Today, we’re excited to announce that Flawless App has joined Abstract, a design delivery platform that brings visibility, accountability, measurability, and predictability to design.
Flawless App was our first company, and we’re proud of everything that we’ve achieved with our 5-person team.
Since 2015, we’ve launched powerful tools for designers and developers — among them are Flawless App, Reduce, Flawless Feedback. We’ve also invested a lot of love and care into community-driven initiatives. Awesome Design Tools is one of them.
So what’s next?
Our team has joined Abstract and is focused on building out the Abstract SDK, bringing developers’ experience forward. One unbelievable journey has finished and the new one has just begun. And if you want to know more about the future of Awesome Design Tools, please keep reading our FAQ.
How to Use and Contribute
- Now you are in the Awesome Design Tools section, if you need plugins — go to Awesome Design Plugins.
- To find the tool, go through the Table of Contents or search for a keyword (for example, "animation", "prototyping").
- Ask Lisa on Twitter.
If you found some great design tool or plugin, just send a Pull Request with respect to our Contribution Guidelines (they're very simple, please take a look). Design tools should be submitted here and plugins in Awesome Design Plugins file. We use such labels for free 
, open source 
and Mac only 
tools, don't forget to add them. Now I'd love to see your suggestions!
Accessibility is the practice of creating websites and apps usable for all people, including individuals with visual, motor, auditory, speech, or cognitive disabilities. Here you will find web accessibility tools, accessibility testing tools, and accessibility apps both for developers and designers:
- A11ygator — a web tool to analyze websites against WCAG rules. Also available as Google Chrome browser extension and as Twitter bot.
- Accessibility Insights — helps developers quickly find and fix accessibility issues.
- Accessible Palette Builder — an Elm-based prototype to help designers build accessible color palettes.
- AChecker — accessibility testing web app used to evaluate HTML content for accessibility problems.
- ANDI — accessibility testing tool for web content (bookmarklet). It will automatically detect accessibility issues, give suggestions to improve online accessibility and check 508 compliance.
- Axe — accessibility engine designed to work on all modern browsers and with whatever tools, frameworks, libraries, and environments you use today. It's an automated accessibility testing tool for developers.
- ColorBox — a web app that algorithmically builds accessible color systems. Done by the Lyft Design team.
- Colorable — a free web-based contrast tool.
- Color Oracle — a free color blindness simulator.
- Contrast — a macOS app for designers and developers to get quick access to WCAG color contrast ratios.
- Contrast Checker — helps check the contrast between the background of an element and the page itself.
- Contraste — an app for checking the accessibility of text against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
- Inclusive Design — a methodology and a set of tools provided by the Microsoft team.
- Hex Naw — helps you to test entire color systems for contrast and accessibility.
- Leonardo - generate color palettes by desired WCAG contrast ratio. Open source web tool & npm module for designers and engineers. Made by Adobe.
- PA11Y — accessibility testing tool to find issues with your web pages. It runs HTML CodeSniffer from the command line for programmatic accessibility reporting. It's an accessibility developer tool.
- Sim Daltonism — a color blindness simulator for macOS and iOS that lets you visualize colors as they are perceived with various types of color blindness.
- Stark — a paid Sketch plugin that will let you simulate different types of color blindness.
- Toptal’s Color Filter — lets you test your website and shows you how people with different color blindness will see your pages.
- tota11y — an accessibility visualization toolkit. Interesting fact: inside the tool name you can see "a11y". It's an abbreviation of accessibility as "a" followed by 11 more letters, followed by "y".
- WAVE — allows you to evaluate web content for accessibility issues directly within Chrome and Firefox. It's a web accessibility checker.
- 90 Examples — a free collection of accessible color themes.
Animations guide people through the product friendly and smoothly. Live interactive UI makes users feel delighted with instant feedback and emotional touch. These free and paid tools are designed to make animation creation easier. If you plan to make animated transitions, micro-interactions or scroll-based animations, go through these tools:
- After Effects — digital visual effects, motion graphics, and compositing application developed by Adobe.
- BeatFlyer — a web tool that lets you create very quickly loopy and catchy animations from your multi-layer compositions.
- Dokyu Motion — simplifies motion design in After Effects so any editor can tell stories that won′t be ignored.
- Flare — a powerful design and animation tool, which allows designers and developers to create animations for their app or game.
- Flow — a professional animation tool for Sketch designs that also exports production-ready code for iOS, Web or SVG files.
- GSAP — a suite of tools for scripted, high-performance HTML5 animations in all major browsers.
- Haiku Animator — keyframe-based animation connecting your UI tools to code that developers can easily use.
- Keyshape — 2D animation tool that allows for animated SVG export.
- Kite Compositor — a powerful animation and prototyping application for Mac & iOS.
- LightBox — 2D, Hand-Drawn animation package.
- Lottie — a mobile library for Android and iOS that parses Adobe After Effects animations exported as JSON with Bodymovin and renders them natively on mobile and the web.
- Mantra — a web-based timeline animation tool.
- Meteoritic — animation delights library for iOS and Android. Choose from a variety of animations that suits different app styles.
- Naker.Back — integrate an interactive background for free to draw more attention to your website.
- Naker.Story — make your web content interactive to engage your visitors like never before thanks to 3D.
- OFFEO — an online video maker for small businesses to create video ads like the Big Brands without the big budget.
- StorySwag — create stylish animated posts for Instagram and Facebook in just a few taps, all from your mobile phone.
- Spirit — the animation tool that helps you to create and manage the animations real-time in the browser.
- Stylie — a web-based graphical CSS3 animation tool.
- Tumult Hype — the HTML5 animation/interactives creation app for macOS.
Drama, Principle, Framer, Invision Studio, Flinto are also among UI & UX animation apps and software animation tools.
Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality is a technology that upgrades our real world, by adding a layer of digital information to it. The use of AR increases day by day with dozens of new AR apps, development kits, and AR frameworks. So in this section is collected different augmented reality tools for creating, projecting and prototyping apps focused on AR:
- Daqri — delivers professional-grade augmented reality for the workforce by overlaying digital information onto the physical environment.
- EasyAR — a mobile application and an Augmented Reality Engine, making AR easier.
- HP Reveal — adding value to printed content through visual interactivity.
- Layar — find various items based upon augmented reality technology.
- Lens Studio — create, publish, and share your own AR experiences for Snapchat with or without code.
- Lightform — a design tool for projected AR.
- Spark AR Studio — сreate AR experiences for Instagram without code.
- Torch — a cloud-based 3D design and prototyping app focused on mobile AR.
- Unity — build high-quality 3D and 2D games, deploy them across mobile, desktop and VR/AR.
- Vectary — сreate 3D and AR for your website.
- Vuforia — SDK for mobile devices that enables the creation of augmented reality applications.
- Wikitude — empowers your iOS, Android & Smart Glasses apps with Image & Object Tracking, Instant tracking (SLAM), Geo AR, and more.
Looking to try some tools for agile design and development collaboration? Good idea because such to
A curated list of design tools and plugins covering nearly every category a designer might need, from accessibility testing and animation to prototyping, wireframing, and 3D modeling.