As a designer, or somebody interested in design there are so many apps on the market that can provide great benefits. They offer easier and faster ways of doing things; ultimately saving you time, and even money!
At Kaizen Print, we understand how important design is – we are surrounded by it every day, and we love it. We believe that design is just as important as print… and it sells – fact!
Apps provide a great way of staying up to date with the latest techniques and ways of doing things in the industry, as well as allowing us to connect with others.
Below is a list of the best apps that we believe can help you on your journey to design perfection:
For productivity – Trello
Trello is an app that enables you to create a board that allows you to be organised on a daily basis. It is sleek and easy to use! You can drag and drop tasks to mark your progress and know where you are at each stage, from ideas to amends to final pieces.
You can navigate your tasks on your smartphone so you don’t have to be at a laptop, and it can be personalised.
For sociability – Dribbble
Dribbble acts as a hub for designers to share their work and chat. You can discover new designers, discuss designer things like processes you use and your design perspectives and create a network.
Want to discover other like-minded designers? Join the app!
For colours – PANTONE Studio
This is a virtual digital swatch book. A designers dream. Every designer has heard the word PANTONE 10,000 times … well this app includes over 10,000 colours. Perfect for that much needed inspiration. You can use it on-the-go to match hues from photos and generate colour palettes. You can then move on to share them, or sync them with your favourite design software programme.
For typography – Font Candy
This is a typography editor you can take with you anywhere. Add captions and font to your photos in an instant. Choose from hundreds of different fonts and give your social media channels that design edge with this amazing tool!
For doodling – Draw Pad Pro
For those ideas that pop into your head that you need to transfer to paper, this app is your new best friend. Jot down your thoughts, sketch and save them for later.
Those early design stages can be the most important; making this app the essential addition to any design lover’s phone.
For creating easy graphics – Canva
This app is a beginners dream to design. You can choose from free images, texts, backgrounds and much more to create the perfect project. Have a play around whilst you’re on the bus or walking to your next meeting.
You can save all images to your phone and easily export them to make life that little bit easier.
For scanning images – Photoscan
We all have so many old pictures lying about in our drawers that we never get to look at. This app makes it easy to scan your images – why not incorporate some vintage looking pictures into your designs?
You could be surprised what magic you create.
For organisation – Evernote
Do you struggle to remember everything, no matter how much you try? Evernote has been deemed one of the best apps for keeping you organised. This app allows you to store all information, including web pages and enables you to access it from wherever you are or whatever system you’re using.
It works with every phone, laptop and mobile device. What’s not to love?
For remembering amazing colours – Color Schemer
As a designer, you’ve probably been out somewhere, seen a colour and wanted to add it to your next design project but when you arrived home you couldn’t find the exact swatch.
This app allows you to create RBG / HEX colour pairings, making it fun and easy to explore and create, then share your ideas.
For quick edits – VSCO
This app provides an amazing selection of effects that look great when editing images on the go. They look professional and you can even set up your own presets to make editing images with a coherent look that much easier.
At Kaizenprint, we love everything about design, and our knowledge allows us to help others.
Our amazing, in-house design team offer a variety of design services – from branding, to flyer design, to website design, to packaging design and everything in between. If you need a helping hand with any of your own design projects, please feel free to contact us. We will be more than happy to help you with your own concepts and ideas!
View some of our design projects on our website to see what we’ve been working on.