Product Design

The best lessons and design tools for professionals.

product Lessons

Joseph Huang

A Holistic Guide to Product Design

Joseph Huang — Product Design is the process of identifying a market opportunity, clearly defining the problem and then developing a robust solution to take to market. An effective Product Des...

Nir Eyal

Designing Habit-Forming Products

Nir Eyal — How do companies design experiences to repeatedly engage users? Designing for habits builds upon the principles of consumer psychology to create new routines. I’ve spent the pa...

Kyle Bragger

The Little Things Matter

Kyle Bragger — As the bar for great design keeps getting higher and higher, having a keen attention to detail will help your products stand apart from the crowd. Your app should delight its us...

Nathan Manousos

Designing Quality Products

Nathan Manousos — It’s time to stop churning out software and start creating quality products. Ideas are a dime a dozen. Design and Development tools are advanced. Let’s focus on what really matt...

Chris Lee

Designing with Code

Chris Lee — Some designers are terrified of touching code and others simply prefer other tools. Many of those who try it out, though, discover that web technologies are not only for impleme...

product Tools

Dropbox

Dropbox

Wherever You Are: Store your files in Dropbox and access them from your computers, phones, or tablets. Edit documents, automatically upload photos, and share videos from anywher...

Droplr

Droplr

Droplr simplifies file sharing for Mac users. Just drag any file to Droplr’s icon in your menubar, and it will provide a short link for easy sharing with anyone. It supports a w...

Ember

Ember

Ember is your digital scrapbook of things that inspire you - be it websites, photos, apps or other things. Just drag in images that you want to keep, organise them into relevant...

GitHub

GitHub

GitHub: A Platform for Code Sharing GitHub is a premier platform for sharing code. It is used by friends, co-workers, classmates, and even complete strangers. With a user base ...

LittleIpsum

LittleIpsum

LittleIpsum: The best Latin text generator for OS X. Incredibly quick and lightweight. Completely free! Option to wrap generated text in HTML tags. Generates words, se...

Pen and Paper

Pen and Paper

Hello, reader! If you don’t own a notebook and a nice pen, please do yourself a favor and stop reading this and go out and buy one. Make it a habit to use it. You’ll soon realiz...

Pixa

Pixa

Pixa is the ultimate image organizer for your Mac. As a designer, you own a vast amount of images, and it can be challenging to keep them organized. Pixa manages your pictures, ...

Play by Play

Play by Play

Featured in Apps Enhanced for Mountain Lion! Play by Play serves as your courtside announcer for the popular design community, Dribbble. This app provides a detailed account of...

Reflector

Reflector

Your iPhone or iPad on Your Computer: Ever wanted to see your iPhone or iPad on a larger screen? Play games, watch movies, demo apps or present to your computer from your iPhone...

Skitch

Skitch

Make your work perfect with Skitch. Skitch allows you to communicate your feedback and important ideas instantly. Here are some of the key features: Fast, Friendly Feedback ...

Slicy

Slicy

Slicy is a tool designed to streamline the process of turning PSD elements into images for the Web and Apps. Here are some of its key features: ✔ Simplified Workflow - Simply n...

Sublime Text

Sublime Text

Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, markup, and prose. You’ll love the slick user interface, extraordinary features, and amazing performance. Here are some thi...

Vim

Vim

Vim is a highly configurable text editor, designed to facilitate efficient text editing. It’s an enhanced version of the vi editor, which is distributed with most UNIX systems. ...

Work in Progress

Work in Progress

Work in Progress is a tool that enables you to receive quick feedback for your ongoing projects from the network of Creatives at Behance. Key Features: Capture your screen t...

iA Writer

iA Writer

iA Writer: A Practically Ideal Writing Environment “I thought TextEdit was simple until I tried Writer” - Erik Spiekermann Innovative Writing Technology Convert Markdown t...