Exciting New Tools for Designers, September 2024

This time around we are aiming to simplify life, with some light and fast analytics, an all-in-one productivity dashboard, an excellent project scope management tool, and some helpful Mac utilities among other goodies. Enjoy!

Seline is minimalist, privacy-friendly analytics. It is cookie-less but still provides feedback on user journeys and profiles, and it is easy to set up.

Linky could help you keep track of who is responsible for what in a team, whether you are part of that team or an outside freelancer. It’s an org chart for Slack with automatic updates and simple search.

Large agencies have account execs to manage client agreements and expectations, but for smaller studios and solo designers scope creep can be a real bugbear. Scopey aims to handle this by helping you create detailed quotes, and manage change requests and pricing updates easily.

This free tool from GDPR compliance software provider ComplyDog allows you to enter a domain and receive a detailed report on the presence of cookies and the domain’s cookie compliance.

Making Today aims to help you stay organized more easily by putting all your scheduling, to-dos, notifications, and project management into a single dashboard. It integrates with a whole range of third-party tools too.

Wisp is a headless CMS blog solution, with an intuitive editor and which aims to be simple to plug into an existing website. It’s hosted and comes with SEO built in.

This AI code generator could really speed up your process by creating editable UI elements from prompts. Download the result as HTML code with CSS or Tailwind classes.

Drop allows you to securely send and share files up to 5GB for free. Paid plans allow the transfer of larger files and storage of up to 2048GB.

For when you need that little extra boost of motivation, Focumon is a gasified productivity timer that collects and trains ‘monsters’ for you as you work.

Felo searches the web in multiple languages and translates the results to answer your questions.

Hosted by Jam, this is a collection of free, open-source tools for developers. The utilities available include a JSON formatter, a CSS inline for Email, and a HEX to RGB converter among others.

Lottielab has added animation editing with interactivity, which means you can now design, animate, and add interactivity all within the design editor.

WP Adminify customizes your WordPress dashboard, letting you create the best interface for your productivity needs.

It can be a pain to clear anything off your screen you want to keep private when you need to screen share. This app hides everything for you while you need it to. It can even automatically detect when you are presenting and clear the screen if you forget.

This handy little gadget for MacBooks brings up a floating Finder window when you move the cursor over the notch. You get access to file navigation without having to switch focus or move windows around.