Discover 6 excellent tools to visually convey your design ideas

If you're trying to get a big design idea across, a good mood board can be invaluable.
So what's the best way to put a digital mood board together? There are a ton of tools to make things easy for you. We've gathered together the best of the bunch.

01. Moodboard
A handy app for the iPad that will help you with putting together mood boards is Moodboard. You can add photos from your Photo Library or the web, send your moodboards to Twitter and Facebook, or share via email. You can also share editable boards using iTunes File Sharing, and there's support for Retina.

02. Olioboard
The tool's main purpose is to design a room in 2D or 3D and try it before you buy. But you can also use its preview of colour schemes and furniture choices to create an impressive mood board that you can save and share with friends and clients alike.

03. Gimme Bar
The developers of app Gimme Bar describe it as 'The fifth greatest invention of all time'. Gimme Bar allows you to create collections of bookmarks, including the facility to take entire screenshots, which is perfect if you want to show your team or clients examples of similar styles or colours. This is a great app for keeping everything that inspires you in one place.

04. Pinterest
Pinterest offers diverse collection of images to draw mood board references from. The benefit tha it has is that a whole load of human users have done a lot of the curating for you, which is the time-consuming bit.

05. Evernote
Julie Gomoll created this mood board using notetaking app Evernote
Ever considered using the Evernote notetaking app to create mood boards? Us neither, but it can be done.

06. Sampleboard
Upload your images to this digital mood board creation tool and organise them into project files, then use the web editor to easily pull together design trends and colour schemes. The mood boards you create can be shared on various social media sites and easily imported into documents and presentations. A range of mood board themes are available to get you started.