Agency Tools We Use
We use a wide range of software services at our agency. Below is our "stack" of our tools.
Office Productivity
- G Suite, for email, calendar, Docs, Sheets, and Drive
- Microsoft Office 365, for Word and Excel
- Slack for team and project-based chat
- 1Password, for team password management
- Dropbox, for cloud-based file storing and sharing
- Evernote, for note-taking
- Zoom, for video conferencing
- OnSIP, for cloud/VOIP phone system
Project Management
- SmartSheet, for creating project schedules and managing resources
- Basecamp 2, for project-based communications with clients
- Harvest, for time-tracking
Design
- Figma, for most of our designs
- Adobe Creative Cloud, mainly for Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, and AfterEffects
Development/QA
- JIRA, for issue tracking
- BrowserShots/BrowserStack, for cross-browser compatibility testing
- GitLab/GitHub/Bitbucket, for code repo and version control
- GitLabCI/CircleCI, for continuous integration
- Docker, for local development environments
- DockerHub, for docker images
- Screaming Frog, for SEOLitmus, for email client compatibility testing
- WebPageTest/GTMetrix/PageSpeed Insights, for performance testing
- LoadImpact/Blazemeter, for load (concurrent users and bandwidth) testing
- Vim/Sublime/TextMate, for integrated development environment (text editors)
- SequelPro, for database administration
- SourceTree, for version control with git
- Postman, for prototyping and experimenting with APIs
- Transmit, for file transfer for SFTP, FTP, WebDav, S3
Marketing
- Glew.io, for e-commerce analytics
Finance/HR