So, after using my iPhone relatively successfully for the past couple years, it made sense to pull together a few suggestions for some great apps for creative professionals.

1. myPantone. is an incredibly useful tool. Snap a picture and select a color and it will give you the closest PMS match as well as other complementary colors for a palette. I love this app and actually use it a lot.

2. OmniFocus. A great way to organize and sort your To Do list. I like the way it keeps things sorted and sync’s with my Mac.

3. Gorilacam. The guys who make the Joby GorillaPod came out with this great little app to turbo-charge the built-in camera of the iPhone. It has a level built into the display, it provides zoom, anti-shake and a host of other great little features for taking those quick pix on the fly.

4. SketchBook Mobile from AutoDesk. A true sketching tool for the iPhone that lets you sketch with your fingers with some semblance of accuracy. OK, am I going to drop Illustrator for this? Uh, no. But it has a very nice interface and does a beautiful job in a “pinch”.

5. PS Mobile. What designer collection of apps would be complete without Photoshop Mobile? It’s a pretty useful little app that offers some nice features for color correction and cropping on your photos.

6. A Conversion tool. Sure, there are tons of them and I probably have 3 or 4 – they all work, so then it’s down to interface and I really like Convertbot based on a really nice interface.

7. Color Expert. Another nice tool for identifying colors, either using a color wheel or a photo. One of the first color matching tools and still a good one.

8. Air Sharing. A great little app that turns your iPhone into a wireless USB stick of sorts. It simply allows you to share files wirelessly from your iPhone to another computer. Besides, who always has a USB stick on them? But I do have my iPhone with me constantly.

9. AppBox Pro. You buy App Box and it covers the majority of baseline utilities from a flashlight to unit and currency conversion to a whole lot more. It’s basically your grab bag of apps but I do find it incredibly useful.

10. WhatTheFont. Okay, not totally wild about this one, but it’s the only app out there for fonts that has some value – take a pic and have it help identify what font it is. I’d wait for a couple iterations of accuracy, but it is a useful concept.

11. Twitter. Sure, it’s not a design tool, but following some of the world’s top designers, product releases, and sites like NotCot, makes Twitter an amazing tool for designers. You’re getting data faster than any other source available. Quickest way to stay up to date on trends and news.

12. WGSN News. WGSN is a great service for following trends and “creative intelligence”. This app collects all of the news from the fashion and retail industry. It’s amazingly useful and very interesting what you learn on a day-to-day basis.

So there ya go. From one designer to another, those are some things that I find useful in my daily job. Now your turn, share what you’ve got (and why).

Lucky

Tags: iPhone

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