[ TOOLS ]
Designers now have to build their own tools. Software is made by corporations around the use cases that pay, so the niche ones get workarounds. That barrier is gone: if the tool you need doesn’t exist, you can make it. These are the ones I made, from single-purpose web tools to a full motion graphics compositor.
Desktop App
Aurora
A motion graphics and visual effects compositor, open source and written in pure Rust.
Figma Plugin
Transferre
A live bridge between Figma and Photoshop. Shoot a layer across, edit it, save, and the Figma layer updates in place.
Figma Plugin
PINNA
Pulls a public Pinterest board onto a FigJam canvas at full resolution, with GIFs animated and videos playing in place.
Figma Plugin
Tessera
Cuts any selected node into interlocking jigsaw pieces you can drag around.
Figma Plugin
Obscura
Image adjustments and a Photoshop-style masking tab, running on the GPU inside Figma.
Figma Plugin
Arya
Paint a transparency mask on an image layer and get a masked duplicate, with the original left intact.
Figma Plugin
Nota
Annotate a design right on the canvas.
Figma Plugin
Cultro
A toolkit of small layout utilities: arrange, distribute gaps, replace colour, shear, guides and more.
Web Tool
Batch Resize
Resize a whole folder of images in one pass.
Web Tool
Batch Convert
Convert many images between formats at once.
Web Tool
Image Crop
Batch crop images one by one, with fixed ratios or free.
Web Tool
BG Remove
Remove image backgrounds in the browser.
Web Tool
Mesh Gradient
Build mesh gradients and export them.
Web Tool
Palette Gen
Generate colour palettes.
Web Tool
Icon Finder
Search icons and recolour them before you grab them.
Web Tool
Roadmap
Style and export maps as SVG or PDF, with presets from Blueprint to Neon.
Web Tool
Client Assets
Brand guidelines, colours, fonts and assets for every client in one place, exportable to PDF.
Web Tool
PDF Extract
Extract every page of a PDF as a high resolution image.
Web Tool
PDF Compress
Shrink a PDF.
Web Tool
PDF Spread
Re-export a PDF as two-page spreads for proofing booklets and magazines.
Web Tool
Image Spread Builder
Turn exported page images into a two-page spread PDF, ready for proofing or print.
Web Tool
Board Viewer
Drop in a Slack board CSV and view it as a table, kanban, chart or calendar.
Web Tool
Vid Download
Fetch videos and GIFs from a post link, in the quality you pick.