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Design tools every frontend developer should consider learning to aid productivity

Ogurinka Benjamin on July 25, 2020

A few years back you might easily get a pass as a frontend developer just by knowing how to properly write mockups, build beautiful layouts and add...
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Umutcan Kuş

You can also take a look at Gravit Designer It is like a Illustrator running at browser.

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Derek D

Was just gonna say this. Gravit is really good, too.

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youhakin

Looks good!

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Ogurinka Benjamin

I'll take a look. Thanks💗

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Ogoluwa Ojewale • Edited

Great list, Sketch should be in this list IMO

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Ogurinka Benjamin • Edited

I will update the post to include sketch. Thanks

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Ogurinka Benjamin

It's so strange that I missed Sketch😅

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Hina-softwareEngineer

Is there any software like adobe Illustrator for linux Ubuntu?

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Matt Swensen

Probably Inkscape would be the closest alternative. Or a web-based tool like Figma.

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Ogurinka Benjamin

You could use Inkscape. It's the closest alternative💗

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Eddie • Edited

Lunacy by icons8 is the SKETCH alternative for windows and it supports very well sketch files so you can edit or create sketch files with it and its Totally free

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Ogurinka Benjamin

Nice. I'll check it out

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Eddie

So let me help you, below is the link to where to download and read more about it ONLY FOR WINDOWS
icons8.com/lunacy

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Jane Tracy 👩🏽‍💻

As a Designer going into the front end web. I totally agree with you, these tools are important to know. 💯