TOP 12 TOOLS

For Your Creative Design Process

 COLLABORATION TOOLS

97% of corporate executives, employees & educators

believe that a lack of alignment within a team directly
impacts the outcome of a task or project.

Communication, documentation, and collaboration are

crucial in all kinds of projects. These tools will help you
kickstart and streamline your Design Innovation process
for the entire team..
 NOTION

A great one-stop workplace where

you can write, plan, collaborate and
organize your team. Sign up HERE!

APPLICATIONS

STREAMLINE
By assigning roles & responsibilities
WORKFLOWS to your team, everyone will have a
clear understanding on their
respectives and when tasks are
due.

Its newly added web clipper has WEB CLIPPER

also made our marketing
research much easier by creating
a repository of articles to refer to
just when we need it.

RESEARCH
COMPILER Compiling research has never been
easier by creating a repository of
new ideas, gameplay testing,
making improvements & gathering
feedback.
 AIRTABLE

One of Silicon Valley’s hottest tools,

Airtable provides a great way for teams
to organize their databases anywhere,
anytime. Sign up HERE!

APPLICATIONS

STARTER
Its wide variety of bases available
BASES can be used for marketing
campaigns, product & user
experience, growth experiments,
business models, etc.
PAGE
The pro plan feature allows you turn
DESIGNER
any information in colourful ways.
Create your own business cards,
BLOCK
invoices & many more by printing
them out directly or turning them
into PDFs.

APP
INTEGRATIONS
Airtable supports a wide arrange of
applications like Zapier, Mailchimp,
Slack and many more enabling you
to automate your entire workflow.
 REALTIME BOARD

This platform is best summed up as

your very own digitised physical
whiteboard. Sign up HERE!
APPLICATIONS

VARIETY OF
SOLUTIONS The platform has a wide variety of
templates to implement and
choose from. This covers project
management, innovation,
ideation, UX design & research.

Draw up your very own Business BUSINESS MODEL

Model Canvas to get a better CANVAS
understanding of the problem you
are trying to solve, the solution you
are providing, identify revenue
streams, etc.

REALTIME Being able to collaborate in real

COLLABORATION time is vital when working on tasks -
this ensures that everyone is up to
date and aware of changes being
made and are on par with the rest
of the team.
 SLACK

Eliminate the need for emails through

organized and dedicated instant
messaging. Sign up HERE!
APPLICATIONS

DEDICATED
CHANNELS Organize your conversations
based on different channel or
project topics. Members can be
updated on progress and
updates easily.

Readily connect the apps that you INTEGRATIONS &

use to slack to get real-time data APIS
on actionable items.

REALTIME Being able to collaborate in real

COLLABORATION time is vital when working on tasks -
this ensures that everyone is up to
date and aware of changes being
made and are on par with the rest
of the team.
 VISUAL DESIGN TOOLS

“A picture is worth a 1000 words”

In the current state of our society’s’ hyper consumption of
online content, visuals, graphics, and videos play a huge
part in getting your audience’s attention and sustaining
the interaction with them.

Even if you are not a designer by training, the following

tools allow you to effortlessly generate high quality
content that speaks volumes of your brand and work to
build loyalty and confidence.
 STRIKINGLY

A great platform for designers to create

digital products and bring their ideas to
life. Sign up HERE!

APPLICATIONS

DRAG & DROP

TEMPLATES The availability of templates to
choose from & it’s drag and drop
feature is great for creating a
website from its design stage to
the actual layout.

A/B TESTING
Carrying out A/B tests are vital when it
comes to optimizing your conversion
rate. Strikingly provides great tools to
support building landing pages as well
as running tests.

STORE FRONT Build your very own store front by

adding products to your website.
You can even set up global shipping
rates & set up push notifications to
your customers.
 CANVA

Canva empowers beginners, experts &

even teams to design anything, anywhere,
anytime. Start designing HERE!

APPLICATIONS

DESIGN
Canva provides support in helping
TYPES you create almost any type of design.
This ranges from blogs, e-books,
posters & resumes all the way to
logos, planners & many more!

Don’t know where to being? Fret not, DESIGN

Canva’s library of informative SCHOOL
tutorials covers a wide arrange of
topics such as marketing, branding &
photography. Online courses are also
available.

Professionalise your photos by using

PHOTO EDITING Canva’s photo editor - add grids,
& PRINTING frames, straighten and add make
wireframes with its online tool. It also
offers printing services for your
stunning & delivers it straight to your
doorstep.
 FLATICON + FREEPIK

WE GOT ALL THESE ICONS FROM FLATICON!

