75 of the Smartest Resources for Web Designers
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75 of the Smartest Resources for Web Designers
A lot of these lists just cram everything and anything into the lineup. So, we decided to pick our designers’ brains to bring you the best resources that we are using on a daily basis.
Feel free to add other useful resources in the comments below :)
Images + Video
Images + Video1. Showbox - Create studio-quality video from your browser.2. Coverr - Beautiful free videos for your homepage.3. Compressify - One of the best tools to optimize video files
online.4. Pexels - The best free stock photos (and video), all in one
place.5. Unsplash - A database of beautiful, high-res, free (do
whatever you want) photos for creative use. No awkward office stock photos.
Images + Video5. Death to Stock - A photo and inspiration haven for
creatives crushing their path.6. Photype - A great way to view and test photos,
dimensions and effect with overlay text, before you actually download anything.
7. JPEGmini - Your photos, on a diet. Reduce image size by up to 80%, without compromising quality.
Icons
Icons9. Iconfinder - A small team working to create one of the
largest, searchable databases of icons in the world.10. Noun Project - Building a visual language of icons anyone
can understand, this is a massive searchable database of glyph icons created by a community of designers.
11. Flaticon - Another hefty collection of free icons available in SVG, PSD, PNG, EPS and BASE 64 formats.
12. Iconmoon - An icon library for the more pixel-conscious among us and an icon fonts generator.
Icons13. Material Icons - As you’ve probably guessed, this is
Google’s beautifully crafted selection of icons.14. Icon Store - Fun free icons by first-class designers and
platform for you to submit your icon work as well.15. Illustrio - A massive searchable database of all sorts of
icons that you can customize to fit any brand.
Type
Type16. Right Font - A lightweight font manager for your Mac. It
helps you preview, sync, and organize fonts stored in any location.
17. Font Reach - Scanning the top million sites to show font usage across the web, it’s like the zoo for designers.
18. Google Fonts - A showcase of individual type designers and foundries as well as hub to download font families to use in design files.
19. WhatFont - Literally, the easiest way to identify and inspect fonts, right from your browser.
Type20. Font Flame - New and relatively simple, this highly
addictive font-pairing site is like Tinder, for fonts.21. Typekit - Premium fonts galore, by Adobe.22. Typeface - A new kind of font manager for Mac. It helps
you pick the perfect font by focusing on quick and accurate font previews.
23. Font Squirrel - Hand-selecting typefaces presented in an easy-to-use format, free!
Colors
Color24. Color Hunt - Pinterest for colors. You can scroll through
four color combinations, infinitely.25. Hello Color - A handy, super simple, one-click color
contrast generator.26. LOL Colors - Curated color palette inspiration by
Mackenzie Child.27. Coolers - A super fast color schemes generator that
allows you to create, save and share perfect palettes in seconds!
Color28. Adobe Kuler - A compass for the color wheel, use it to
explore combinations of analogous, monochromatic and all sorts of different color combinations.
29. ColorZilla - An advanced in-browser eyedropper, color picker and analyzer extension for Chrome and Firefox.
30. Design Seeds - A daily dose of inspiration for all who like color.
31. UI Gradients - A handpicked collection of beautiful color gradients.
Inspiration
Inspiration32. Muz.li - Designers’ secret source for all the inspiration you
need, at your fingertips, each time you open a new tab in Google Chrome.
33. Landingfolio - A curated gallery featuring the best in landing page design.
34. Awwwards - Website Awards that recognize and promote the talent and effort of the best developers, designers and web agencies in the world.
35. UpLabs - The best of design & development inspiration, resources and freebies. Every day!
Inspiration36. Pricing Pages - We love this site (and Product, Store and
Checkout Pages too). It’s a directory of the best pricing pages around and an inspiration goldmine.
37. User Onboarding - Incredibly detailed (and useful) walkthrough slideshows that show the on-boarding flow of well-known web and mobile apps.
