Awesome-Design-Tools

A curated catalog of design tools and plugins, organized by category, that began as a community project of the Flawless App team and now lives under Abstract.

Awesome Design Tools is a long, categorized list of design tools and plugins, the kind of repository that documents every entry without grading it. Tools go in this file and plugins in a companion file called Awesome Design Plugins. To find something you scan the table of contents or search a keyword like animation or prototyping. Contributors are asked to follow a contribution guideline and to label free, open source, and Mac only tools. The project metadata records JavaScript as the primary language under an MIT license.

The README opens with company news rather than tool listings. The list grew out of Flawless App, the team's first company, a five-person outfit that since 2015 had shipped tools like Flawless App, Reduce, and Flawless Feedback. Awesome Design Tools is described as one of the community-driven initiatives they invested in. Now the team has joined Abstract, a design delivery platform, and is focused on building the Abstract SDK. An FAQ addresses what happens next for the list.

Submitting a tool means sending a pull request against the right file, design tools here and plugins in the plugin list, with the correct labels attached. The contribution guidelines are described as simple. A section of the README points to an account, referred to as Lisa, for questions on Twitter.

The categories are where the list shows its range. Accessibility tools include Axe, Color Oracle, and Inclusive Design from Microsoft. Animation tools run from After Effects to Lottie and GSAP. Augmented reality gets a section with Lens Studio, Spark AR Studio, Unity, and Vuforia. Collaboration tools cover Airtable, Asana, Jira, and Excalidraw. Each entry sits under a heading with a one-line description of what it does.

• Source 1 · Project repository
• Source 2 · README