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Product Design is more than just mastering MS Paint 🎨
Design is more than just pretty pixels (no offense to pretty pixels). It's about user experience, a deep understanding of product, and mastery of tools like Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Paint.
These design resources will help:
📥 Lingo: Organize, share, and use all your visual assets in one place
📱 SmartMockups: Create stunning product screenshots in seconds
🖌 Pattern: A gorgeous, focused, drawing application for the iPad
💎 Angle: Get 200+ iOS & Android vector device mockups for Sketch
😎 Design Inc: Find high quality design work done, on-demand
👶 KiddoPaint: Like Microsoft Paint in your browser (have fun)
For more, follow the Design Tools topic on Product Hunt.
These design resources will help:
📥 Lingo: Organize, share, and use all your visual assets in one place
📱 SmartMockups: Create stunning product screenshots in seconds
🖌 Pattern: A gorgeous, focused, drawing application for the iPad
💎 Angle: Get 200+ iOS & Android vector device mockups for Sketch
😎 Design Inc: Find high quality design work done, on-demand
👶 KiddoPaint: Like Microsoft Paint in your browser (have fun)
For more, follow the Design Tools topic on Product Hunt.
GIFs are the new elevator pitch 💰🤗
GIFs: moving images, a simple concept that's now the universal language of the internet. Research (likely) shows a direct correlation between the rise of GIFs and people's decreasing attention span online.
The question is... Can you describe your product in a GIF? Easier said than done, but here are some of the best examples we've seen:
• Oristand's portable and super affordable standing desk
• Blockhead's clever solution to your MacBook charger not fitting
• Register to Vote's ID scanning solution is brilliant
• Papier's beautiful note-taking app in your browser
• Highly's Medium-style highlighting in every app and website
• Zoom, Enhance! which turns your regular photos into zoomable GIFs
The question is... Can you describe your product in a GIF? Easier said than done, but here are some of the best examples we've seen:
• Oristand's portable and super affordable standing desk
• Blockhead's clever solution to your MacBook charger not fitting
• Register to Vote's ID scanning solution is brilliant
• Papier's beautiful note-taking app in your browser
• Highly's Medium-style highlighting in every app and website
• Zoom, Enhance! which turns your regular photos into zoomable GIFs
Google's new experimental app 👀
Google just released an experimental, VR-ish camera app. Sprayscape uses the phone’s gyroscope to capture faces, places, and spaces in a unique way.
The search engine's been busy attempting to fill your homescreen with new apps like Allo, Duo, Trips, and a magical new version of Google Photos, all released in the past month. ✨
The search engine's been busy attempting to fill your homescreen with new apps like Allo, Duo, Trips, and a magical new version of Google Photos, all released in the past month. ✨
The geekiest email you'll receive today 🤓 📊
The spreadsheet was one of the first killer apps back in the day. Then Microsoft turned it into a form of entertainment with a program called “Excel” (it went viral in offices everywhere). Today, there are a lot of additions and alternatives to Microsoft's viral sensation:
• Airtable is a gorgeous application that does just about anything
• Fieldbook lets you create a database as easily as a spreadsheet
• Awesome Table displays your Google Sheets data beautifully
• Automated Spreadsheets is purrrfect for anyone aggregating ad data
• Quip Spreadsheets for teams is pretty great
Follow the nerdiest topic on Product Hunt and read through The Ultimate Guide to Google Sheets to become a spreadsheet expert. 🤓
• Airtable is a gorgeous application that does just about anything
• Fieldbook lets you create a database as easily as a spreadsheet
• Awesome Table displays your Google Sheets data beautifully
• Automated Spreadsheets is purrrfect for anyone aggregating ad data
• Quip Spreadsheets for teams is pretty great
Follow the nerdiest topic on Product Hunt and read through The Ultimate Guide to Google Sheets to become a spreadsheet expert. 🤓
New from Facebook 💼
Facebook's strategy is clear: own every aspect of your life. Last week the social network launched a Craigslist competitor and a new standalone Events app, while Zuckerberg gave us a preview of your future life in VR (watch this demo from Oculus Connect).
Now Facebook wants to own your work life with the release of Workplace, the long awaited “Slack competitor”. None of this would have been possible if Justin Timberlake hadn't suggested dropping the The. 😎
Now Facebook wants to own your work life with the release of Workplace, the long awaited “Slack competitor”. None of this would have been possible if Justin Timberlake hadn't suggested dropping the The. 😎
Get 💩 done with these apps
Happy Monday! The week is just beginning. Start by exploring this Productivity Hacks list and by the end of this email you will become a productivity machine. 💪
💻 Toby organizes all your browser tabs into searchable visual lists
💌 Boomerang is your AI assistant for writing perfect emails
🌐 AccessURL lets you share login access without sending passwords
🎵 Background Music is your audio control for individual Mac apps
🏃 Escape tracks the unnecessary time you spend on distracting sites
For more, follow the Productivity Topic on Product Hunt.
