Signing up for Evernote on their web site is free, and there is also a premium account available. Evernote allows you to share your notebooks with others, a great opportunity when working on designs for international clients. Mood boards are a great way for designers to present their take on a theme to clients. Click on a thumbnail to see more information including your own notes and the link back to the source site. While you won’t actually see all of your saved selections as one collage in Evernote, what you do see are thumbnails of each item. It makes it easy to cross-reference and you might find something you had saved before is just what you’re looking for. It’s a good idea to add tags when you’re saving something. Then when you’re using the web, anything you find of interest you can quickly add to your project, whether it’s inspiring images or fonts that might work with your design. To create your own online mood boards, make a new notebook in Evernote and name it something appropriate for the project you’re working on. They are very popular with interior and fashion designers but I believe they are equally of use for web and graphic designers. Mood boards are basically collages of items such as photographs, sketches, clippings, fonts, fabric swatches and color samples. A mood board is a tool used by designers to give clients (and themselves) ideas for the look and feel of a design. If you haven’t made a mood board before, or if you never heard about a mood board, here’s a brief explanation. The selection you’ve made is saved to your account, along with any tags you want to attach to it, and the web page where it came from. When you have the plug-in installed on your browser, it is simply a matter of selecting what you want to remember, and then right clicking and choose “Add to Evernote,” or clicking on the Evernote icon which is visible at the top of your browser.
That’s why I love this app, because it keeps it all organised for me.Įach project that you work on is stored as a “notebook,” which you can name and add your content to. More recently, I’ve put together some mood boards for my design work, by grouping together my own notes, articles found online, images of interest, colour palettes, screen grabs and fonts I like.
I’ve only been using it for a short while and initially only for research and notes on my blog posts here on SitePoint and on my own website. Evernote’s slogan is “Remember Everything,” and if you’re like me and sometimes feel you forget everything, this is a very easy and helpful tool to use. Evernote is a web site, desktop and mobile app which allows you to gather your thoughts online through note-taking, capturing images from web pages and your camera, voice messages and handwritten notes.
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