THEY HONESTLY HAVE THE BEST FREE
REPOSITORY. START USING THEM HERE!

APPLICATIONS

ICON PACKS
Get creative and consistent looking
icons that comes in different styles
that are categorized according to
different themes.

Access thousands of icons directly EXTENSION

from Google Docs and Google slides
using the add-ons function. Just
search and click on the icons you
want, no more copy and pasting!

Freepik and Flaticon allows you to

EDITABLE change assets’ colors to match your
brand colors. Download the vector
files to make further modification you
require.
Bonus tip: Create pattern
background using Flaticon’s pattern
creator.
 PROTOTYPING TOOLS

“Maximize the rate of learning by minimizing the time

taken to try new ideas.” - Tom Chi

Save time by using these versatile and user-friendly tools

to build medium fidelity prototypes to test with your users.
There is a range of software and hardware tools for
different type of projects that your team wish to pursue.
 MARVEL

A great platform for designers to create

digital products and bring their ideas to
life. Sign up HERE!

APPLICATIONS

PROTOTYPES
Marvel not only supports low
fidelity prototypes but high
ones as well.

WIREFRAMES &
Being able to develop storyboards & STORYBOARDS
wireframes on one platform gives
you a great overview on the how the
interface of your digital product is
going to look like.

REINVENT YOUR
DESIGN WORK User journeys & site hierarchies can
be difficult to explain but this
platform depicts how your wireframe
flows with its realistic interactions,
giving your testers a clear overview.
 THUNKABLE

Create your very own apps from start to

finish in the most effective & user-friendly
manner. Start building HERE!

APPLICATIONS

BLOCKS INSTEAD
OF CODE Its usage of blocks instead of
code enables users with no
prior knowledge to kick start
their journey in the app inventor
world using a simple interface.

Each and every application CROSS PLATFORM

created on this platform is
accessible on both Android & iOS
devices, making it universally
applicable to users of both
operating softwares.

COMMUNITY Thunkable’s active and engaged

OF BUILDERS community is extremely reliable if
you do run into any issues. Feel
free to post your questions with
steadfast responses.
 MICRO:BIT

This device may be small but boy, you will

be amazed and the things you can create &
code out with this. Start coding HERE!
APPLICATIONS

VERSATILE CODE
EDITOR Its interface can be coded
using blocks or python
language, giving users the
flexibility to run their code.

This device can also be EXTERNAL

connected to other external CONNECTIONS
devices such as Raspberry Pi to
take selfies, build a crowd
display, etc.

SENSORS Light, temperature and motion

sensors have been built into the
Micro:bit, allowing you to control
light levels with Neopixels and
even create your very own gym
assistants with motion sensors.
 TINKERCAD

A user-friendly 3D design & modelling

and coding application for designers
to imaginee, make & design anything!
Start designing HERE!

APPLICATIONS

3D Tinkercad’s simple user interface

MODELLING enables anyone to create a simple 3D
model by placing, adjusting &
combining shapes together. It’s
interface also has a wide variety of
shapes, tools & angles to toggle with.

Add light & movement to your 3D CIRCUITS

models by designing your wires & its
components, programming blocks using
C++ & simulate to get an overview of
how things will work.

DESIGN
YOUR CODE Finally, design your 3D projects using
code blocks to stack, move & run the
code. You can create GIFs, export and
print your creation for future use.
 CREATIVITY FOR HUMANITY

CREATIVITY FOR HUMANITY

This game of creativity is perfect for parties,
icebreakers & even a great way to get your
juices flowing in your creative design
process. Sign up for beta testing HERE!

APPLICATIONS
CREATIVE
WARM UPS This platform provides a great way for
getting those creative juices flowing in
the classroom, office space or even at
home!

ENGAGEMENT
Creativity For Humanity not only
increases engagement levels amongst
students & co-workers but also
encourages them to think out of the
box and step out of their comfort zones.

COLLABORATION
Player interactions in activities fosters
teamwork and communication
amongst students & co-workers which
are necessary skills for the future.
 NOTE
❏ These suggested tools are part of
Codomo’s workflow and is mainly a
reference for teams who wish to
incorporate them into their design
process.
❏ The tools mentioned are used on a
day to day basis by our team to
create a streamlined workflow.
❏ If you do have any questions, we’d
be happy to help! You could reach
us at hello@[Link]
❏ Aside from that, if you have any
stories, feedback, comments, or
suggestions on improvements, we’d
love to hear from you!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME!

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