font name and type by simply scanning its pictures.

SPACEDRAW and Autodesk 123D Design

Autodesk 123D Design and Spacedraw are used to create 3D forms and models on smartphone. They are extremely useful to see whether an idea is feasible or not. Autodesk 123D Catch is an app that has the ability to transform any picture into 3D with the help of different views of an object.

SoundNote and Google Goggles

SoundNote enables you to recored your lectures while taking notes, so that you can review both together.Google goggles let you search the web by an image, hence you can obtain information about anything you click easily.

Evernote and Springpad

With so many projects going on and so many deadlines to manage, these apps help us organize, assign tasks and create lists and help users to get their work done very efficiently and effectively.

Adobe Photoshop Touch

Adobe Photoshop Touch is the mini version of Photoshop offered for Smartphones. Though it doesn’t have all the features of Photoshop, it does have many popular options ike Layers, Image adjustments and Filters.

Behance and Deviant art

Behance and Deviantart are online portfolio showcase platform as well as a social networking site for people in various creative fields like art, advertising, web designing, graphic designers, cartoonists, etc.

HENCE, BY USING THESE APPS, DESIGNERS CAN

Save timeWork on the go

Organize their priorities

Have information at a touch

Share, edit and collaborateAnd use their devices to their productive best.

REFERENCES•www.quixey.com•Chrome Webstore•www.itunes.com/ apps•www.infographicsonly.com•www.archdaily.com/10bestappsfordesigners•www.creativebloq.com/appsfordesigners•www.archdaily.com – apps