August 9, 2017 at 17:4212 useful sites for creative teams
Today we offer you to get acquainted with useful resources for creative teams. Our selection will help you understand how to facilitate interaction within the team, tell you where ideas come from and teach you how to control creative clutter.
Muzli
"Secret source of inspiration" - the creators are positioning the product. The Google Chrome extension automatically picks up fresh and interesting news from the world of creativity for you. Muzli covers the best works of graphic designers, illustrations, bewitching photos, interesting opinions.
The extension is provided for two browsers: Google Chrome and Safari. Muzli blog deserves attention. Authors from around the world publish creative notes, share experiences, talk about design and give tips.
Designspiration
Designspiration is able to charge you with creative energy for the whole day!
The resource collects design ideas, logos, beautiful photos. An interesting feature is the ability to search by color. If on a gray St. Petersburg day you need to be inspired by the colors of summer, choose up to 5 colors from the palette that cause joy in your soul. The site will show a selection of pictures in your own gamut.
For those who are looking for something specific, there is a text search for one or more keywords. Designspiration offers to save pictures to personal collections, sort by theme and share with friends.
The developers presented a mobile application for those who like to be inspired on the run.
Behance
Behance is a product from Adobe that gives you the opportunity to find inspiration and show your worth. A site is an online platform for creating a creative portfolio. Each user has a profile with information and a gallery of works. The creators provided for the design of the page - the selection of colors, fields for personalizing the portfolio. Works can be commented on and evaluated in a positive way - there are no dislikes.
Behance offers a set of filters for searching: the finished product, person or team. Sorting is possible by occupation, popularity, country. The user will meet illustrations, GIF-animations and videos. Here you can also find a job or offer a project to designers, illustrators and photographers.
Trello
Trello - a virtual board for the team. The idea of the resource is intuitively simple: visualization of text stickers with the task. You create a separate board for each project or department, sort cards by type of task or employee. Participants can attach colleagues to the assignment, if it is joint, to create a checklist if multi-level work is meant.
Completed tasks are archived. Trello sets up notifications of changes on the board, you will not miss the important.
Slack
The intense rhythm of life, the spread of freelance and remote work, make you refuse email and look for alternative methods of communication.
Slack is not just a messenger. This is an application that integrates and tracks letters, news and mentions from a variety of sources: Google Disk, Trello, Twitter, Dropbox and others. Users create a team and channels for communication. The subject of the conversation will be a separate project, type of work or just a discussion of the upcoming corporate party.
It is possible to create open, partially confidential or personal chats. Download the app to your smartphone or tablet and stay connected.
Hangouts An
excellent Google application that combines chat and video conferencing. Now you don’t have to be around to hold a meeting and discuss the project.
The creators took care of flexible settings - watch the video from "YouTube", share files and even engage in joint drawing. A useful feature is to save audio and video. Web version and integration into Slack is available.
Teamweek
Teamweek is a web-application for project managers. The resource keeps track of working hours, helps to understand what tasks have been completed, estimate the terms and level of workload of each employee. Simple visualization will help you not to miss the deadline - no digital statistics.
The interface is a simple calendar. You fill out a short card with the name of the task, its description, terms of preparation and the number of hours for implementation, and the program automatically builds the "road" of the project.
The developers presented the ability to manage multiple teams or projects within the same group. From pleasant - integration with Trello.
Coggle
Another interesting service for the work was presented by the Coggle development team.
The resource draws diagrams of connections, "mind maps" - this is the name of their creators. Bright and amazing notes will decorate the brainstorming, will allow to classify and store information.
Add illustrations, follow the chronology of events, publish on the site. Service is free - edit records online, download the result in several formats. The main thing is not to get confused.
Evernote
Evernote is a virtual notebook that keeps notes in one place.
Do you remember beautiful diaries from American films? Now it is available in electronic format. The resource saves multimedia files, makes it possible to write notes, arrange them, make sketches and sketches. Evernote is available on mobile devices.
The developer offers the user to arrange entries in folders depending on the topic.
There is a Business version that will establish teamwork and track the success of colleagues. The application has gained popularity - users of the worldwide network offer work with Evernote.
Wordmark
The Wordmarks project is a startup of a Turkish developer. The function of the site is one — to choose the style of the text. You no longer have to spend endless hours in MSWord to examine the fonts in order from the drop-down menu. Visit wordmark, enter a phrase and enjoy your choice.
ColorScheme
Russian site ColorScheme will help you choose a palette for the project. Gamma can be selected endlessly, enjoying a variety of colors. The top menu presents popular tools. “Color model” will help to generate a colorful scheme, just select the main color. Then you can see how the palette will look on the page of your site.
The resource is filled with thematic articles and tables: the name of the colors, the colors of cars or threads for embroidery. Tools will be useful: a color calculator or an HTML color converter.
Color tool
Another Google development is the Color tool. A serious color matching tool. The site allows you to create gammas and apply them to interface models. The developer recommends choosing primary and secondary colors, choosing a palette in a corporate style, or creating a new gamut. A feature is the ability to check the combination of colors for readability. The algorithm is based on a recommendation on the availability of web content (https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/visual-audio-contrast-contrast.html).
Be curious and click on the “?” Sign in the upper right corner of the screen. An excellent collection of articles on style and color science will open for you.
