The Hack Design toolkit was created to help prospective designers discover the best tools for any project – from sketching, to publishing iPhone apps, and everything in between.
Firstly, we'd like to thank the app makers. You're the best of the best. Without you, designers like us couldn't work the way we do today, and this website could not possibly exist (in both a practical and functional sense).
We'd also like to thank our #{link_to 'Hack Design Lesson Curators', curators_path} for suggesting the best tools and personally endorsing their favorites. You guys and gals are awesome.
Finally, we owe major thanks to iusethis.com for collecting usage data on thousands of Mac and iOS apps. We used some of their data to seed our own "I Use This!" button. A complete list of their data that we're using is included below.
If you have any questions or feedback, please feel free to contact us at [email protected].
App Name | Value |
---|---|
After Effects CC | 547 |
Aperture | 3071 |
Axure | 29 |
Balsamiq Mockups | 212 |
Cheetah3D | 85 |
Cloud | 799 |
Coda 2 | 3155 |
ColorSnapper | 19 |
Dropbox | 9950 |
Droplr | 288 |
Ember | 1284 |
GitHub | 412 |
Hammer | 6 |
Hype 2 | 92 |
iA Writer | 117 |
Icon Slate | 20 |
Illustrator CC | 5247 |
ImageAlpha | 32 |
ImageOptim | 318 |
InDesign CC | 2692 |
Keynote | 8812 |
LittleIpsum | 64 |
Maya | 113 |
OmniGraffle | 1565 |
Photoshop CC | 9326 |
Pixa | 26 |
Pixelmator | 3802 |
Quartz Composer | 1688 |
Reflector | 31 |
Sketch 3 | 98 |
Skitch | 3136 |
Slicy | 10 |
Sublime Text | 422 |
Vim | 576 |