We just release our latest review about the hottest and newest things for designers released in June, 2016. We’ve included lots of marketing resources, startup resources, educational tools, email tools, image resources, icons, CMSs, CSS resources, and much more.
Almost everything on the list this month is free, with a few high-value paid apps and tools also included. They’re sure to be useful to designers and developers, from beginners to experts.
If we’ve missed something that you think should have been on the list, let us know in the comments. And if you know of a new app or resource that should be featured next month then write an email to us.
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Proud
Proud is a time management app (iOS and Mac) made just for busy people. It acts like an external brain for your ideas and thoughts to help you remember what’s important.
Perma
Perma is a productivity app for teams or individuals. It has tools for planning and organizing, collaboration, discussion, and more.
Picnic CSS
Picnic CSS gives your native HTML elements a boost so that you don’t have to mix your presentation classes with your HTML. It’s entirely modular so that each part can be easily modified and tested.
Mega Boilerplate
Mega Boilerplate is a set of handcrafted starter projects that are all optimized for ease of use and simplicity. It can be used with Node.js, static HTML5 sites, Electron, and more.
Real Time Users
Real Time Users lets you add a real time user counter to your site in under a minute. You can have it displayed plain or styled.
Bench
Bench is an easy to use collaboration tool for teams. All anyone needs to join a meeting is a secret link. There are free and paid accounts.
Smock
Smock lets you mockup and emulate a website on a mobile device.
Adobe Spark
Adobe Spark makes it simple to turn your ideas into social graphics, web stories, and animated videos, in just minutes.
Color Schemr
Color Schemr is a color palette generator that lets you create palettes, adjust opacity, preview how colors would look on a minimalist template, and more.
Colicious
Colicious is a great tool for finding colors to use on your next project. Just hit the space bar or click the screen to get a new color.
Illustrio
Illustrio is a library of customizable images for non-designers. You can customize the colors, text, and data for each one.
Pills
Pills is a tiny, responsive CSS grid. It’s mobile-first, uses the HTML5 Boilerplate head, and works with all modern browsers.
React D3 Library
The React D3 Library lets developers use D3 in React. It’s flexible, can be used with templates, and more.
Nicely Done
Nicely Done is a gallery of digital product inspiration. View by most popular, or by tags and categories.
Elementor
Elementor is a drag and drop live page builder for WordPress. It allows you to reach a whole new level of design with your WordPress pages.
Kickresume
Kickresume helps you create an outstanding résumé and cover letter in just minutes. It was created by designers, but approved by recruiters.
New VSCO
The New VSCO has a new design, with a seamless experience between editing and publishing, as well as more community features.
Hillo
If you use Trello, then you’ll want to check out Hillo. It lets you track all of the acitivty on your Trello boards at a glance.
Holmes
Holmes gives you fast and easy search inside a page. Search results are returned in real-time as you type.
Proppy
Proppy gives you beautiful, interactive proposals in an instant. It helps you stay organized, collaborate with others, and more.
Cucumbertown
Cucumbertown is a free food blog platform that allows you to unleash your creativity with simple recipe creation tools and more.
Dopamine
Dopamine offers a Reinforcement API that helps you hack user engagement and retention. You can deploy it for free in just minutes.
Messaging Design Kit
This Messaging Design Kit from Layer contains everything you need to create beautiful and functional rich messaging experiences.
TypeNetwork
TypeNetwork is a new model for type designers to develop, license, and use their typeface designs. It’s mission is to find and support the best type and publish it for the best designers.
Family.scss
Family.scss is a set of smart Sass mixins that help you manage the style of :nth-child elements.
Cutestrap
Cutestrap is a sassy, opinionated CSS framework, a tiny alternative to Bootstrap.
Discover.Typography
Discover.typography is a collection of typographic inspiration from the designers at H&Co.
PixelSquid
PixelSquid is a powerful image library that lets you introduce 3D into your design workflow. You can download images as layered PSDs or transparent PNGs, or even use their Photoshop plugin.
Checkbox.css
Checkbox.css is a tiny set of CSS3 animations for your checkboxes.
CreateBrief.com
CreateBrief.com is an easy to use design brief template generator. Just answer the questions to create your brief, no sign up required.
