12 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 your ideas come from and teach you how to control the creative mess.
Muzli
"Secret source of inspiration" - positioned product creators. Expansion for Google Chrome automatically selects for you fresh and interesting news from the world of creativity. Muzli covers the best works of graphic designers, illustrations, fascinating photos, interesting opinions.
The extension is presented for two browsers: Google Chrome and Safari. Attention deserves the blog Muzli. Authors from different parts of the world publish creative notes, share experiences, talk about design and give advice.
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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 it is necessary to be inspired by the colors of summer on a gray St. Petersburg day, choose from a palette of up to 5 colors that bring joy to your soul. The site will show a selection of pictures in your own range.
For those who are looking for something specific, there is a text search for one or several keywords. Designspiration offers to save pictures into personal collections, sort by themes 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 yourself. The site is an online platform for creating a creative portfolio. Each user has a profile with information and a gallery of works. The creators have provided a page design - selection of color, fields for individualization of the portfolio. Works can be commented and evaluated in a positive way - there are no dysliks.
Behance offers a set of filters for your search: finished product, person or team. Sorting is possible by occupation, popularity, country. 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 is 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, sorting cards by task type or employee. Participants can attach colleagues to the task, if it is joint, create a checklist, if multi-level work is implied.
Completed tasks are located in the archive. Trello sets up alerts for changes on the board, you do not miss important.
Slack
Intense rhythm of life, the spread of freelancing and remote work, forced to abandon e-mail and look for alternative methods of communication.
Slack is not just an instant messenger. This is an application that integrates and tracks emails, news and mentions from many 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 on your smartphone or tablet and stay connected.
Hangouts
A great Google app that combines chat and video conferencing. Now it is not necessary to be around to hold a meeting and discuss the project.
The creators took care of the flexible settings - watch the video from YouTube, share files and even do joint drawing. A useful feature would be to save audio and video. Web version available and integrated into Slack.
Teamweek
Teamweek is a web-based application for project managers. The resource keeps track of working time, helps to understand what tasks are completed, estimate the time and level of loading of each employee. Simple visualization will help not to miss the deadline - no digital statistics.
The interface is a simple calendar. You fill in a short card with the name of the task, its description, the timing of preparation and the number of hours for implementation, and the program automatically builds the “road” for the project.
The developers presented the ability to manage multiple teams or projects within the same group. From the pleasant - integration with Trello.
Coggle
Another interesting service for the work was presented by the Coggle development team.
The resource draws diagrams of links, "mayndcards" - so called by their creators. Bright and amazing notes decorate brainstorming, allow to classify and store information.
Add illustrations, follow the chronology of events, publish on the site. The service is free - edit records online, upload 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 the 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 prompts the user to put the records in folders, depending on the topic.
There is a Business version that will improve teamwork, 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 start-up of a Turkish developer. The site has one function — select the text style. You no longer have to spend endless hours in MS Word to view the fonts from the drop-down menu in order. Visit wordmark, enter a phrase and enjoy the selection.
Colorscheme
Russian site ColorScheme will help you choose a palette for the project. Gamma can be chosen endlessly, enjoying a variety of colors. The top menu shows popular tools. "Color model" will help to generate a colorful scheme, just select the primary color. Then you can see how the palette will look like on your website page.
The resource is filled with thematic articles and tables: the name of the colors, the colors of the cars or threads for embroidery. Useful tools will be: color calculator or HTML color converter.
Color tool
Another Google development is the Color tool. A serious tool for the selection of colors. The site allows you to create scales and apply them to interface samples. The developer recommends choosing the primary and secondary colors, choosing a palette in the corporate style or creating a new range. A special feature is the ability to check the color combination for readability. The algorithm is based on web content accessibility recommendations (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 compilation was prepared by a copywriter of the Logmachine - Alena Kovalenko
For inspiration:
Muzli
"Secret source of inspiration" - positioned product creators. Expansion for Google Chrome automatically selects for you fresh and interesting news from the world of creativity. Muzli covers the best works of graphic designers, illustrations, fascinating photos, interesting opinions.
The extension is presented for two browsers: Google Chrome and Safari. Attention deserves the blog Muzli. Authors from different parts of the world publish creative notes, share experiences, talk about design and give advice.
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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 it is necessary to be inspired by the colors of summer on a gray St. Petersburg day, choose from a palette of up to 5 colors that bring joy to your soul. The site will show a selection of pictures in your own range.
For those who are looking for something specific, there is a text search for one or several keywords. Designspiration offers to save pictures into personal collections, sort by themes 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 yourself. The site is an online platform for creating a creative portfolio. Each user has a profile with information and a gallery of works. The creators have provided a page design - selection of color, fields for individualization of the portfolio. Works can be commented and evaluated in a positive way - there are no dysliks.
Behance offers a set of filters for your search: finished product, person or team. Sorting is possible by occupation, popularity, country. 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 is 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, sorting cards by task type or employee. Participants can attach colleagues to the task, if it is joint, create a checklist, if multi-level work is implied.
Completed tasks are located in the archive. Trello sets up alerts for changes on the board, you do not miss important.
Slack
Intense rhythm of life, the spread of freelancing and remote work, forced to abandon e-mail and look for alternative methods of communication.
Slack is not just an instant messenger. This is an application that integrates and tracks emails, news and mentions from many 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 on your smartphone or tablet and stay connected.
Hangouts
A great Google app that combines chat and video conferencing. Now it is not necessary to be around to hold a meeting and discuss the project.
The creators took care of the flexible settings - watch the video from YouTube, share files and even do joint drawing. A useful feature would be to save audio and video. Web version available and integrated into Slack.
Teamweek
Teamweek is a web-based application for project managers. The resource keeps track of working time, helps to understand what tasks are completed, estimate the time and level of loading of each employee. Simple visualization will help not to miss the deadline - no digital statistics.
The interface is a simple calendar. You fill in a short card with the name of the task, its description, the timing of preparation and the number of hours for implementation, and the program automatically builds the “road” for the project.
The developers presented the ability to manage multiple teams or projects within the same group. From the 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 links, "mayndcards" - so called by their creators. Bright and amazing notes decorate brainstorming, allow to classify and store information.
Add illustrations, follow the chronology of events, publish on the site. The service is free - edit records online, upload 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 the 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 prompts the user to put the records in folders, depending on the topic.
There is a Business version that will improve teamwork, 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 start-up of a Turkish developer. The site has one function — select the text style. You no longer have to spend endless hours in MS Word to view the fonts from the drop-down menu in order. Visit wordmark, enter a phrase and enjoy the selection.
Colorscheme
Russian site ColorScheme will help you choose a palette for the project. Gamma can be chosen endlessly, enjoying a variety of colors. The top menu shows popular tools. "Color model" will help to generate a colorful scheme, just select the primary color. Then you can see how the palette will look like on your website page.
The resource is filled with thematic articles and tables: the name of the colors, the colors of the cars or threads for embroidery. Useful tools will be: color calculator or HTML color converter.
Color tool
Another Google development is the Color tool. A serious tool for the selection of colors. The site allows you to create scales and apply them to interface samples. The developer recommends choosing the primary and secondary colors, choosing a palette in the corporate style or creating a new range. A special feature is the ability to check the color combination for readability. The algorithm is based on web content accessibility recommendations (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 compilation was prepared by a copywriter of the Logmachine - Alena Kovalenko
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/335272/
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