---
title: Tools and resources our designers are using right now
teaser: A list of what tools and resources are most relevant for our designers right
  now.
tags: design,tools,resource
author: Vendela Colavecchio
published_on: 2025-04-14
---

The landscape of tools we use and what sources of inspiration we find are always changing, but here's a non-exhaustive list of what our design team is using and looking at right now.

## Tools

* [Figma](https://www.figma.com/) - For interface design, prototyping, outputting and adjusting SVGs, creating presentations
* [FigJam](https://www.figma.com/figjam/) - For workshop facilitation, brain storming, digital whiteboarding, planning, creating project timelines
* [MyMind](https://mymind.com) - Used as a visual digital brain to save inspiration and ideas
* [User Interviews](https://www.userinterviews.com) - For sourcing candidates and conducting user interviews, good for finding candidates in a specific niche
* [Notion](https://www.notion.so) - Personal documents, note taking, calendar feature, to do tracking
* [Things](https://culturedcode.com/things/) - To do list management
* [Hyper](https://hyper.is) - An alternative to the default terminal
* [Cursor](https://www.cursor.com/en) - Code editor with AI superpowers
* [Adobe suite](https://www.adobe.com/) - Photoshop for photo editing/cropping and visual design, Media Encoder for converting files, Illustrator for custom SVG work
* [Tuple](https://tuple.app) - For pairing with remote coworkers
* [Feather Icons](https://feathericons.com) or [Hero Icons](https://heroicons.com) - A free set of icons to use in UI design
* [The Noun Project](https://thenounproject.com) - More elaborate or unique icons
* [Github Desktop](https://desktop.github.com/download/) - For git visualization and management
* [ChatGPT](https://chatgpt.com) - For content and idea generation
* [SVGOMG](https://jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg/) - Optimizing SVGs
* [Loom](https://www.loom.com) - For screen recording and demo-ing with narration
* [Canva](https://www.canva.com) - For use as a "CMS" for creative stuff that the marketing team needs (ads, social posts, etc)
* [CodePen](https://codepen.io) - For tinkering on code ideas and playing with CSS
* [Google Workspace](https://workspace.google.com) - For documentation, thoughts, planning, creating presentations, tracking data, taking notes

## Sources of inspiration and references

* [Mobbin](https://mobbin.com) - For UI inspiration
* [Dribbble](https://dribbble.com) - For UI inspiration
* [10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design](https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ten-usability-heuristics/) - Important UX concepts to keep in mind
* [A11y Project](https://www.a11yproject.com) - Referincing accessibility standards
* [CSS Tricks](https://www.a11yproject.com) - CSS details, tutorials, and best practices
* [thoughtbot's Customer Discovery Playbook](https://thoughtbot.com/playbook#customer-discovery) - For design thinking exercises to run with clients, questions to ask, and best practices on approaching early product work
* [Continuous Discovery](https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/continuous-discovery-habits-discover-products-that-create-customer-value-and-business-value_teresa-torres/28694244/item/84013480/#edition=59688443&idiq=45486380) by Teresa Torres - For early product work best practices
* [Newsletter by Nguyen Le](https://x.com/newincreative?lang=en) - UI & UX design
* [Newsletter by Dan Mall](https://danmall.com/newsletter/) - Ideas, news, the latest trends
* [Checklist.design](https://www.checklist.design) - UI inspiration
* [Footer.design](https://www.footer.design) - UI and branding inspiration
* [Guide to flexbox](https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/) and [Guide to CSS Grid](https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/) - For remembering all of the niche syntax and properties when using flexbox and css grid

Happy designing!