Yunwen Eric

Posted on Nov 24, 2020 • Edited on Sep 24

20 Top frontend free development online tools

#uiweekly #codenewbie #design #productivity

Introduction

Logos (Updates June 2022)

Logo Creator

Are you wondering about how to go about creating a brand for yourself?
Don't stress anymore. On this platform, you just need a name and a tagline that's.
You can also customise your brands using the design editor which is easy to use and does not require you to be an expert in UI/UX. You can export your assets in several formats as well!

Design

Figma

Figma is a vector graphics editor and prototyping tool. It is primarily web-based, with additional offline features enabled by desktop apps for macOS and Windows. This can really come in handy for design.

2.Removebg:

Remove backgrounds 100% automatically in 5 seconds with zero clicks. You upload an image, and it automatically removes the background for free.

3.Photoresizer in KB

Instantly resize and compress photos to an exact file size in KB. Works entirely in your browser – fast, private, and free. Perfect for government forms, exams, job applications, and online portals that require strict upload limits.

4.Free Logo

FreeLogoDesign is a free logo maker for entrepreneurs, small businesses, freelancers and organisations to create professional-looking logos in minutes. Get a free logo for your website, business cards or correspondence.

5.Inpaint

Inpaint reconstructs the selected image area from the pixels near the area boundary. Remove undesirable objects from your images, such as logos, watermarks, power lines, people, text or any other undesired artefacts.

6.Tiny Png, Compressjpeg

TinyPNG uses smart lossy compression techniques to reduce the file size of your PNG files.

Colors

1.Material color

This site aids you with diverse and a variety of colours for your designs

2.ColorZilla/eye dropper

ColorZilla and eye dropper are browser extensions that aid you in easily picking up the colour code from any site with very high precision. Imagine you need the colour code.

3.Colors.co

This site gives you the option to select several colours, generate several colours and instantly get their colour of a particular site, no need to explore the dev tools to inspect the colour. Just use this tool to get the colour.

4.CSS Gradient, UI Gradients

Automatically generate your CSS gradient with a suitable GUI.

5.CSS Generator

Automatically generate the best box shadows, borders and more for free and get CSS code.

6.Animista

These tools aid you in generating CSS animations and automatically get the CSS equivalent code.

7.Free CSS Preloaders

Illustrations

Undraw

Undraw gives you a ton of illustrations for your design. It has a search bar where you can query based on what you are designing. You can also select your custom colour and all illustrations will be redesigned based on the new colour within a second.

UI inspiration

Dribble Dribble gives you a variety of designs for development. You can search for your designs as well as find designs based on the type of device: Mobile or web.
Uplabs

Images:

Pixabay
This is a site where you can freely download images, illustrations, videos and vectors. These images are freely licensed for commercial use.
Pexels
Similar to Pixabay, this site offers pictures and images of various sizes and orientations for your site free of charge.
Unsplash
Unsplash is similar to other image providers, has a large variety of images and an advanced search bar. The search bar permits you to search wrt orientation, gender, number of people and more.

Diagrams

Draw.io This tool is very important for prototyping and designing. It can help you to draw your front-end design structure if you want to share ideas with your friends.