Today the competition in the IT sector has become ruthless. A website has become part of our life. People are too busy to sell their products orally, hence websites are the best medium to market, communicate and socialize. Increase in demand for great responsive websites has also escalated the work pressure of web developers. The era has changed; when smart phones are dominating our world, it has become a huge responsibility of the designers to bring in latest developments and techniques in their designs to keep the users engaged.
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2015 has received many new entries for exciting and unique development tools that have made the shoulders of the designers to relax a little bit. Each web developer has a set of tools that they use in their projects quite frequently. Few of these are extremely well known and are hard to replace but there are the others which have become outdated. It is an advice for the techies to try out different tools in the market for better productivity. Therefore, listed here are 25 Best Web Design & Development Tools 2016 including prototyping tools, testing tools and exclusive tools for app development. These tools aim to simplifying your work and save a lot of project time.
Atom
Atom is a text editor that’s modern, approachable, yet hackable to the core—a tool you can customize to do anything but also use productively without ever touching a config file.
Zeplin
Useful for development stage, when designs are finished. In other words, it makes for easy referencing colors, layout and alignment details for View/Front-end development.
Local-storage based mockup tool
The mockup tool that uses your local storage as backend.
Styleguide
All you need to do is to add the Styleguide to a separate folder in your project. Use it as your CSS. You just need to import the generated file inside your HTML and you are all set! This way the Styleguide will be synced with your project. Isn’t that awesome!?
Surge.sh
Makes it easy for developers to deploy projects to a production-quality CDN through Grunt, Gulp, npm.
is.js
A JavaScript library with easy checks for variable types, common date functions, regular expressions, environment, etc.
AlertifyJS
Javascript framework for developing pretty browser dialogs and notifications.
ai2html
Open-source script for Adobe Illustrator that converts your Illustrator documents into html and css.
LiveReload
This tool monitors changes in the file system. As soon as you save a file, it is preprocessed as needed, and the browser is refreshed.
webpack
webpack is a bundler for modules. The main purpose is to bundle JavaScript files for usage in a browser, yet it is also capable of transforming, bundling, or packaging just about any resource or asset.
Dimensions
A browser extension for coders to measure screen dimensions. Currently only available for Chrome.
Fabricator
A tool for building website UI toolkits and style guides.
Codesign
Project management tool for visual feedback. Discuss web pages, upload designs & screenshots. Get to-dos done in collaborative way.
Placemat
Some pretty nice placeholder nouns for your site.
Typegenius
Using the same font everywhere isn’t always the most aesthetically pleasing option for design. Type Genius allows you to enter your base font and then shows you nice options to pair with it on graphics.
Responsive Image Breakpoints Generator
One image for all screen resolutions and different devices is not enough. An image per pixel is too much – so how can someone automatically choose the optimal responsive image sizes?
cssFilter
A visual tool to create custom and instagram like photo filters in css.
Pingendo
Create quality HTML prototypes quickly, using popular open source tools like Bootstrap, LESS, Fontawesome and more.
Bootstrap Studio
Desktop application that helps web developers and designers create responsive websites using the Bootstrap framework. It supports a wide range of components and advanced features that make you more productive.
SVGnest
Free and open-source alternative that solves this problem with a geometric approach, using a genetic algorithm for global optimization. It works for arbitrary containers and concave edge cases, and performs on-par with existing commercial software.
CSSfmt
Tool that automatically formats CSS source code, inspired by Gofmt, and built on top of the PostCSS ecosystem.
JSON Editor Online
Web-based tool to view, edit, and format JSON. It shows your data side by side in a clear, editable treeview and in a code editor.
Plato
JavaScript source code visualization, static analysis, and complexity tool.
Web Developer
The Web Developer extension adds a toolbar button to the browser with various web developer tools. This is the official port of the Web Developer extension for Firefox.
Yellow Lab Tools
Open source project by Gaël Métais. This tool gives you a lot of information and some unique features not seen in other tools such as a view of when JavaScript interactions with the DOM during the loading of the page and other code validation issues.
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