Smashing Magazine recently posted an excellent roundup of powerful time savers for web designers–a whopping 50 of them. Funny, trolling through a list of 50 web design tools built to help you save time doesn’t seem very efficient. That’s why you can find a recap of 4 of the most helpful/innovative/time saving ones below. They’re the perfect shortcuts for professionals or people working on a graphic design education–pretty much anyone who’s looking to be a lean, mean, efficient design machine.
This is a one-stop checklist for proofing work before it goes live. There are 28 items to tick off, so you can ask yourself if the metadata is in place or if all the images have alt tags before you release your site into the world. Add additional things to the list or scratch those that don’t apply. When it’s all done, an email receipt goes out to the team.
According to their own site, Visual Website Optimizer is undoubtedly the best A/B, split and multivariate testing software ever created by mankind. Can’t verify that, but this tool can help you quickly create and test multiple versions of your site.
Use this clearinghouse of shortcuts for Mac OS X, Photoshop, and more to save time and energy. Just type the name of the application in the search box and Keyonary serves up a list of keyboard shortcuts. It’s totally free, so thank the Keyonary creator by purchasing a cute porcelain coffee cup.
With all that extra time you’re saving, you might be able to catch a cat nap now and then. Make sure you don’t oversleep at your desk by setting a computer alarm with KuKu Klok.
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Here is another one: http://www.rgbtool.com
It is a simple color picker, very useful because you can save your palettes for future use.
Nice information
I’m a designer and my time is more valuable than lots of things - one thing i hate is paying bills, there’s some productivity sites out there like http://www.billstrust.com that are filling gaps in peoples lives slowly chipping away at time wasting peeves that we now take for granted (washing clothes used to take a day).