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UX Planet — Medium | Thanasis Rigopoulos
So recently I switched from Safari to Chrome and I found out that extensions in Chrome are growing at a much faster rate than in Safari were extensions are gradually dying.
As you may imagine with great enthusiasm I started looking for the best plug-ins that may come handy to a designer like myself.
Well after some hours of searching and testing if the plug-ins are doing what they claim to do, I think I have found the ones I was looking for.
So why not share them?
This extension re-sizes the browser's window in order to emulate various resolutions. It is particularly useful for web designers and developers by helping them test their layouts on different browser resolutions.
The resolutions list is completely customizable (add/delete/re-order).
Daltonization is a technique of exposing details to color-blind users, allowing them see what they otherwise would have missed.
Color vision deficiency (CVD), commonly referred to as color blindness, affects around 5% of the population (8% of males, and 0.5% of women) or one out of every twenty computer users.
CSS-Shack is a web and desktop application, which allows you to create layers styles (just like you would in any other image editing software), and export them into a single CSS file.
Fontface Ninja is a plugin you can install in your browser to recognize, try and buy any fonts on the Internet!
Draw a ruler to get pixel dimensions and positioning, and measure elements on any web page.
With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program. Sketch...maybe
CSS Peeper is a CSS viewer tailored for Designers. Get access to the useful styles with our Chrome extension. Our mission is to let Designers focus on design, and spend as little time as possible digging in a code.
And some for everybody.
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