30 essential tools for web developers The right web design tools can streamline your workflow, helping you work smarter – rather than harder – and more efficiently. After all, you want to invest your energy in solving problems, delighting users and creating beautiful designs. You wouldn’t want to waste your time and energy on dull, repetitive and soul-sapping tasks. Let’s look at 30 essential tools for web developers that will help you become more productive in the coming year. Where some are brand spanking new while others have been around for a while. But all of them have the potential to save you time, energy and budget in your web design projects. Sketch Rory Berry, creative director at Superb, rightly feels that using Photoshop for web design is a mistake. He made the switch to Sketch in 2017 and highly recommends it. “Having been a user of Photoshop for over 10 years, it was hard to change and learn something new,” he says. “But literally after the first day of using ...