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Matvej Korba
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The tools we actually use every day and why we chose them
People ask about our tools constantly, so here's the honest list. We design in Figma, build in Framer, manage projects in Linear, communicate in Slack, and store everything in Dropbox. For photography post-production it's Capture One for selects and grading, Photoshop for retouching, and Lightroom for batch work.
Tools don't make the work better. But the wrong tools will absolutely make the work slower.
Design and development
Figma handles everything from brand systems to presentation decks. We moved our website builds to Framer two years ago and haven't looked back — the speed of iteration compared to a traditional dev workflow is incomparable for the type of sites we build. For anything that needs custom code, we keep it scoped and clean rather than reaching for heavy frameworks.
Project management and communication
Linear replaced Notion for us because it's faster and more opinionated. We don't need a tool that can be anything — we need one that manages tasks well. Slack is Slack. We've accepted it. The one rule we enforce is that project decisions live in Linear comments, not buried in Slack threads where they'll be lost in a week.
The tools we cut
What matters more than any individual tool is that the stack talks to each other. We spent a full quarter last year cutting tools that duplicated function or created friction between steps. We went from fourteen subscriptions to nine. Miro was replaced by FigJam. Trello was replaced by Linear. Two separate cloud storage services were consolidated into one. The work didn't suffer. If anything, less context-switching made the output sharper. Pick tools that disappear when you're using them — that's the whole criteria.
