My Top Seven Chrome Extensions For Designers
Hey, beautiful designers hope you’re having a great week. This post, I would like to share My Top 7 Chrome Extensions that I use. These cool Chrome extensions have helped me improve my productivity to simplify my workflow.
Some of these extensions I’ve been using for a while a few are new additions.
#1 Muzli
Muzli is one place for all your inspiration needs, It lives within your new tab and you start to see a feed from various sources like Behance, Dribbble, Design milk, Sidebar and many more and you can even customise the feed if you want. I use Muzli daily for 30 minutes before and after work to stay updated and inspired. I love their “Weekly Design Inspiration” and “UI Interaction of the Week” series. Highly recommended you Use Muzli.
#2 CSS Peeper
CSS Peeper extension has made my life so much easier. Earlier I used four different extensions for figuring out the fonts, colours, spacing and grid for the website that I like. But CSS Peeper has everything in one place. And apart from all this, you can also download assets available on that website. Copy all the various colours used on the website.
#3 Page Analytics
Page Analytics is a Chrome Extension that shows you the google analytics data of the website it’s connected to. This is an extension that I discovered accidentally and I’m so glad that it came across. You can see details like Bounce rate, Pageviews, Avg. time spent and % of clicks on each element of the page. Before the only way to find this data was to go to Google Analytics and find each information individually. By using this extension you can see all that data while you are on the page. It cuts a lot of to and fro that I used to do earlier.
#4 UX Check
UX Check is a Chrome Extension that helps you document usability issues through heuristic evaluation using Neilson’s 10 Heuristics. It’s very simple to use and also provide you with a well-documented report as an output. Eg. I’m here on Invision.com and I can’t see social login here. So, I’ll click here, select a principle, add notes and recommendations, select severity and save it. I can review the progress done and also export all of it in a document file.
#5 Grammarly
Grammarly is a spelling and grammar check tool on steroids. Apart from detecting grammar, spelling, punctuation mistakes, it also detects word choice, style mistakes. It also provides a plagiarism check for the writing and suggestions to improve. It embeds itself very well into the browser and gives suggestions everywhere there is text. I use it while producing UX Writing for the project since English is not my first language. I have been using Grammarly for almost two years now. Highly recommend.
#6 Simplify
Simplify is a very recent extension that I found form Product Breakfast Club Podcast. What this does is it simplifies your Gmail experience by hiding the unnecessary elements, making email less stressful and more simple, calm. This extension is made by Michael Leggett who was Gmail’s Lead Designer and Co-Founder of Google Inbox. I loved inbox and it’s sad google had to shut it down.
#7 LastPass
LastPass is a password manager that stores your passwords and also recommends secure passwords when signing up for a new account. Most people use the same password everywhere which is not secure at all. LastPass autofill your username and password and makes login to all your accounts just a click away.
So, designers, these are My Top 7 Chrome Extensions that I use and recommend to everyone.
If you have any extension recommendation do mention it in the comments below. It’ll be helpful to all of us.
Thank you for reading…
Hello, My name is Manav Madaan. I’m a User Experience Designer, here on Medium to improve my storytelling skills, share my experiences as a designer and contribute to the design community by sharing what I know and what I have learned.
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