Tyson Evans from The New York Times and Dave Wright from National Public Radio kicked off a session at the 2010 Society of News Design Convention by extolling Agile beliefs and then launching into a great list of tools for building and prototyping internet-based tools:
- Draft: An iPad sketch tool for prototyping and wireframing from 37 Signals [OS X only]
- Google Docs > Drawing: You can use these as an Omni Graffle competitor
- Coda Notes: Panic Software’s plugin lets you draw on live web pages, edit live text and send the page as an image to others [OS X only]
- Basecamp: From Chicago’s 37 Signals for project management — assign tasks, add milestones and share documents
- Campfire: A live chat for sharing files, messaging, etc…
- Versions: Helps compare files, keeps revisions and tracks changes [OS X only]
- Dropbox: Free tool for online storage — it includes version control
- Transmit User friendly FTP client, also from Panic Software [OS X only]
- Terminal The window into OS X’s unix core
- MAMP: Makes it easy to run a local web server [OS X only]
- TextMate: Flexible and powerful text editing tool [OS X only]
- Zen Coding: A plugin for Text Mate that helps, quickly and cleanly, write HTML
- Coda: Interface development enviroment built by panic it allows for group editing, preview, code snippets and has built in reference materials
- ChartBeat: Live analytics for realtime user tracking
- InstaPaper: A tool for saving links on the go — the links can be read later on your PC, mobile device or tablet
- Readability: Bookmarklet that clears all the extras off the web pages you read
- Little Snapper: Save screenshots, annote and share them
- Patternry & Pattern Tap: A catalog of user interface design elements
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