awesome-design

Design toolkit

Curated collection of design resources and tools for UI/UX professionals.

🌟 Curated design resources from all over the world.

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Awesome Design / Stock

Albumarium "The best place to find & share beautiful images."
The Stocks "The best royalty free stock photos are delivered now along with videos, audios, icons, fonts and colors."
Polayoutu is community of photographers based in China who contribute photos under the Creative Common Zero License. 🌟
Illusion
Baubauhaus feed your daily need of design, illustration, photography, fashion and of all else art-related
500px over 15 million photographers from 195 countries. 🌟
1x Shop wall art by 16000+ Curated Artists. 🌟
LIFE OF PIX Free high-resolution photos, no copyrights restrictions for personal and commercial use
Unsplash
Stokpic
Raumrot
Death to Stock
Gratisography "The world’s quirkiest collection of high-resolution free stock images."
picjumbo Download free stock photos, backgrounds and images in high‑resolution for personal and commercial use
Magdeleine Hand-picked free photos for your inspiration
Pexels "The best free stock photos & videos shared by talented creators."
imcreator
Startup Stock Photos Free photos for startups, bloggers, publishers, websites, designers, developers, creators, & everyone else
New Old Stock Photos Vintage photos from the public archives, free of known copyright restrictions. recapturing history
Realistics Shots Free stock photos (high resolution) for personal and commercial use. 7 new photos every week
SplitShire Free stock photos for commercial use
FancyCrave Free travel photos for commercial use
LIBRESHOT Free fine art and ordinary photography. Free images for blogs or websites even for commercial use. No need to mention the author
BARNIMAGES Free high-resolution images for everyone
MMT Free photos and videos for commercial use
JAY MANTRI free pics. do anything(CC0). make magic
FoodiesFeed is a resource of awesome naturally looking food photos that are completely free to download
Little Visuals
Bucketlistly Blog A free creative commons (Attribution-NonCommercial) collection of over 8000+ travel photos from all over the world anyone can use
Pinterest is a social media web and mobile application company that operates a software system designed to discover information on the World Wide Web. 🌟
pixabay Over 1 million+ high quality stock images and videos shared by our talented community
depositphotos Over 100 million high-quality royalty-free stock images and high-definition footage at the best prices to fill all your creative needs
Stocksy is home to a highly curated collection of royalty-free stock photography and video footage that is beautiful, distinctive, and highly usable
butdoesitfloat
AllTheFreeStock
UI Faces UI Faces aggregates thousands of avatars which you can carefully filter to create your perfect personas or just generate random avatars