The selection was prepared by the copywriter of the Logomachine - Alena Kovalenko
For inspiration:
Muzli
"Secret source of inspiration" - the creators are positioning the product. The Google Chrome extension automatically picks up fresh and interesting news from the world of creativity for you. Muzli covers the best works of graphic designers, illustrations, bewitching photos, interesting opinions.
The extension is provided for two browsers: Google Chrome and Safari. Muzli blog deserves attention. Authors from around the world publish creative notes, share experiences, talk about design and give tips.
Designspiration
Designspiration is able to charge you with creative energy for the whole day!
The resource collects design ideas, logos, beautiful photos. An interesting feature is the ability to search by color. If on a gray St. Petersburg day you need to be inspired by the colors of summer, choose up to 5 colors from the palette that cause joy in your soul. The site will show a selection of pictures in your own gamut.
For those who are looking for something specific, there is a text search for one or more keywords. Designspiration offers to save pictures to personal collections, sort by theme and share with friends.
The developers presented a mobile application for those who like to be inspired on the run.
Behance
Behance is a product from Adobe that gives you the opportunity to find inspiration and show your worth. A site is an online platform for creating a creative portfolio. Each user has a profile with information and a gallery of works. The creators provided for the design of the page - the selection of colors, fields for personalizing the portfolio. Works can be commented on and evaluated in a positive way - there are no dislikes.
Behance offers a set of filters for searching: the finished product, person or team. Sorting is possible by occupation, popularity, country. The user will meet illustrations, GIF-animations and videos. Here you can also find a job or offer a project to designers, illustrators and photographers.
For teamwork:
Trello
Trello - a virtual board for the team. The idea of the resource is intuitively simple: visualization of text stickers with the task. You create a separate board for each project or department, sort cards by type of task or employee. Participants can attach colleagues to the assignment, if it is joint, to create a checklist if multi-level work is meant.
Completed tasks are archived. Trello sets up notifications of changes on the board, you will not miss the important.
Slack
The intense rhythm of life, the spread of freelance and remote work, make you refuse email and look for alternative methods of communication.
Slack is not just a messenger. This is an application that integrates and tracks letters, news and mentions from a variety of sources: Google Disk, Trello, Twitter, Dropbox and others. Users create a team and channels for communication. The subject of the conversation will be a separate project, type of work or just a discussion of the upcoming corporate party.
It is possible to create open, partially confidential or personal chats. Download the app to your smartphone or tablet and stay connected.
Hangouts An
excellent Google application that combines chat and video conferencing. Now you don’t have to be around to hold a meeting and discuss the project.
The creators took care of flexible settings - watch the video from "YouTube", share files and even engage in joint drawing. A useful feature is to save audio and video. Web version and integration into Slack is available.
Teamweek
Teamweek is a web-application for project managers. The resource keeps track of working hours, helps to understand what tasks have been completed, estimate the terms and level of workload of each employee. Simple visualization will help you not to miss the deadline - no digital statistics.
The interface is a simple calendar. You fill out a short card with the name of the task, its description, terms of preparation and the number of hours for implementation, and the program automatically builds the "road" of the project.
The developers presented the ability to manage multiple teams or projects within the same group. From pleasant - integration with Trello.
For meetings:
Coggle
Another interesting service for the work was presented by the Coggle development team.
The resource draws diagrams of connections, "mind maps" - this is the name of their creators. Bright and amazing notes will decorate the brainstorming, will allow to classify and store information.
Add illustrations, follow the chronology of events, publish on the site. Service is free - edit records online, download the result in several formats. The main thing is not to get confused.
Evernote
Evernote is a virtual notebook that keeps notes in one place.
Do you remember beautiful diaries from American films? Now it is available in electronic format. The resource saves multimedia files, makes it possible to write notes, arrange them, make sketches and sketches. Evernote is available on mobile devices.
The developer offers the user to arrange entries in folders depending on the topic.
There is a Business version that will establish teamwork and track the success of colleagues. The application has gained popularity - users of the worldwide network offer work with Evernote.
For registration:
Wordmark
The Wordmarks project is a startup of a Turkish developer. The function of the site is one — to choose the style of the text. You no longer have to spend endless hours in MSWord to examine the fonts in order from the drop-down menu. Visit wordmark, enter a phrase and enjoy your choice.
ColorScheme
Russian site ColorScheme will help you choose a palette for the project. Gamma can be selected endlessly, enjoying a variety of colors. The top menu presents popular tools. “Color model” will help to generate a colorful scheme, just select the main color. Then you can see how the palette will look on the page of your site.
The resource is filled with thematic articles and tables: the name of the colors, the colors of cars or threads for embroidery. Tools will be useful: a color calculator or an HTML color converter.
Color tool
Another Google development is the Color tool. A serious color matching tool. The site allows you to create gammas and apply them to interface models. The developer recommends choosing primary and secondary colors, choosing a palette in a corporate style, or creating a new gamut. A feature is the ability to check the combination of colors for readability. The algorithm is based on a recommendation on the availability of web content (https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/visual-audio-contrast-contrast.html).
Be curious and click on the “?” Sign in the upper right corner of the screen. An excellent collection of articles on style and color science will open for you.
The selection was prepared by the copywriter of the Logomachine - Alena Kovalenko