Visual design tools

Now that you clearly understand the visual design elements and the design principles, you need to combine all these elements and principles together to come up with a great solution for your visual design.

Beside the concepts that we've covered so far, to create great visual designs of any kind, whether you are creating graphic assets or user interfaces, you will need to use design tools and software to produce the final design.

Before I move to the list of tools that you can use for creating visual design, let's discuss what we could to do to get inspired. For creating good-looking and usable visual design, we need to stay inspired and be creative. If it was so easy just to use tools and start doing the designs, then everyone would do it, right?

I highly suggest that if you want to focus on a visual design career path, you need to stay inspired daily, and the best way to do so is by looking at what other designers and design agencies are doing.

Two main platforms, or as...