Awesome Design / Color

Coolors The super fast color schemes generator!
Colordot
Brand Colors The biggest collection of official brand color codes around
Material Design Palette
Flat UI Color Picker
LOL COLORS Curated color palette inspiration
The Day's Color is to find colorful inspiration from things that surround us. Daily
Color Claim
Color Hunt is a free and open platform for color inspiration with thousands of trendy hand-picked color palettes
CSS Colours Name
rgb.to
Color Code
Colorrrs
Nippon Colors
Colorize is a website that turns any word or phrase into a hex color
Hello Color
Color Lisa is a curated list of color palettes based on masterpieces of the worlds greatest artists
ColorDrop
colorfavs a place that made it easy to create and discover new colors and palettes for all of your projects
uiGradients
HTML Color Codes Get HTML color codes, Hex color codes, RGB and HSL values with our color picker, color chart and HTML color names
palettr is a web tool for designers
Paletton
Palettable Generate beautiful color palettes using the knowledge of millions of designers
Picular
Colorable “If one says ‘Red’ (the name of the color) and there are 50 people listening, it can be expected that there will be 50 reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different.” – Josef Albers
Google Colors The Material Design color system can be used to create a color theme that reflects your brand or style
WebGradients Free collection of 180 linear gradients that you can use as content backdrops in any part of your website
Chinese Colors is a collection of Chinese traditional colors
Gradienta Multicolor CSS Gradients, JPG Downloads, 100% Free!
Veranda Color Browse color palettes made by other designers, generate and submit your own
macOS Icon Gallery
icon54
icons8
Iconfinder provides high-quality icons to millions of creative professionals
icon dock
Genericons Neue generic looking icons, suitable for a blog or simple website
FlatIcons.net is a free flat icon maker
FLATICON
Evil Icons Simple and clean SVG icon pack with the code to support Rails, Sprockets, Node.js, Gulp, Grunt and CDN
Typeicons are free-to-use vector icons embedded in a webfont for easy use in any UI, whether it be on the web or in a native app
The Noun Project
Nucleoapp is a beautiful library of 27500 icons, and a powerful application to collect, customize and export all your icons
Picons Vector Icons for iOS, Android, Websites & Apps. Icons designed to perfection
Pictos is back once again with Redux: all new carefully crafted interface icons. Each icon in Redux has three variations: Line, Solid & Color
Smashicons is the largest and most distinct Icon Pack in the World. Smashicons offers the simplest, effortless way to use icons
Symbolset
logofaves
Logo of the day
LogoMoose is a logo inspiration and design community showcasing logos submitted by professional logo designers
Logospire is a logo inspiration gallery
Squid.ink
Game Icons
svgicons.sparkk.fr
Material Design Icons
Material Design Iconic Font is a full suite of material design icons (created and maintained by Google) with additional community-designed and brands icons for easy scalable vector graphics on websites or desktop
Bytesize is a tiny style-controlled SVG iconset
NOVA Material Design Icons 4,000 vector icons provided in two styles: Line and Solid
Free Icon Shop is a large collection of beautiful free icons in vector formats. All icons are commercially free to use. Download free icons in PNG, SVG, Ai or PSD formats
Simple Icons Free SVG icons for popular brands
iconmonstr Free, monstrously big and continuously growing source of simple icons run by one creator
Octions GitHub's icons
We Love Icon Fonts
IconStore Free icons by first-class designers
Google Material Icons Material icons are delightful, beautifully crafted symbols for common actions and items. 🌟
Font Awesome Get vector icons and social logos on your website with Font Awesome, the web's most popular icon set and toolkit. 🌟
IconMoon Pixel perfect icon solutions
ICONO pure css icons, with only one element
svg-icon is an ultimate SVG icons collection done right
Iconfont+ 阿里妈妈 MUX 倾力打造的矢量图标管理、交流平台。
CoreUI Icons Premium designed free icon set with marks in SVG, Webfont and raster formats

Awesome Design / Typography

typography
i love typography was born on August 7, 2007. It exists because I have a passion for typography, type design, and lettering, and for the pages, words, and letters born of those disciplines
Type is Beautiful 是一个关于文字设计和视觉文化的媒体计划。我们关注的话题包括字体、排版、平面设计、公共设计、技术和视觉文化。
Butterick's Practical Typography
Fonts store from Monotype offers more than 150,000 desktop and Web font products for you to preview, purchase and download. You can also learn about new typeface releases and discover typographic tips and techniques
Font Squirrel 100% free for commercial use
Typewolf what’s trending in type
Type Novel
Fonts In Use is a public archive of typography indexed by typeface, format, industry, and period
My Fonts
The Designers Foundry
Adobe Fonts Enjoy quick browsing, easy use in desktop applications or on the web, and endless typographic inspiration
Google Fonts
Google Font Combinations
justfont 是新世代字型設計暨推廣教育團隊,致力於培育台灣下一代的設計力量。
Font Library
Type Guide A Pocket Guide to Master Every Day’s Typographic Adventures
workmark
fontfling
Glyphr Studio
Lost Type is a collaborative digital type foundry
Brick
Village
Klim
Milieu Grotesque is an independent type foundry, offering an exclusive library of digital typefaces and related products
Lineto
Colophon is an international, award-winning type foundry based in London (UK) and Los Angeles (US)
T26
Typ.io at Typ.io, we're revealing designers' decisions for all to see; peeking under the hood of beautiful websites to find out what fonts they're using and how they're using them
TypeNetwork
The League of Moveable Type

