Teamwork is about sharing ideas, finding better solutions, and having
more productive work. Collaboration tools for designers are essential
to improve their work with other team members and clients. The apps
listed below will let you share your ideas and designs, so that you can
communicate easily with clients or other co-workers.
Impress your clients with prototypes and simple feedback. With
FileSquare you can share your work with developers and others designers,
show it to clients and collect feedback with clear annotations in real
time. This application could also perform usability tests with mobile
interactive mockups. FileSquare is a tool for web agencies, software
houses, freelance developers and designers.
IdeaScale is a tool to practice brainstorming even at a
distance. Designers should have a lot of good ideas. Why not to try a
bit of brainstorming, involving co-workers everywhere? If you are
heading for bright, creative ideas, IdeaScale is the perfect
application. It can improve the generation of new ideas, comments,
opinions. IdeaScale offers a suggestion box software and a platform to
share, vote, and discuss feedback.
Share images the easy way with Marqueed. To allow a team to
collaborate in the best way it may become necessary to share images.
Marqueed does this with a simple drag n’ drop move. There are many other
features, all interesting and essential in this kind of applications.
However, there is also the possibility to work with external tools, as
Google and, maybe, in the next months, Dropbox.
Keep track of revisions, upload images and videos, archive old
projects with Cage. Cage is a very well known application for designers.
It’s a collaborative tool that lets designers share their work. You can
upload images or videos, create to-do lists, manage and assign tasks,
and organize revisions. An interesting tool of Cage allows you to have
contextual discussions on a frame or video directly in the timeline.
Clients could approve work within the application. And when the project
is over, you can archive it.
Draftboard is the collaboration tool made by designers for
designers. This is another good application, with a simple interface,
that allows easy upload of multiple file types. It makes the process of
approving mockups between client and creative people very easy. The app
lets people add comments and notes directly to the drafts, share the
drafts, and create to-do lists. Draftboard offers a free plan and a free
trial on paid plans.
Useful infographics for everybody. It’s likely that you’ll need
infographics at some point in time, maybe for a presentations.
Piktochart can be useful to design a professional, but quick,
infographic. It has a powerful, very good editor and more than 50 design
themes. It offers a free trial.
A lot of tools in a professional app. ConceptShare is very good for
sharing files and communicating. It’s a fast tool to collaborate on
creative work online. Designers in different places could work together
by uploading documents, commenting on them, and receiving feedback.
ConceptShare is one of the oldest collaborative apps for creative
professionals. Its interface is easy and elegant, while the app contains
dozens of features. A free trial is available.
Conceptboard is a simple white board at your service. Conceptboard
looks a bit like Scribblar, but it is a bigger, more professional
application. It offers the typical collaboration tools, as the
possibility to draw freehand, to upload a document, image or other file,
to edit them, to share ideas and files and to collaborate. Another good
point of Conceptboard is the user-friendly interface.
Canvasdropr is the application that make navigating easy. Images,
photos, MS Office documents get uploaded fast with Canvasdrop. The name
of the app tells how it works: you “drop” on the “canvas”, as it were a
blank sheet of paper ready to be filled. The interface is very simple
and friendly to navigate. As in Marqueed, you can use external tools, as
Google Drive, Instagram, Flickr, etc.
Cozimo is an elegant and friendly app for team work. Do you want to
add notes to videos? Cozimo is the perfect application. Obviously, it is
also possible to add notes to images and organize virtual interactive
meetings in which team review projects. Another feature of this elegant
and friendly app is the chance to specify the role of each member of the
team and make files accessible accordingly.
