To give a fresh start to your designing career, you need to look up for the advanced tools and trends that are launched in the market. These tools and trends can help you kick start your designing career if you are new in the industry. And if not then you can polish your skills and improve to excel.
To help you design better, here is a roundup of the latest tools that can expand your career in the designing field.
YOUR STACK
Are you facing trouble while sharing your work with others? Well, here is an easy way to do it. YourStack is a public beta system that is designed to enable you to share all your files and documents. It has exciting features and specs which makes it super fun to use.
CALCOLOR
Do you have a passion to design a creative logo in one go? Calcolor is the right option for you. With its advanced software, you can understand the usage and importance of every color in the palette. This tool has a unique contextual description for every color code that makes it easier for you to create a professional logo design usa.
FLOWMAPP PERSONAS TOOL
Need a hand with understanding your audience in a better way?
FlowMapp Personas Tool gives you deep insight into your audience’s attitude towards your designs. By knowing what they want helps you sketch a map to offer them a better user experience.
INVISIBLE LINE EDITOR
Now align your texts with Invisible Line Editor that helps you do formatting in a specific manner. You can effectively drag to center, click right or left to align the text.
LAMBDATEST
Do you want to know how you can create a perfect logo?
You can create a perfect logo by monitoring every step and using high-end tools. With LambdaTest, you can set a schedule for screenshot testing that will help you check the image quality time-to-time.
KINETIC SLIDER
Being a fully customizable WebGL slider based on PixiJS and Gap, Kinetic Slider allows you to make swift transitions from one slide to another. It gives you access to which you can easily navigate between pages, effects and designing tools.
REMOTE STASH
Are you designing team lead who need assistance to manage the in-house team, freelancers and the work? Here is an efficient solution for you. With Remote Stash, you can manage all the tools, tasks and teams by monitoring your database. In this way, you can also manage your tools and categorize them efficiently.
BINARY SEARCH
Binary Search helps you create quick algorithms that allow you to create fragments to practice and master designing skills. It works more like a game which automatically creates problems and asks you to save it within time.
FLOW FIELDS
Flow Fields create a noisy effect by using a particle simulation to visualize a field of directional vectors. You can use this tool to create logos and add sound effects to deliver prime designs to your customers.
ALL DESIGN CONFERENCES
All Design Conferences is the best app for designers to explore more opportunities in 2020. With this app, you can search for relevant designing conferences happening near you and showcase your art pieces and fine design.
SNACK THIS
A highly advanced tool that is used to generate text gifs in. Snack This can also be used to download logo design, create your version and share it file to your brand’s social profile. You can even edit to add texts and export the quality designs to your clients.
SHIMMERY TEXT
Do you want to add that animated text element with editable controls? The shimmery text uses SVG and GSAP to let you create amazing artistic designs.
NO-CODE COFFEE
For efficient designing, No-Code Coffee is a daily email newsletter that is packed with all the latest features about the tools and tech-related to the designs. It’s free and works absolutely perfect to get inspired.
SCREENIE
Need an app that works on AppStore specifically? Screenie is the right option for you. It works on the Mac to manage screenshots. However, the best part about this app is you can search the text inside the screenshots.
DESIGN PASSWORD
A very practical tool that is effectively used to create cool designs. Design Password is like a small generator that creates tiny codes or passwords that are easy to remember. You can use them to secure your project description and design credentials.
MONDAY HERO
Monday Hero is a smart converter that converts your designs into codes so you can easily access them. It saves your time, effort and fuels your performance. You can even use this tool on your smartphones or iPads due to its smart user interface. And the best part about the tool is that it is accessible in multiple languages including Kotlin, Flutter, Swift, and React.
MOTION
Looking for a free and simple animated SVG editor? Well, here you go!
Motion is the best tool that is easy to download and requires no info. It efficiently works on Mac or Windows and allows you to edit hefty data in one go. In case you want to use the optimum features then you can download the premium version which is also available the Google Play Store, AppStore and iTunes.
GREENHOUSE VECTOR ICONS
Do you need a tool to give a fresh vibe to your designs? Greenhouse Vector Icons include a set of flat icons that has three versions with a green (spring) theme. So, if you are thinking to add a summary and spring effect in your designs, Green House Vector Icons are perfect for you.
MAGICAL RAINBOW GRADIENTS
With Magical Rainbow Gradients, you can learn new ways to add more effects to make your designs look attractive. If you wonder how it works then the system uses Houdini and React Hooks to create animations. Magical Rainbow Gradients allows you to use the rainbow gradient palette in your designs.
CHOCOLATE VALENTINE
Chocolate Valentine is a perfect fun and comic-style font with bold letterforms that gives you the perfect child-like feel. It also has a wide collection of fonts and design templates with upper- and lower-case letters and numbers.
