10 design tools to make life easy

Some people have such a great blend of right and left brain that they made themselves a career in graphic design. The rest of us have Canva.

Even so, our mockups and landing pages often need a touch more to tell a story — illustrations with diverse characters, 3D images, and even just blobs.

We’ve seen a huge number of resources recently to help with quick design solutions, whether you’re a marketer, a designer saving time, or a bootstrapping maker crafting a pitch.

This list is about to save you some design time.

Blobs 2.0 - Simple blob generator

Presentations by Pitch - 50+ templates for your Pitch

Float - Tool to transform your static artwork into moving creations

Amigos - Hand-drawn illustrations of characters that are remixable

Haikei - Tool to generate unique SVG shapes, backgrounds, and patterns

MagicPattern Toolbox - Toolkit of patterns, gradients, and, yup, more blobs

Studyum 3D Icons - 28 customizable 3D icons

THINGS - 3D customizable device mockups

Removal.ai - AI-powered background removal

Sensa Emoji - Free, vector, and open-source emoji set

And once you’ve made it through the list, take a break with this game to identify fonts.

As big users of Grammarly, we’re watching this new AI-based editing tool, InstaText.

Maker Matej Guid explains

“Unlike grammar checkers that mainly focus on correcting grammatical errors, InstaText also enriches the text and makes it more readable and understandable.”

There have also been a lot of new AI-based copywriting tools lately, all working to grow their user base. We covered a few of them here. It will be interesting to see how Grammarly adjusts to the competition.