38. Mindsparkle Mag - One of our favorite places to roam the most beautiful and inspiring projects in the fields of graphic & web design.
39. Eye on Design (AIGA) - An exploration of the best new work from emerging and established designers from around the world.
Inspiration40. It’s Nice That - An alternative online publication that
believes creative inspiration is for everyone, showcasing the most exciting/engaging work online and in print.
41. The Great Discontent - Candid interviews with those who create and an off-the-beaten-path source for ideas.
42. Typewolf - A daily bit of typography-in-the-wild inspiration.
Mockups & Prototyping
Mockups & Prototyping43. InvisionApp - A web-based prototyping, collaboration &
workflow platform that allows designers to create highly interactive mockups for web and mobile projects.
44. Sketch - Professional digital design for Mac.45. Napkin - Design quick mocks, directly on your phone.46. Placeit - Generate product screenshots in realistic
environments.47. Frontify - Create free style guides in less than 5 minutes.48. Pixel Budda - A collection of free mockups and resources.49. Graphic Burger - A buffet of premium quality design
resources offered for free, to the design community.
Website Builders
Website BuildersFor Designers
50. Webydo - An online responsive website builder for web design freelancers and digital agencies — with built-in CMS and hosting — to create websites faster and grow their business.
51. Adobe Muse - An offline website builder that allows you to create fixed, fluid, and adaptive websites without having to write any code.
Website BuildersFor Code-Savvy Designers
52. Wordpress - Web software you can use to create a beautiful website, blog, or app.
53. Dreamweaver - A tool for designers and front-end developers that let’s you create, code and manage websites that look amazing on any size screen.
Website BuildersFor Amateurs
54. Squarespace - Whether you need a powerful landing page, striking galleries, a professional blog, or an online store, it’s all included, mobile-ready from the start.
55. Wix - Uniting beauty and technology, this cloud-based DIY solution enables anyone to create HTML5 websites with it’s drag n’ drop studio.
Collaboration & Productivity
Collaboration & Productivity56. Lingo - Build and share libraries of visual assets with your
entire team — all from your desktop. It’s like Dropbox for design teams.
57. Mural - Your personal online whiteboard for brainstorming, synthesis and collaboration.
58. Wake - A private space to share and discuss design work with your team.
59. Slack - Collecting all of your communications in one place, it’s real-time messaging, archiving and search for modern teams.
Collaboration & Productivity60. Trello - Helping you keep track of everything, from the big
picture to the minute details of each design project.61. GoVisually - The simplest way to go from idea to design
approval with rapid client feedback on your projects.
Communities
Communities62. WebdesignerNews - Curated stories and discussion on
design, development, creativity, tools and inspiration.63. DesignerNews - A place to discuss and share interesting
things happening in the web industry and beyond.64. DesignerList - A global directory of designers by the kings
of inspiration, Muzli.65. Slack Communities - The most comprehensive list of
every design / web design community that you’d ever want to join on Slack.
Communities66. Dribbble - The place for designer show and tell of
mini-projects and WIP.67. Behance - A showcase and discovery platform for the
latest work from top online portfolios by creative professionals across industries.
Learning & Education
Learning & Education68. NuSchool - Learn to run your freelance design business
like a boss.69. HackingUI - Hacking UI is a community for designers,
developers and creative entrepreneurs with a passion to learn and engage.
70. Phlearn - One of the best tutorial sites for all things Photoshop.
71. Just Creative - Articles on branding, logo design, photography, web design social media and more.
Learning & Education72. Tuts+ (Webdesign) - Learn how to design for the web
with thousands of free web design and development tutorials from expert instructors.
73. How Design University - The Designer’s Source for Continuing Education.
74. Design for a Perfect Screen [eBook] - A beautiful, in-depth eBook that will perfect the way you design for screens.
75. A Web Designer’s Guide to SEO - A comprehensive guide and infographic detailing the universe of on-page and site-wide SEO for web designers.
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