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ThingLink

Pump up your graphics and images! Make them more interactive or informative with ThingLink. It’s ideal for 360° tours, images, virtual showrooms, maps, infographics, training documents, presentations, videos, VR experiences, the list goes on! ThingLink adds layers to your content that helps users dive deeper into any given topic by adding hot spots throughout it. Published ThingLinks can be embedded into your website, shared to social media, and even downloaded for offline viewing. Most importantly, it’s trackable interaction! Each asset, each hotspot, and each channel you share it on can be tracked for insights. Try it out for free!

SimilarSites

We’re on an extension kick. SimilarSites is an extension that instantly finds websites from all over that are similar in content and functionality to the one you’re currently browsing. Use this nifty tool to find similar shopping experiences, news outlets, or researching competitors and peers. Give it a shot to discover new sites and get inspired!

Nimbus Screenshot Extension

There are a lot of screenshot tricks and tools out there. If you’re in search of one with multiple capabilities, try Nimbus! This Chrome extension can:

Screen capture entire web pages, a selected scroll, a selected section, or the entire browser window
Record screencasts
Use the editor to change background color, format text, crop, and annotate
Easy sharing or saving to your desktop or Google Drive

Give it a shot for your screenshots!

Pantone Connect

Everyone knows who has the golden standard of colors: Pantone. Never go searching for a swatch or color code again! Pantone Connect is your Adobe-integrated tool that includes access to 15,000+ Pantone Colors, Search, Pick, and Measure Tools with Pantone Reference Numbers. You can save and share up to 10 palettes. It’s a free tool with some premium options to check out.

Font Finder

An oldie but a goodie! Ever looked at something and you needed the font it used? All the time, right? You can go the old-fashioned route by doing a little right-click inspection of elements and dig through the CSS styles. OR you can just click a Chrome extension. WhatFont is the free, easy tool to be a font detective. It hovers over an element and identifies the font used, but it also detects the services used for serving the web fonts and supports Typekit and Google Font API.

Proto.io

We love us some mock-ups! A prototyping tool helps a designer to weave visuals, navigations, and interactions altogether. They’re an essential tool in any UI/UX designer’s belt. Proto.io is a web-based tool that comes with a bucketload of add-ons and features. Easy importing of Sketch and Photoshop files, VR prototyping, UI Libraries, and a whole lotta testing tools. They also have templates to get you started!

Helperbird

Helperbird is a Chrome extension that is super helpful for accessibility or anyone wanting to use a fast screen reader. It can help writers (and readers) with dyslexia, blindness, or other disabilities work more efficiently. You can change the font of the page, change the font sizes, use a magnifier, natural voices, dyslexia support, dictation, overlays, Immersive reader, word prediction, and turn text into speech. Just want a simple site view? You can also turn pages into a plain-text “Reader Mode” for easier reading.

Macro

Express yourself! Macro is a snazzy enhancement to the everyday Zoom call. Join any Zoom meeting and personalize the look, feel, and interaction of your calls. Macro customizes the meeting interface to break free of the grid gallery. You can have shapes, filters, and reactions, plus they add more constantly from artist collaborations and new themes. Our fav? The profile bubbles change size based on how much you speak on a call. Check out this free, macOS tool for yourself or your whole team!

Open Peeps

Need custom illustrations without the custom price tag? Open Peeps is a hand-drawn, FREE illustration library. It has mix-and-match combinations of everything you could need: Facial expressions, clothing, poses, backgrounds, and objects. These aren’t your typical blob illustrations, they’re charming and expressive with options that are always expanding with more prosthetics, poses, and body types. And did we mention it was free?? The library is under CC0. What are you waiting for, peeps?