Awesome Design / Toolkit

Sketch is a platform to empower designers to share and collaborate on their designs and work better, together. , , , , .🌟
Adobe Photoshop Best imaging and design app is at the core of almost every creative project. , . 🌟
Adobe Illustrator The industry-standard vector graphics app lets you create logos, icons, sketches, typography, and complex illustrations for print, web, interactive, video, and mobile. 🌟
Adobe After Effects Bold new ways to put your ideas in motion. v
Adobe Project Felix A new app for working with 3D models, materials, and lights with 2D background images to create fully rendered, high-quality images with photorealistic effects
Adobe XD Vector-based tool for designing and prototyping user experience for web and mobile apps. 🌟
Zeplin Build pixel perfect apps in peace
Panda A smart news reader built for productivity, powered by integrations
INBOARD Organize your inspiration
Sip The best way to collect, organize & share your colors
RightFont The future of font manager software for Mac OS X
Dropbox Get to all your files from anywhere, on any device, and share them with anyone. 🌟
Iconjar Organize, search and use icons the easy way
Affinity Designer Professional graphic design software for Mac
Inkscape Free vector graphics tool
Figma The first interface design tool with real-time collaboration. 🌟
Gravit End-to-end web-based design platform
Taskade Collaborate with clients on the same page visually with team tasks, notes and meeting agendas
Framer X Design tool for creating interactive designs, interfaces and animations

Awesome Design / Prototyping

Marvel Simple design, prototyping and collaboration
InVision The world's leading prototyping, collaboration & workflow platform
Origami Design Prototyping
Haiku Animation tool for UI components, ready for iOS, Android or Web Apps
Atomic The prototyping tool designed for teams
Proto.io Prototypes that feel real
Protopie Interactive prototypes with simple triggers, connects to phone features like vibration, proximity, and camera
Justinmind Prototype Faster, Communicate Better
Principle Animate Your Ideas, Design Better Apps
Flinto App prototyping tools for designers
Axure Design the right solution and align your team
Form Build and customize native prototypes directly on device
Bootstrap Studio A powerful desktop app for creating responsive websites using the Bootstrap framework
Adobe Experience Design Design, prototype and quickly share user experiences
UXPin High fidelity animated prototypes created in minutes
MockingBot Mobile prototyping tool without headache
POP Transform pen and paper ideas into a real working prototype
Prott Prototyping tool for Web, iOS, Android apps

Awesome Design / Mockup

Mockup World handpicks and presents the best photorealistic Photoshop mockups that designers and agencies worldwide have published online
Placeit marry design and technology to create high-quality branding and marketing tools so anyone from individuals to large companies can create amazing visual assets for their brand regardless of technical or artistic skills
Epicpxls Free & premium curated fonts, graphics, templates, mobile app designs & UI Kits
360 Mockups Totally FREE to download PSD Mockups to present your works
Facebook Devices Images and Sketch files of popular devices
Facebook HandsKit Photos of hands holding various phones, to be used in any presentation of your designs
UINames is a simple tool to generate fake names for use in designs and mockups
NinjaMock is a small startup based in Denmark, a country famous for its strong attitude towards design and quality
Smartmockups app The #1 tool for creating stunning marketing images
Froala Design Blocks Over 170 responsive design blocks ready to be used in your web or mobile apps. All blocks are based on the Bootstrap Library, and they are the building blocks for beautiful websites
ScreenSpace
Rotato 3D mockups
Lorem Ipsum
BrowserFrame is the easiest way to wrap screenshots in browser frames. Supports multiple browsers, operating systems, and themes. Great for landing pages and mockups
Device Shots is a tool that helps you create beautiful device mockups to share on social media platforms, with the screenshot of your website or mobile application, for free

Awesome Design / User Testing

Lookback.io Capture exactly how users experience your product: no guesswork required
UserTesting Get videos of real people speaking their thoughts as they use your website or mobile app. Go beyond analytics and understand why users do what they do
UserBrain Keep getting videos of real people testing your website, web app or prototype and make it ridiculously easy to use
Reflector Wireless mirroring and streaming receiver
User Zoom All-in-One Agile UX Research Platform
Ethn.io Remote user testing suite. Intercept real people for user research
Usabilla Customer feedback and survey tool
UserTest.io Remote, easy and simple user testing
Validately Easy way to recruit testers, launch tests, and analyze results
Users Think Get user feedback from real people, on demand, when you need it
CrazyEgg Heatmapping software
HotJar Includes screen recordings, heatmapping, form and funnel analysis and user feedback polls & surveys
Inspectlet Captures user actions and browsing, generates heatmaps, records with a realtime timeline
Clicktale is a user experience management platform
Maze Design is a great way to conduct user interviews

