Best Project Management Tools For Designers

Best Project Management Tools For Product Designers, Graphic Designers and UI UX Designers

You know the drill as a product manager. Managing the designer and programming teams at the same time while reporting to the boss via email is a pain. But don’t despair; there is yet hope! Everyone can work together flawlessly with the correct software, and you can save a lot of time on execution. We compiled a list of all the necessary platforms for a product manager to improve their team’s productivity.

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Here are the 5 Best Project Management Tools

Asana

Asana has become one of the best-known collaboration tools on this planet. The platform makes it possible to create dashboards, tasks, projects, discussions, and much more.

Pros:

• Easy navigation and use
• Intuitive interface
• Mobile app version available

Cons:

• Cannot sync Asana dates with Outlook calendar
• Lack of project templates
• No push notifications in the browser

Price: Starts at $9.99 / user / month

Trello

Another sweetheart in our team because it’s almost dummy-proof. Trello organizes projects into cards and boards to visualize a project’s current stage.

Pros:

• Perfect for seeing through processes and projects
• Easy to learn
• Growing list of integrations

Cons:

• User interface tricky at first
• Underdeveloped design

Price: Free, though the business class package for $9.99 / user / month. It offers more integrations and a higher level of security.

Marker

Marker

makes it easy to report visual bugs and collect website feedback without driving developers crazy. Simply annotate feedback on your site and Marker.io will create actionable issues into your favorite project management tools like Jira, Asana, Trello, Github, and more. 

Pros: 

• Deep integrations with the most popular project management tools
• Easy visual annotations tools
• Environment data like OS, browser, and URL automatically captured

Cons

• Works as browser extension only 
• No video capture

Price: starts at $49/mo for 10 reporters

Basecamp

Basecamp has emerged as the other hotshot of project management and collaboration tools. You can create to-do’s with deadlines, milestones, upload files, and organize discussions within the software.

Pros:

• Super easy to use
• Project templates available
• Integration with Zapier

Cons:

• Cannot sync Basecamp dates with Outlook and Google calendar
• Chat needs improvement
• Tricky to give user permissions

Price: Basic plan starts at $29 / month

Xtensio

Xtensio is the perfect platform for individuals and teams to collaborate in creating excellent presentations, reports, slides, or any online documents. It’s an impressive tool to create, share, and manage simultaneously living “folios” with its easy-to-navigate features.

Pros:

• Collaboration in real-time
• Easy-to-navigate features
• Customization to meet branding needs

Cons:

• Privacy controls available only for premium account.

Price: Starts at $0/month for individual accounts and up to $500/month for agencies.