Adobe Creative Cloud for Teams
£59 per month/user
A staple for most design agencies. Photoshop, Illustrator and XD get used daily. InDesign as a special treat.
adobe.com/uk/creativecloud/business/teams
Google G Suite
£6.60 per month/user
For emails, shared docs and folders.
DropBox
£12 per month/user
Was once our shared storage of choice – but we're now transitioning everything to Google Drive.
TeamWork
$11.25 per month/user
For project management. We've tried lots (Asana, Wonderlist, Things, DaPulse/Monday, Notion). This is the best one so far.
Harvest
$12 per month/user
For time-tracking.
1Password
$4.99 per month/user
A password manager that lets us securely share website login details with the team. No more copy and pasting passwords into emails.
InVision
$22 per month
InVision is a prototyping tool. During our Discovery Stage – before we start the design or development – we'll upload wireframes for the website to InVision.
Invision lets us add 'hot spots' on the wireframes, which when clicked, link through to other individual wireframes. It allows the client to click through the wireframes as if it were a real website.
DeployHQ
£24 month
For pushing code changes to the server.
Forge
$19 month
For setting up and managing servers.
DigitalOcean
$5 – $infinity per month
When we host clients sites, 9/10 times they'll be here.
BrowserStack
$39.00 per month
Lets us test websites on different browsers and devices – to make sure the design and functionally works.
Nothing beat testing on real devices – but BrowserStack is the next best thing.
Imgix
$3 per 1000 images
Imgix takes the stress of image processing, optimation and delivery off our servers. Helps keep our sites super fast.
ActiveCampaign
$49 per month
For email campaigns and email automation. We're also using ActiveCampaign as a CRM / Deals tracker too – but that's likely to change soon. (AirTable FTW?).
GoCardless
1% per transaction
For recurring payments for hosting, maintenance and domain names.
Boomerang
$14.99/Month
Is a plugin for Gmail which does a couple of things:
- Allows you to pause your inbox so that you can check information in emails without being distracted by new shiny emails. Though, I think a native version of this is coming to Gmail soon.
- Give you a notification if someone hasn't responded to your email within a set period of time. Great for following up with clients and leads.