Tools for Designing in the Browser

This post is intended to be a regularly updated list of tools, articles, and other goodies that help make designing in the browser both easier and more efficient. If you're currently a designer-developer hopefully you might learn something new of use, while if you're new to the game hopefully this will get you started off in the right direction. Tools that I currently use are marked with an (*), while others I have used in the past.

Have something you use that think should be here? Email me with a link at rob at atomidesign.com, and I'll be sure to check it out.

Last updated: June 12, 2014


Articles

Browser Inspectors

CSS Preprocessors

Version Control

Full Frontend Frameworks

Grid Systems

Templating Languages

  • Handlebars *
  • Mustache
  • HAML - Haml is mostly used in Ruby on Rails projects, but serves as a good example for an indentation-based language.

Development Tools

Static Site Generators

Organized Development Approaches