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Compare and contrast different design artefacts (sketch, wireframe, mockup, and prototype) in terms of their fidelity, speed, cost and use cases.

Spritz : First, your eyes do not have to move from word to word or around the page that you’re reading. In fact, there’s no longer a page – with Spritz you only need 13 total characters to show all of your content. Fast streaming of text is easier and more comfortable for the reader, especially when reading areas become smaller. (via This Insane New App Will Allow You To Read Novels In Under 90 Minutes | Elite Daily )

Favicon Generator – Generate favicon pictures and HTML Generate the favicon pictures and HTML code that work on all major browsers and platforms.

Convert Photoshop Drop Shadows to CSS3 Box and Text Shadows This tool creates CSS3 Box Shadows based off of Photoshop Drop Shadow settings. After stumbling upon the Recreating Photoshop Drop Shadows in CSS3 and Compass article by Grady Kuhnline, I wanted to build a tool that would allow the rest of us not using Compass to have the same ability to convert for CSS3.

Starter’s Guide to iOS Design In this guide I’ll describe the deliverables you’ll be expected to produce, outline the constraints of the medium and introduce fundamental iOS and UI design concepts .

The ultimate analytics platform. Send your data to any service with the flick of a switch. (via Segment.io – The ultimate analytics platform ) “It is basically the adapter pattern for analytics services.” (thoughtbot’s playbook )

Spirit for Twitter Set your Tweets to disappear with a simple hashtag. “pic.twitter.com/69wl #30m " “In town all day today. #8h " “Code SPRT1 valid for next #7d " Snapchat-style messages for Twitter 🙂

Open Source: Building on the Shoulders of Giants CocoaPods.org – The Dependency Manager for Objective C Alcatraz : Xcode Package Manager Tooling: Teaching a Computer to Fish nomad :: world-class command line utilities for iOS development xctool — replacement for Apple’s xcodebuild (via Third Wave Objective-C // Speaker Deck ) ( Source: http://cocoapods.org/ )

Origami is a free toolkit for Quartz Composer—created by the Facebook Design team—that makes interactive design prototyping easy and doesn’t require programming. (via Origami – Design prototyping with Quartz Composer )

The instinct to produce great work doesn’t require a fancy notebook. Seth Godin (via Seth’s Blog: A productivity gap )

ImageOptim optimizes images — so they take up less disk space and load faster — by finding best compression parameters and by removing unnecessary comments and color profiles. It handles PNG, JPEG and GIF animations. (via ImageOptim — better Save For Web )

Alcatraz : Xcode Package Manager Alcatraz is an open-source package manager for Xcode. It lets you discover and install plugins, templates and color schemes without the need for manually cloning or copying files. It installs itself as a part of Xcode and it feels like home.

Help Scout — Help Desk Software | Customer Support Software Scalable customer support, no help desk headaches Invisible to Customers Help Scout scales like any other help desk, but the customer experience is personalized like a normal email.

OpenDNS > Support > CacheCheck OpenDNS has huge caches, which is one reason OpenDNS makes your Internet experience faster. With CacheCheck, you can check what OpenDNS customers see when they request a domain. If there’s something amiss, you may refresh OpenDNS’s cache for that domain.

This tool was born from the daily toil of finding sample avatars for UI mockups (via User Inter Faces )

Intercom | Communicate personally with every single customer Activate and retain more customers. Intercom combines marketing automation, CRM, and support in one simple app, making it remarkably easy to communicate with your customers at every stage of the funnnel.

Size Calculator Nick Sherman demo’d Size Calculator , a web application created to bring screen design a capability that print design has enjoyed for 500 years. (via Web Type, Meet Size Calculator ∙ An A List Apart Blog Post )

WORDOID – Creative Naming Service Wordoids are made-up words. They look nice and feel great. They are good for naming things. And more…

CodeRunner — krillapps Edit and run code in any programming language with just a single click. With CodeRunner, it has never been easier to write and test code, run scripts, work with algorithms, or simply experiment with a new coding or scripting language.

75 Essential Tools for iOS Developers – Fickle Bits I present to you a gigantic list of tools. Some of these I use daily, others I see potential in. (…) I tried to categorize these the best I can. Some of the entries are websites, some are back-end services, but most are apps that you install. Not all of the apps are free, so I’ll make a note with a $ to denote that an app costs money....