Awesome Design / Read and Digest

Design Milk is an online magazine dedicated to modern design, offers what’s new in art, architecture, interior design, furniture and decor, fashion and technology. 🌟
frog is a global Design, innovation and strategy firm
Danish Design Centre
Google Design is a cooperative effort led by a group of designers, writers, and developers at Google. 🌟
Google Art & Culture , explore collections and stories from around the world
Airbnb Design is a cross-disciplinary group of experience and production designers, researchers, technologists, writers and content strategists, graphic designers, filmmakers, producers, interior architects, project managers, photographers and more. 🌟
Fast.Co Design is the world’s leading business media brand, with an editorial focus on innovation in technology, leadership, world changing ideas, creativity, and design. 🌟
Smashing Magazine founded in September 2006 in Germany, Smashing Magazine delivers reliable, useful, but most importantly practical articles to web designers and developers. 🌟
Design Taxi
Yanko Design
Swiss Miss is a design blog/studio run by tina roth eisenberg
UX Magazine is a free community resource exploring all facets of experience design
UXBooth is a publication by and for the user experience community
IDEO
Design Shack established in 2003, Design Shack is a magazine for creatives, designers, and developers
Booooooom was launched in 2008 by Vancouver-based artist Jeff Hamada. It is Canada’s highest traffic art platform, and one of the largest on the Internet
designmodo provides articles, tutorials and industry news about trends and techniques
webdesignerdepot
UX Movement shows you which way gives the best user experience
Speckyboy was launched with the intent of serving as an inspirational hub for web designers
HUGE
Sitepoint Blog
UIE helps people have the expertise they need to deliver better design
Attack the Front
codrops is a web design and development blog that publishes articles and tutorials about the latest web trends, techniques and new possibilities
The Great Discontent is a print publication and online magazine featuring inspiring conversations with today’s artists, makers, and risk-takers
Underconsideration are a graphic design firm generating it own projects, initiatives, and content while taking on limited client work
Little Big Details is a curated collection of the finer details of design, updated every day
WAYS WE WORK is a digital publication focused on telling stories and getting first-hand accounts of how people do the work they love
Creative Review has been bringing the creative community together since 1980
Creativeoverflow is an online design magazine for anything creative
FORM UP NORTH
Facebook is a facebook design blogs
Facebook Design on Medium experiences from the people designing products billions of people use every day
Hacking UI is a community for designers, developers and creative entrepreneurs with a passion
PixelSquid Blog
LOGO DESIGN LOVE is a website and book devoted to the design of logos and brand identities
DesignM.ag is a community-based website for web designers and developers
HeyDesigner daily curated design knowledge
Nicely Done is a curation of the nicest digital products
Dropbox Design on Medium Stories and musings from the Dropbox Design team. 🌟
Designer News is a large, global community of people working in design and technology or those interested in the topics. 🌟
Sidebar has been collecting the best links about UI design, typography, CSS, user research, and all other facets of design since 2012. 🌟
CodePen Blog where CodePen post announcements, tips and tricks, new and updated features, fun roundups, new podcast episodes, and more
Web Designer News curated stories for designers. 🌟
The UX for VR is a curated list of resources to help you on your journey into the User Experience of Virtual Reality
Reeoo provides web design inspiration and gallery for web designers
CREATIVE BLOQ delivers a daily mix of advice and inspiration for digital and traditional artists, web designers, graphic designers, 3D and VFX artists, illustrators, and more. 🌟
Pond5
Dexigner
Nicce on Medium Gather, share & discuss ideas with your team
Artwxrk
Designspiration is committed to being the best product that it can
Freebiesbug Hand-picked resources for web designer and developers, constantly updated
Muuuuu
Muzli on Medium The freshest links about design and interactive, from around the web
The Best Designs
Flat Inspire is a curated gallery & showcase of the best websites rocking a Flat Design/UI style
Site Inspire is a showcase of the finest web and interactive design
Media Queries
One Page Love is the leading showcase of beautiful One Page websites, templates and resources
Admire the Web
Pttrns
CRAFTED BY LOVE
HTTPSTER
Empty States
Call to Idea
Siiimple
Zurb PatternTap
Land Book created this place for Designers, Developers, Product Owners, Marketing Managers, Startupers, Freelancers and, really, for everyone who appreciates fine designs and well-crafted sites
oozled
DESIGN DETAILS
officelovin is an online platform about office architecture & design
Best Website The most beautiful websites handpicked for you — since 2008!
FreeDesignResources
Abduzeedo
Material UI
1stwebdesigner By web design professionals, for web design professionals. We're on a mission to help you build a better web
EMOJI CHEAT SHEET
EMOJI CSS
DesignShock is the biggest bundle/subscription you can find in one place including icons, avatars, graphic elements, GUI packs, design sets and both web and print templates
SVG PORN
Up is the leading community of creatives, offering the best downloadable resources, every day
Freebbble
Baianat
Graphberry provide you with the creative graphic resources you need to transform into your personal or commercial work
UX Project Checklist 🌟
TRIDIV is a web-based editor for creating 3D shapes in CSS
Mobile Mozaic
wwwhere
Lapa is a gallery featuring the best 1920 landing page examples from around the web
Designer Mill
Freebiesjedi
Webfieldmanual
UXTOOLS
CodeMyUI Web Design & UI Inspiration with Code Snippets
A List Apart has been discussing design, development and meaning of web content since 1997 and remains a great resource for designers and programmers alike

