Read original article at SpeckyBoy: http://speckyboy.com/2014/01/08/20-elite-themeforest-authors-reveal-5-favourite-web-design-tools/ KRIESI Power Elite Author on ThemeForest Sold between $2 000 000 - $4 999 999 BEST PRODUCT Enfold - Responsive Multi-Purpose Theme Total Sales 16000+ Approx. Income $350 000+ QUESTION: If you could use only the up to five web design tools for the WordPress theme development, which tools would you choose? ANSWER: Since I prefer to code most of the stuff that is used in my themes myself I really would only need jquery and an Icon font of choice :) To spice things up maybe the aforementioned isotope and either layerslider or revolution slider plugin but I don’t think they are really necessary for a good template.