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Awesome resources to help you get to the next level and powerful Framer tip!

Are you really pushing your barriers?

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Asaad Mahmood
September 28, 2023

Hello designers and freelancers 🥷

Let’s dive in today into tools that can really help you step up your game, especially when you have tons of client projects, or when you’re looking to build an insane portfolio!

Things we’ll be covering:

  • ⚡️ Connect Framer to Google Sheets

  • 🦻 Be more efficient in your conversations with clients

  • 😱 Design with inspiration!

  • ✋ New Canva Killer? Microsoft Copilot

  • 🛑 Stop using ChatGPT (Use Bard)

⚡️ Connect Framer to Google Sheets

🦻 Be more efficient in your conversations with clients

A lot of the time we’re just worrying about taking notes, and making sure we don’t miss things, but when with a client, understanding is key! So let AI do the work for you, check out Fireflies AI

Fireflies.ai | AI notetaker to transcribe, summarize, analyze meetings

Fireflies uses generative AI to bring ChatGPT to meetings. Generate transcripts and smart summaries for Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex and several other platforms.

fireflies.ai

😱 Design with inspiration!

Don’t just design things by thinking you know everything, take inspiration from these key sources!

Awwwards - Website Awards - Best Web Design Trends

Awwwards are the Website Awards that recognize and promote the talent and effort of the best developers, designers and web agencies in the world.

www.awwwards.com

CallToInspiration – Small details for very exacting ideas!

Call for inspiration using the purple hat for when you have inspiration blocks or need fresh new ideas. A great tool created by a deisnger for web professionals.

calltoinspiration.com

Mobbin - The world’s largest mobile & web app design reference library

Save hours of UI & UX research with our library of 100,000+ fully searchable mobile & web app screenshots.

mobbin.com

✋ New Canva Killer? Microsoft Copilot

The copilot may just be actually kill Canva and a ton of other presentation generation tools! Don’t miss it out.

🛑 Stop using ChatGPT (Use Bard)

Bard is more powerful than ever, even more powerful than ChatGPT.

You can feed it images, it can answer you based on your data, and it can do things for you that the free ChatGPT plan just can’t do!

Most importantly, Bard is real world, while ChatGPT is stuck in September 2021!!!

Start using it for your design and day to day work!