Awesome Design / Styleguide and Branding

Brand Style Guide Examples
Mozilla
Mailchimp
Lonely Planet
Starbucks
Yelp
IBM
Uber
Atlassian
Dropbox
Spotify
Youtube
Facebook - Brand Resource Center Book
Vimeo
Ubuntu
BBC
Channel4
Twitter
Nike Pro
Medium
Linkedin
Red Cross
Marvel
buffer
VSCO
Instagram
WhatsApp
Snapchat
Atlassian
Clarity
Apple iOS
Apple macOS
Google Trends
Google Visual Assets Guidelines
Google Design for Glass
Google Material Design
Microsoft Design
Microsoft Fluent Design System
NASA 2011
NASA 1976
Ant Design is a design system with values of Nature and Determinacy for better user experience of enterprise applications
Audi Audi Corporate Identity Portal

Awesome Design / Tutorial

Lynda is a leading online learning platform that helps anyone learn business, software, technology and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals. 🌟
CreativeLive
DesignSchool Anyone can make beautiful designs with Canva
Envato Tuts+ helps you learn creative skills and shape the life you want
Udemy The leading global marketplace for learning and instruction
AboutCG 前身是 CG 共和国(CGGHG), 是成立于2004年的计算机图形图像教学服务网站,也是国内最早的原创CG视频教学的制作者。
DevDojo
Platzi Growth marketing Course
greyscalegorilla

Awesome Design / Book

Universal Principles of Design
Universal Methods of Design
Don't Make Me Think
About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design
How to Be a Graphic Designer without Losing Your Soul
Simple and Usable Web, Mobile, and Interaction Design
Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience
Designing Interfaces
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People
The UX Book: Process and Guidelines for Ensuring a Quality User Experience
Thinking with Type
The Elements of Graphic Design
Usability Matters: Mobile-first UX for developers and other accidental designers
Design for the Mind

Awesome Design / Award

Good Design Award has been a sole comprehensive design evaluation and commendation system in Japan sin 1957
Red Dot Award stands for belonging to the best in design and business. It's international design competition, the “Red Dot Design Award”, is aimed at all those who would like to distinguish their business activities through design. 🌟
Apple Design Awards is a special event hosted by Apple Inc. at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference. 🌟
iF Product Design Award was introduced in 1954 and is annually conferred by the iF International Forum Design. The award, which spans multiple disciplines, has more than 5,500 entries from around 59 nations every year. 🌟
FWA to showcase cutting edge creativity, regardless of the medium or technology used
CSS Design Awards is a web design & development award platform for digital folk, UI/UX peeps and inspiring leaders of the web
CSS Awards is a web designer/agency/studio inspiration gallery, where a high quality of CSS websites placed from around the world
Creative AD Awards Discover the Most Creative & Sophisticated Advertising Campaigns around the World
D&AD
Awwwards The awards for design, creativity and innovation on the Internet. 🌟
CSS Winner is a unique global platform awarding and showcasing the best websites and promoting innovative web designers, developers and agencies

