Top Design Collaboration Tools for Freelancers and Agencies Sponsored

Are you a member of a design or development team? Then, you most likely have a need to communicate and collaborate with others. Even when your project is a solo effort you may feel a need to have an extra set of eyes. You will need someone to watch out for mistakes and guide you along.

Consider a project that is being worked on behalf of a design agency. Here, team members need to be able to communicate among themselves. They also have to collaborate with their management.

Take a look at this roundup of top design/development collaboration tools. It should make sharing ideas and providing useful feedback a breeze. You might work on a team that stretches across organizations. Or, your work might involve collaboration one-on-one with a designer or developer. Either way, this list is for you.

1. Mason

When design work involves several tools, the development work is done on a separate platform, and product deployment requires the use of a different set of tools entirely. It’s little wonder that mistakes can be made, communications can break down, and other things can happen to disrupt the workflow and cause confusion and even fingerpointing.

Now imagine not only being able to design, build, and deploy a product from a single platform, but to make changes to that product from the frontend without having to wait for the next deployment cycle.

Perhaps it’s time to give Mason a good, close look. Mason is a front-end-as-service design, development, deployment, and maintenance platform from which you can do all those things you could only imagine before.

Now, you can design, publish, and maintain a product from Mason’s frontend in real time. The entire process is secure, and effortless collaboration is practically a given since you and others with a need to know have ready access to the necessary information to support a given task.

2. monday.com

Whether your team consists of you and one other, or it’s made up of thousands of workers spanning the globe, it will always work to your advantage to have a good team management tool in place to help you collaborate and share information.

monday.com is such a team management tool. It’s intuitive to use, centralizes everything, helps to smooth out otherwise chaotic workflows, and can be used by technical and non-technical teams alike. In fact, roughly 70% of the 22,000 teams using monday.com fall outside the tech sector.

Some work for small agencies or startups. Others work on projects for Fortune 500 companies. All of them are able to avoid time-consuming meetings and whiteboard discussions or having to plow through countless Excel spreadsheet files in search of important bits of information.

3. Fleep — Collaboration Software

Fleep is a flexible messaging system that can be integrated with email to improve team communication and collaboration. With Fleep, you can avoid the pitfalls often encountered when several applications have to be put into play to exchange information within teams or with outside teams or individuals. Fleep offers team collaboration, managing feedback and action items on a single platform.

Information required for later use is securely stored in the cloud where it is always accessible from any device. This information can range from team or customer feedback and to-do lists to meeting minutes and files. Fleep can be used on a Mac, PC and Linux, as well as Android and iPhone systems and devices.

Sign up for Fleep’s free Basic Plan or for the Business Plan’s free 30-day trial.

4. Visual Inspector

Struggling to collaborate design issues, website copy, client changes and the like? If so, Visual Inspector is what you need. This feedback collaboration tool can be used on HTML, Sketch App, WordPress, and other frameworks and tools to speed up your back-and-forth communications and decision-making processes and make website changes easier and faster.

Join VI’s 40,000+ users by subscribing to the monthly plan or select lifetime access to the Pro Plan for just $49.

Conclusion

Manually set up collaboration systems can be effective and efficient. They are also subject to interruptions and breakdowns for a variety of reasons. They can also be expensive when someone has to be paid to oversee them.

With the right tool or platform in place breakdowns simply don’t occur. You either use them on a subscription basis, for a flat fee, or at no cost at all. In any event, the tools presented here are reliable, efficient, and worth their weight in gold.

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