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A list of modern design tools, blog posts about them, and people working on them.
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A list of modern design tools, blog posts about them, and people working on them.

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# Modern Design Tools



The tools we have for design are dangerously disconnected from their mediums. They cant work with real data. They cant work with real code. They cant be used to be create real things. How can we design when we cant see, touch, move, or work with our designs.



Design is more than pixels, design is an iterative, interactive, collaborative feedback cycle between designer and work. There are people thinking about solutions to this. There are companies and developers working on tools. There are apps you can use today.



This is a list of all the blog posts, people, experiments, tools, services, apps and plugins that are part of a new generation of design tools; modern design tools that put the designer back in touch with their work.



## Table of Contents



- [Blog Posts](#blog-posts)

- [People](#people)

- [Apps](#apps)

- [Unlaunched Apps](#unlaunched-apps)

- [Other](#other)



## Blog Posts



- [Let’s Redesign Web Design](https://medium.com/@callmevlad/let-s-redesign-web-design-2d67aec798e)

- [Modern Design Tools: Using Real Data](https://medium.com/bridge-collection/modern-design-tools-using-real-data-62d499e97482)

- [Designing for a Juicier Web](https://medium.com/@UserJourneys/designing-for-a-juicier-web-5549c6eb6008)

- [On Tools](https://medium.com/@bjornmeansbear/on-tools-7fae8923dbe3)

- [The Past, Present and Future of Design Tools](https://mgedium.com/@darrylgray/the-past-present-and-future-of-design-tools-529e83532530)

- [Design has changed, but the tools have not](https://medium.com/@darrylgray/design-has-changed-but-the-tools-have-not-168d546753ea)

- [Guiding Principles for Design Tools](https://medium.com/@PatrickHebron/guiding-principles-for-design-tools-8a9261bd5150)

- [Modern Design Tools: Adaptive Layouts](https://medium.com/bridge-collection/modern-design-tools-adaptive-layouts-e236070856e3)

- [Motion Design is the Future of UI](https://blog.prototypr.io/motion-design-is-the-future-of-ui-fc83ce55c02f)

- [Designers Will Rule the Web](https://webflow.com/blog/designers-will-rule-the-web)

- [Design: Meet the Internet](https://medium.com/figma-design/design-meet-the-internet-4140774f2872)

- [Introducing Vector Networks](https://medium.com/figma-design/introducing-vector-networks-3b877d2b864f)

- [Programmers Design Differently: Why I Built a CSS Plugin for Sketch 3](https://medium.com/sketch-app-sources/programmers-design-differently-why-i-built-a-css-plugin-for-sketch-3-52a1246305a4)

- [A (Cheeky) Guide to Creative Tools](https://medium.com/@callmevlad/a-cheeky-guide-to-creative-tools-e5e3388c4614)



## People



- [Jon Gold](https://twitter.com/jongold) Designer/developer that worked on algorithmic design at [The Grid](https://thegrid.io/). Currently working on top secret React design tools.

- [Sean Grove](https://twitter.com/sgrove) Creator of an experimental design app called Bushido

- [Vlad Magdalin](https://twitter.com/callmevlad) CEO of Webflow and Russian spy

- [Clark Valberg](https://twitter.com/clarkvalberg) CEO of InVision

- [Josh Puckett](https://twitter.com/joshpuckett) Author of a blog series called "Modern Design Tools"

- [Bret Victor](https://twitter.com/worrydream) No description needed

- [John Coates](https://twitter.com/punksomething) Creator of a CSS plugin for Sketch

- [Dan Tocchini](https://twitter.com/d4tocchini) Creator of Grid Stylesheets and founder of The Grid

- [Jon Nordby](https://twitter.com/jononor) A human from The Grid. Created Imgflo and works on a bunch of GEGL stuff.

- [K-2052](https://twitter.com/k_2052) A human with an unhealthy obsession over building better tools for the web. Working on an app called Sqircle.



## Apps



- [Macaw](http://macaw.co/)

- [Webflow](https://webflow.com/)

- [Atomic](https://atomic.io/)

- [Structor](https://github.com/ipselon/structor)

- [InVision](https://www.invisionapp.com/)

- [Figma](https://www.figma.com/)

- [Pixate](http://www.pixate.com)

- [Cardd](https://carrd.co)

- [Proto](https://proto.io/)

- [Marvel App](https://marvelapp.com/)



## Unlaunched Apps



- [Bushido](http://bushidoinc.tumblr.com/) An experimental design tool. Seems to be stalled or dead.

- [Scarlet](http://scarlet.macaw.co/) Codename for the sequel to Macaw. Works on CSS/HTML directly. Macaw was recently acquired by InVision, so Scarlet will likely pop up there in some form.

- [Sqircle](https://twitter.com/sqircleapp) A perhaps never launching vision for a new design tool



## Other



- [Sketch CSS](https://github.com/JohnCoates/CSSketch)

- [The Grid](https://thegrid.io/) Not a design tool exactly, but the tech behind it definitely qualifies.

- [Craft](https://www.invisionapp.com/craft)

- [react-designer](https://github.com/fatiherikli/react-designer) A vector editor built on React

- [Grid Style Sheets](https://gridstylesheets.org/)

- [Framer.js](http://framerjs.com/)



### License



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