Awesome Design / Conference and Festival

Uideo talks for designers from 69 ux/ui conferences all over the world
MAX Get inspired. Learn skills. Play
The AIGA Design Conference
SXSW founded in 1987 in Austin, Texas, SXSW is best known for its conference and festivals that celebrate the convergence of the interactive, film, and music industries
ICON9 brings together top illustrators, designers, educators, representatives, and art buyers to explore the future of illustration
Mirror is a conference designed to empower designers and front-end developers who have a thirst for knowledge and want to broaden their horizons
Interaction
Offset has fast become one of the world’s most inspirational, educational and vocational conferences for the design and creative industries
99U Adobe 99U Conference
Typographics is a multi-part event series foc­used on con­tempo­rary typo­graphy and where its future may lie
Brand New Conference is a two-day event organized by UnderConsideration
How Design Live is one of the largest annual gatherings of creative professionals in the world, HOW Design Live is a career-changing, life-altering experience
Better by Design is about conference & workshops
What Design Can Do is an international platform on the impact of design
Design and Content The Conference for Designers & Content Strategists — we're better together
generate the award winning conference for web designers returns to NYC!
Typo International Design Talks is where the world’s design experts speak
Service Design Days
SemiPermanent
Dribbble Meetups are a chance for designers to socialize, talk shop, and foster their local design communities
CreativeMornings is a breakfast lecture series for the creative community
CodePen Meetups for like-minded code people to hang out, do show-and-tell, and bask in the lovely culture that is front end

Awesome Design / Podcast

99% INVISIBLE
Shop Talk is an internet radio show about the internet starring and
workmode is a podcast series about being a pro
UX Podcast is a twice-monthly digital design podcast sharing insights about business, technology and people since 2011
Anyway.fm - 设计杂谈 是一档播客节目,由 UI 设计师 JJ Ying 和 Leon Gao 主播,我们的目标是让你的听觉更懂视觉。
The Deeply Graphic Design The web + graphic design podcast that offsers both pratical and creative design advice you can use
Tentative.fm is a podcast about digital product design. Hosted by thoughtbot's Chief Design Officer Kyle Fiedler & Boston Design Director Jaclyn Perrone
Pagebreak is an audio podcast hosted by and
Design Matters The world's first podcast about design and an inquiry into the broader world of creative culture through wide-ranging conversations with designers, writers, artists, curators, musicians, and other luminaries of contemporary thought
The Greate Discontent Podcast features in-depth conversations with today’s artists, makers, and risk-takers
Design Details Podcast A weekly conversation about design process and culture
Layout.fm A weekly podcast about design, technology, programming and everything else
Type is Beautiful - 字谈字畅 是第一档用华语制作的字体排印主题播客节目,由 Eric Liu 与钱争予搭档主播。
Boagworld UX Show Every Thursday Paul Boag and Marcus Lillington are joined by a variety of guests to discuss a range of web design related topics
Responsive Web Design Podcast Karen and Ethan interview the people who make responsive redesigns happen
Adventures in Design
The Hacking UI Podcast is hosted by Sagi Shrieber and David Tintner, who are both a designer and developer as well as entrepreneurs, bloggers, productivity/time-hacker maniacs, and all around tech geeks
CodePen Radio is a podcast all about what it's like running a small web software business. The good, the bad, and the ugly
UX COFFEE - 设计咖 设计无处不在。在这个节目里,我们试图探寻设计的力量、这个世界被创造的过程、以及参与设计了这个世界的人们。主播:Riceman、Hoka、帆啊帆、张挠挠。

Awesome Design / Community

Dribbble Show and tell for designers. 🌟
Behance Showcase and discover the latest work from top online portfolios by creative professionals across industries. 🌟
Medium is a place to read, write, and interact with the stories that matter most to you. 🌟
Fribbble Free PSD files and other free design resources by Dribbblers
DeviantArt The largest online art gallery and community
CARGO
tumblr Come for what you love. Stay for what you discover

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