As designers, we’re always searching for new tips and tools to help speed-up and improve our workflow. As a modern designer, you are now powered by not only a powerful graphics editing software but also rapidly evolving tools in your browser. After a few testing of Chrome extensions, here are 10 best extensions and plugins for designers to improve productivity.
Window Resizer
This is a real life-saver when it comes to seeing how your site looks on different viewports. With Window Resizer, you can quickly resize the Chrome browser window to any pre-defined resolution.
Muzli2
This extension pulls from tons of design sources to give you what’s new and hip and cool. Muzli automatically turns into your homepage—you can easily turn this off in the settings tab on the extension’s page.
WhatFont
An extension that allows you to easily identify fonts on websites. Simply hover on fonts you want to inspect and get all the details.
Page Ruler
This tool lets you hover on-webpage elements and take their measurements in pixels values. A fantastic tool for web designers.
Spectrum
This is one extension that allows you to instantly test your web pages for different kinds of color vision deficiencies.
CSSViewer
A simple CSS viewer showing you Font & Text, Color & Background, and other CSS Properties.
Panda
A newsfeed dashboard for your daily news and inspiration. This extension delivers you the best content to be informed and stay inspired.
OneTab
This extension claims to save up to 95% memory and reduce tab clutter in Google Chrome, OneTab is perfect if you tend to keep a dozen tabs open at a time and have trouble sifting through them all to find the one you’re looking for.
Colorzilla
Advanced Eyedropper, Color Picker, Gradient Generator and other colorful goodies, allows you to pick colors from web pages, color picker, and your personal color history. It is a great tool for web developers.
BuiltWith
The BuiltWith Chrome Extension lets you find out what a website is built with by a simple click on the BuiltWith icon.
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