# Design

[Chabudai Gaeshi](http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2012/04/28/chabudai_gaeshi/) #article - " 'I learned countless things at Apple, but the most important skill I acquired was the ability to simply take a set of extremely polished designs—sometimes designs I’d easily consider to be the best I’d made in my life—and throw them away, trash them entirely, and start over. It’s where truly great design is born. Since my time at Apple I’ve done this many, many times, and it has always resulted in incredible progress. You have to learn to kill your babies, mercilessly. They’re just pixels. You can do better.' "

[Checklist: 10 Must-Have Criteria for Your Logo](https://gistbrands.net/10-must-have-logo-criteria/) #article - "What makes a logo not just creative, but strong, successful, and lasting? How do you know when your logo isn’t working the way it should? What makes one concept potentially better than another? How do you narrow down your top choices in a logo redesign to a front-runner when different people are responding to different esthetics?"

[Flare](https://www.2dimensions.com/about-flare) - "Bring Your Apps and Games to Life with Real-Time Animation. Flare is a powerful design and animation tool, which allows designers and developers to easily add high-quality animation to their apps and games."

[Font Flipper](https://fontflipper.com/upload) #webapp - Tender-like interface for choosing fonts.

[Hero Patterns](https://www.heropatterns.com/) #webapp - "A collection of repeatable SVG background patterns for you to use on your web projects."

[Krita](https://krita.org/en/) #software - "Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone."

[Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology](http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2013/09/05/lateral_thinking_with_withered_technology/) #article - "The basic idea is to use existing, cheap, well-established technology, and use it in new ways, thus allowing Nintendo to introduce new, innovative concepts at affordable prices."

[Logo Design Love](https://www.logodesignlove.com/) #blog - "On logos and visual identity design"

[ManyPixels](https://manypixels.co/) - "ManyPixels is the first on-demand design outsourcing service that works on a subscription model. Pay a fixed monthly price and get your design within 1-2 business days."

[Photopea](https://www.photopea.com/) #webapp - "Photopea: advanced image editor. Free online editor supporting PSD, XCF, Sketch, XD and CDR formats. (Adobe Photoshop, GIMP, Sketch App, Adobe XD, CorelDRAW)."

[PixelSnap](https://getpixelsnap.com/) #software - "The fastest tool for measuring anything on your screen"

[Teenage Engineering](https://teenage.engineering/)

[xScope](https://xscopeapp.com/) #software - "Measure. Inspect. Test."


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