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Boost your design productivity

Design Maestro is a free extension for Keyboard Maestro app. It lets you automate tasks that you repeat hundreds of times each day.

New Figma Project
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Color Picker
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Pick Brand Asset
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Pick Brand Color
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Optimize Selected Images
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Remove background from image
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Translate with Deepl
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Quick Notion note
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Search in Google
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Don’t repeat yourself

Each day, you waste time on repetitive tasks: navigating, typing, searching, copying. "But it takes just 10 seconds" you'd say. Just multiply this by hundreds of times and you have hours wasted during a month! But here's the good news: it doesn't have to look like this.

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Shortcut to a better productivity

Access all macros from the Design Maestro launcher with ⌘⇧D or press an assigned keyboard shortcut to execute a specific action immediately.

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Rich collection of handy macros

Design Maestro was built for designers by designers. We’ve analyzed our work and created macros that let you skip repetitive and tiresome tasks.

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Easy setup

We’ve created a simple onboarding experience where you can set up everything yourself. Additionally, we provide tutorials to guide you step by step!

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Lightweight, secure and fast

The Design Maestro extension weighs less than 1 MB and works really fast. It’s also completely secure because all your data is kept in your local storage.

Macros for busy designers

Macros are quick actions that you can run with Design Maestro launcher. To launch a macro you just need to choose it from the list or activate it with an assigned keyboard shortcut.

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Lorem Ipsum Generator
Quickly type a “Lorem Ipsum” sentence by typing ;lorem.
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Optimize Selected Images
Optimize selected images directly in Finder with tinyPNG API.
⌃⌘⌥⇧D
Remove Background from Images
Remove a background from selected images in Finder with removebg API.
⌃⌘⌥⇧Z
Color Picker
Copy a HEX value of a color of a pixel beneath a mouse cursor
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OCR Selected Area
Copy text from a selected area of a screen.
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Pick Brand Asset
Save an image URL that you can use later on. An image will be copied directly to your Clipboard.
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Pick Brand Color
Save a HEX value you can use later on. A color code will be copied directly to your Clipboard.
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Open Starter URLs
Save a set of URLs you can launch with “Open Starter URLs” action.
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Quick Notion Note
Quickly open a previously saved “draft” note in Notion.
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Add Quick Text Snippet
Add a quick text snippet which will be saved in a Design Maestro Snippets macro group. You can later use these snippets by typing a provided abbreviation.
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New Figma Project
Quickly start a new Figma project (in a browser).
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Open Webflow Dashboard
Quickly open a Webflow dashboard.
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Translate with Deepl
Translate a text with deepl.com/translator (by default it will translate your clipboard content).
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Search in Google
Search a phrase in Google (by default it search for a phrase from your clipboard).
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New Gmail Message
Quickly create a new Gmail message.

How does it work?

Macros are quick actions that you can run with Design Maestro launcher. To launch a macro you just need to choose it from the list or activate it with an assigned keyboard shortcut.

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Install Keyboard Maestro

Design Maestro is an extension for the Keyboard Maestro app. First, you need to install it on your Mac.

2

Install Design Maestro

Download the Design Maestro extension from our website and install it by double-clicking on the file.

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Start using the macros

Launch the Design Maestro with ⌘⇧D and choose the macro you want to activate.

Get Design Maestro

Get instant access to Design Maestro and our setup guide. Completely for free.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Design Maestro?

Design Maestro is a FREE package of macros that you can use in the Keyboard Maestro app for macOS. Wonder how Design Maestro automations can help you? Read this article.

I have an idea for automation! Where do I submit it?

If you have an idea for automation that we could implement in the next versions of Design Maestro let us know in this form. We’ll review it and if it will find it useful we will implement it!

How do I contact you?

You can reach out to us via email at hello@designmaestro.io.

I want to support this project. How can I do that?

Enjoying Design Maestro? We are super happy! Rate us 5⭐️ on Gumroad. Share a link to our website with your friends. Donate on Gumroad by entering your amount in the Name a fair price input.

What is Keyboard Maestro?

Keyboard Maestro is an automation software for macOS where you can automate virtually anything. Applications or websites, text or images, simple or complex, on command or scheduled. If you can perform it manually, Keyboard Maestro can almost certainly automate it for you. Whether it is typing your email address, going to Gmail or Twitter, launching Pages, or duplicating a line, Keyboard Maestro can help.

Can I use Keyboard Maestro for Windows or Linux?

No. Keyboard Maestro is only available for macOS.

Is Keyboard Maestro a free app?

Keyboard Maestro is a paid app but there is a long free trial. What is more, we also provide a special discount for Keyboard Maestro that you can use: With coupon: DESIGNMAESTRO you’ll get a 20% discount. By the way, we don't get any cut from your purchase. We just managed to get a friendly discount from Keyboard Maestro founder.