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The 20 best tools for online collaboration
• Trello
This project management tool is like a magical customisable to-do list on a single interface,
which you can share with others in real-time. Based on a system of ‘cards’, (which are
essentially post-it notes), you can categorise and order text, photos, drawings and mock-ups
whichever way you want. There’s also a nice progress meter so you can keep an eye on
your project’s pipeline, as well as the ability to set appointment reminders. Most brilliantly
of all, it’s free.
• Yammer
A social network for business, Yammer provides a platform for you to communicate and
collaborate privately with your colleagues. Employees sign in with a company email address
and can use the platform via web, desktop or mobile to chat openly or privately, and share
documents; you can even like somebody’s status if you so wish! With over 7 million users,
it’s the most widely used enterprise network tool and, now owned by Microsoft, can be
integrated with SharePoint.
• Flatsi.es
Forget the frustrations of sending work to clients via email; this free tool for designers
enables you to host your project on one dashboard and share via a simple URL. Projects are
password protected so only you and the client have access to them. Other features include
retina-ready so that all of your images look pristine, and a mobile app means that you can use
the tool wherever, whenever. The free version allows you to manage four projects at a time,
while the paid-for pro account is unlimited.
• Red Pen
More fun than a teacher’s marking pen, this feedback tool is particularly great if you’re a
freelancer and looking for some constructive criticism on a project. Specifically created for
designers, Red Pen lets you drag and drop your designs into a dashboard and invite specific
colleagues (or even clients) to let you know their thoughts in real-time as you roll out your
latest updates to a project. One of its best features is that it keeps track of the numerous
versions made so you can always reclaim that earlier design if you changed you mind. Pricing
starts at $20/month for 5 projects.
• Invision
Again, another tool created specifically for designers, Invision is a web-based and mobile app
that turns your designs into fully active prototypes with gestures, transitions and animations.
Clients can provide feedback in the form of comments on your designs , and you can keep
them up to date with the project’s progress in real time through actionable to-do lists. Getting
started on your first project is free, but any more will cost you from $15/month.
• Mural.ly
Mural.ly is a creative tool for you to drag-n-drop rich media files, links, and documents
onto a big HTML5 drawing board, which is a great way to collect inspiration and gather
thoughts. It also supports collaboration that allows designers to brainstorm cool ideas
remotely. Plus, it is optimized for iPad and made gesture-friendly.
• GoVisually
Free tool GoVisually allows you to mark annotations and place comments on any part of
your project - so designers and clients can collaborate to revise projects online without
sending painful e-mails, which should ultimately increase productivity.
• MindMeister
Mindmeister is a powerful mind-mapping tool, but also has the functionality of many
collaboration tools. Designers can use this to craft ideas and concepts. It's maybe a bit
quirky to organise a design idea through mind mapping, but this is still a great collaboration
tool to try out.
• ConceptBoard
ConceptBoard is an instant whiteboard tool for teams and projects. Creative designers can reap
benefits by using this tool to collaborate as well. Inded, it's optimised for creatives and is more like
a one-stop solution for crafting concepts, managing projects, and providing feedback at any time.
• GroupZap
Think of this app as any whiteboard in a boardroom! GroupZapis a tool for you and your team to
collaborate on ideas in real-time. It utilises a sticker system that is easy for anyone to use - you
drop and move buttons and badges just like magnets on a whiteboard. It's definitely worth a try for
brainstorming ideas.

• Scribblar
Scribblar is more like a chat room - it even has audio available - and as such it is very useful
indeed. Creative brainstorming and artwork revision can be collaborated in the 'room' you create.
It's an effective online collaboration tool and is available for free.
• BinFire
BinFire is an all-round project management tool. It's described as being designed for team project
follow-ups and collaboration, but the whiteboard and markup function make it useful for designers too.
If you are looking for a collaboration tools that have powerful project management feature, this is the
one to try.

• Basecamp
The daddy of project management, Basecamp was created when 37Signals couldn't find a project
management app that wasn't insanely complicated, and so decided to build its own. It worked so well
that clients wanted to use it, too, and things grew from there.
• Proofhub
Another web-based project management and collaboration tool,Proofhub promises that it'll enable you
to plan, organise and deliver projects of all sizes faster. It packs all the tools you'd expect, including
Gantt charts to help schedule and track multiple tasks, and a proofing tool that aims to ease the whole
process of approving and reviewing designs. Want to give it a try? You can sign up for a free 30-day
trial right now
• Concept inbox
Describing itself as the simple way for designers, teams and clients to collaborate,
Concept inbox provides you with a straightforward dashboard where you can
upload images, get fast feedback from clients and add revisions with full version
control. It also enables you to create interactive prototypes; just the thing if you
have a brilliant idea for an app and want to communicate how it would work.
• Cage
Cage is one of those collaboration tools that is specifically built for designers. The
original Cage allowed you share images of designs and get contextual feedback on
them, but in the latest iteration of the app collaboration is more comprehensive.
• Draftboard
If Cage is for gathering feedback on image-based works, Draftboard is designed
for managing and collaborating on mock-ups - specifically Photoshop .psd files.
• Canvasdropr
Canvasdropr is a file sharing and annotating tool that supports many filetypes, even
including MS Office documents. The interface is very simple and easy to navigate.
• Marqueed
No fancy features or price plans here - Marqueed is a free, simple tool to upload
images and discuss them. You can add multiple images to the board plus labels and
descriptions, and it allows you to easily make revisions. You can also grab any image
on the web and drag it to Marqueed, which is a very practical feature.

• Stixy
• Stixy is an online note tool for personal projects, co-workers, families and anyone
who wants to gather resources, add to-dos and make comments and notes on those
files.
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