💻 Toby organizes all your browser tabs into searchable visual lists
💌 Boomerang is your AI assistant for writing perfect emails
🌐 AccessURL lets you share login access without sending passwords
🎵 Background Music is your audio control for individual Mac apps
🏃 Escape tracks the unnecessary time you spend on distracting sites
For more, follow the Productivity Topic on Product Hunt.
The future is video selfies 📽😁
Video is everywhere these days. Your Facebook feed is full of it, Twitter's getting into the game, and YouTube is practically cool-cat-heaven. You may have noticed a few more videos on this website called Product Hunt. 😉
And with the advent of smartphones and broadband, we’re seeing an explosion of social video apps including:
• Tribe and Roger are are reinventing the walkie-talkie in different takes
• HouseParty is what a group FaceTime would be as a social network
• Squad is like Snapchat for groups of friends
• Airtime is Sean Parker’s video based app (when he’s not curing cancer)
• Amity is a new kind of messaging app (reserve your username ;)
For more, follow the Social Video Apps collection on Product Hunt. 🤗
And with the advent of smartphones and broadband, we’re seeing an explosion of social video apps including:
• Tribe and Roger are are reinventing the walkie-talkie in different takes
• HouseParty is what a group FaceTime would be as a social network
• Squad is like Snapchat for groups of friends
• Airtime is Sean Parker’s video based app (when he’s not curing cancer)
• Amity is a new kind of messaging app (reserve your username ;)
For more, follow the Social Video Apps collection on Product Hunt. 🤗
Salesforce buying Twitter? 🤔
Rumors are swirling about Twitter's future as its said to be preparing for a sale. It's reported that Disney and Google are no longer in the running, which leaves Salesforce a potential (unexpected) acquirer.
Meanwhile, an open-source Twitter alternative is making a headlines. Mastodon will feel familiar to fellow Tweetdeck fans. Reserve your first name handle just in case this takes off. 😉
Meanwhile, an open-source Twitter alternative is making a headlines. Mastodon will feel familiar to fellow Tweetdeck fans. Reserve your first name handle just in case this takes off. 😉
Google's new phone will make you switch to Android 😮
Yesterday, Google announced a suite of new products to compete with Amazon, Oculus, Apple, and even our wifi-loving friends at eero. To recap, here’s what Google announced:
📱Google Pixel: iPhone competitor with 3mm headphone jack technology
🙇Daydream View: A virtual reality headset made out of fabric (clever)
🌐Google WiFi: A new kind of WiFi system (because wifi > everything)
🏠Google Home: A competitor to Alexa (P.S. soon you'll be able to talk to Product Hunt via Google Home) 😺
Now all you need to know is the best 150 Google Now commands to make all that new hardware extra intelligent.
📱Google Pixel: iPhone competitor with 3mm headphone jack technology
🙇Daydream View: A virtual reality headset made out of fabric (clever)
🌐Google WiFi: A new kind of WiFi system (because wifi > everything)
🏠Google Home: A competitor to Alexa (P.S. soon you'll be able to talk to Product Hunt via Google Home) 😺
Now all you need to know is the best 150 Google Now commands to make all that new hardware extra intelligent.
Twitter bots! (RIP, Microsoft’s Tay) 🐥🤖
Remember Tay, Microsoft’s Twitter bot that went cray? It was fun while it lasted, but there are some very practical, non-offensive Twitter Bots today:
🏕 OOOTwitter sends an out-of-office reply to your @mentions
⚡️PowerPack is an entire auto-reply toolkit you can personalize
🤔 #AskJelly is all you need to tweet to get your questions answered
🤖 Botmoji from Emojipedia will help you become an emoji master
🌟 Unfavinator deletes all (or some) of your twitter likes (a recent trend)
Check out the full collection of Twitter Bots on Product Hunt.
🏕 OOOTwitter sends an out-of-office reply to your @mentions
⚡️PowerPack is an entire auto-reply toolkit you can personalize
🤔 #AskJelly is all you need to tweet to get your questions answered
🤖 Botmoji from Emojipedia will help you become an emoji master
🌟 Unfavinator deletes all (or some) of your twitter likes (a recent trend)
Check out the full collection of Twitter Bots on Product Hunt.
