You are designing a website for a client. You’re in Cape Town, and they are in Zurich. You are creative and have photoshop at your disposal. They can’t draw a straight line in mspaint. You mail the design over to them, and they don’t like it, or they “um.. kind of like it, but its not quite there”, or “er.. it needs something extra”, or “ah, um… can we just move some things round”. A lengthy period of time follows with you altering and resending designs back and forth, until eventually both you and the client get so sick of the process, that you both settle for something that you don’t quite like. Imagine now, that you can both have access to the design, and scribble and draw on it to your hearts content, well thanks to twiddla, now you can!

To use twiddla, you will need to register, but you can test the service without having to submit any information at all, either in the sandbox, or by setting up an open session without logging in (this can’t be saved though). Once you have set-up a session, you can easily browse to images on your PC and upload them. Once the image is uploaded, you can add icons and text to the image, or best of all, grab a pen, and draw all over it.

If you can get your client online with you, then there’s an inbuilt instant messaging system so you can chat about the changes while highlighting them at the same time. As an added bonus, the usual shortcut keys for undo, and redo are enabled, all of which should save a ton of time when dealing with design work. Alternatively, you can load up a picture of a friend, and invite your other friends in to draw comedy moustaches and glasses on them. The choice is yours!