GIANT
With a detailed set of characters, Giant is a trendy outline style typeface that has advanced writing fonts. It is extremely high x-height which means it enables the user to use unlimited tools in the app.
DARK LIGHT
Do you want to add more character to your typographic designs? Well, Dark Light has got a variety of handwriting style that allows you to make your design look more interesting. In typographies where writing style plays the game, you can excel by using the right fonts and styles.
JET BRAINS MONO
Jet Brains Mono gives a better user experience to all the consumers. If you want to add interesting texts in your designs then this app comes with a smart user interface. Jet Brains Mono also enables you to access 145 languages.
RED HOOK
What’s better than doing your tasks in less time and Red Hook is a perfect option to do that. It has a double layer font with a light fill and slab outline that adds more character in your texts. According to the creators of this tool, Red Hook was designed to ease the functions of the developers and designers.
THICKER BLACK
Thicker Black is the tool that can effectively add the extra black typeface thickness in your letters. Whether you are using the super-sized typeface or smaller ones, it works great for both. Thicker Black is available for free and you can use the full version for commercial and non-commercial use.
WHAT ARE THE LATEST TRENDS?
After learning about all the latest tools and apps, here comes the part where you should know why the latest designing trends are important to follow and how effectively they are used to create mind-blowing logo designs.
But before jumping on the trends you should know why they are influencing the digital market. Well, every year new trends are launched in the market that offers assistance and allow the user to create optimum designs.
Have a look at the list of new overly-hyped trends that are influencing the graphic designing industry:
- Gradients
- Adaptive Logos
- Simplification
- Stability
- Authenticity
GRADIENTS
If you are a designer, you must know that gradients shades, colors, and patterns are highly effecting the designs that are being made. Not only in 2020 but the gradient designs will continue to rise in the next year as well. They are simply affordable and you can utilize them efficiently to add more character to your designs. Also, if you are used to adding the concealing and bold effect then you can use the gradient shades to conceal and blend tones.
ADAPTIVE LOGOS
With the advancement in tech and trends, electronic media is adopting new tools and ways to excel in the market. This is highly affecting the digital market and influencing the ways designers used to operate. Where one side you can display your logos attractively on the desktop, your mobile phones might not make it look that creative.
To help you sort out such an issue you need responsive designs that can work perfectly on multiple channels. This year the trend of the adaptive logo will take over the market with its efficient features. Now if you wonder what an adaptive logo design is then it’s more like a design that has multiple versions that allow you to design logos and channelize them without any issues. Also, the adaptive logos are consistent so you’ll not face any trouble with them.
SIMPLIFICATION
In the modern era where fast-paced tech is running the digital world, you don’t have to go too crazy about making changes in your designs. The more complex idea you’ll go for, the intricate it’ll become for you to implement it.
According to the tech veterans, this year, if you want to design smart and effective logos or graphics then the key tip is to keep it simple. In case your old graphic is too shiny or complex than use smart tools to make them look simple and attractive.
For example, the new old and new Uber Logo might look similar to you but it was something else before getting global recognition. However, simplification is the thing that their designers went constant with. They didn’t make so many adjustments or use tools to change it all over. Their team made slight changes that made it look super simple which added more value to the brand’s name. Also, it’s simple and decent design is the reason why it is known globally.
STABILITY
Stability is the biggest thing you need to work on. With the rapid changes in the designing patterns, colors, and themes, consistency is the key. If there is a space where you need to change or add more effects to create an effective logo design then try not to change its essence. Revamping a logo design is a great idea but removing its essence can raise questions on your brand.
If you want your brand to reflect the same essence then it’s better to make changes that don’t leave an impact on your brand image.
AUTHENTICITY
Authenticity is the most important thing to consider before designing or launching anything in the market. No matter how great designs you create but if they are not authorized, they’ll be of no use. This year the most overhyped trend is authenticity with whatever type of design you create. Whether it’s a typographic logo or one with animated texts, it should reflect integrity.
To create a design that can speak for your brand, it’s important to make sure it’s unique and hold a creative sense. Let’s consider a typical example that you can relate to. Well, the logo design of Coca Cola hasn’t been changed since the time it was launched. With the changes and improvement being made in the market, the company could’ve risked changing its logo design but they didn’t. This is what shows a logo design authenticity.
THE BOTTOM LINE
You might be a Pro in designing and crafting but if you follow these latest tools and trends, you can definitely master the skills of creating a perfect logo design.
Sarah Jay is a senior logo design developer. With a decade worth of experience in the field of designing, she loves to inspire others with her work. She also has a wide variety of additional skills which include, but are not limited to, creating a custom logo design for various companies.
