My LOOONG list of design resources

All the useful design resources I have ever bookmarked

Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash

Most of the designers will have a really crowded Bookmarks bar, at least mine is. This article is all about the resources I have collected and added to my bookmark bar through the years. I hope this will be helpful to you as it has been to me.

This is going to be a very LOOOOONG article; Grab a cup of coffee ☕ and start Bookmarking

Resources for Color

This includes resources helpful for choosing the perfect color for your next project.

Color Hunt — Color Palettes for Designers and Artists

Free Gradients Collection by itmeo.com

Gradient by ShapeFactory | Chromatic Gradient Generator

Pigment by ShapeFactory | Simple Color Palette Generator

Gradient Colors Collection Palette — CoolHue 2.0

Colourco.de — find your colour palette

198 beautiful gradients and blend image effects FREE by trionndesign.com

Picular

Free Mesh Gradient Collection

Color Palette Generator — Create Beautiful Color Schemes

ColorSpace — Color Palettes Generator and Color Gradient Tool

Colors UI - Popular Colors palettes, solid colors and Tint and Shade generator and more

Resources for Font

Choosing the right font for the next big project is always confusing. Go through some of the below resources which will help you choose the right font.

Free Fonts — Pixel Surplus | Resources For Designers

Roboto + Arial

20 Best Google Web Fonts

Fonts In Use — Type at work in the real world.

TypeSource

45 free retro fonts

FontPair helps you pair Google Fonts together.

Google Fonts

Google Fonts-Analytics

Stock Photo

Free stock photos have always been a myth, but these sites below are changing that and bring life to stock photos.

Free Stock Photos — Simply Beautiful, Creative, Professional | Icons8

Free Travel Photos from BucketListly Blog

Beautiful Free Images & Pictures | Unsplash

Free Stock Photos: High-Res Images for Websites & Commercial Use

Diverse UI

100k_models — Google Drive

https://www.pexels.com/

Duotone by ShapeFactory | Create Beautiful Free Duotones

Icons

Free icons are always welcome, they inspire us to create the perfect icon set for our projects.

Flaticon, the largest database of free vector icons

Explore and Download 2000+ Free Line Icons — LineIcons

Unicons icon library | Line | Monochrome

iconmonstr Free simple icons for your next project

Material Icons

Free icons by first-class designers

Orion Icon Library

Download free icons, music, stock photos, vectors

😋 Get Emoji — All Emojis to ✂️ Copy and 📋 Paste 👌

Noun Project

Animated Icons — 400 Free Icons

Illustrations

All designers are not artists, who can create that perfect illustration for his next project. These resources help you with beautiful illustrations for your next project.

Illustrations | unDraw

Vector Creator — Create engaging illustrations in-browser for free

Open Doodles — Free sketchy illustrations

Free Illustrations

IRA Design by Creative Tim

Free vector illustrations — Ouch.pics

DrawKit — Beautiful Free Illustrations

illlustrations — open source illustrations kit

Humaaans: Mix-&-Match illustration library

Gradientify SVG Icons — The definitive pack for gradient lovers

Open Peeps, Hand-Drawn Illustration Library

Blobmaker — Make organic SVG shapes for your next design

Avataaars Generator — Generate your own avataaars!

Charco | Karthik Srinivas

Glaze | Illustrations

Illustration Gallery by ManyPixels | Open-Source Editable Illustrations

scribbbles

Fresh Folk

Blush, Illustrations for everyone

Pattern Monster - SVG Pattern Generator

Free Download

Designers rely on multiple types of visual content while designing a project. These resources provide free downloadable content to grab so that you can speed up your design flow.

DesignerMill | Collection of Best Free Design Resources

Pixel Surplus | Resources For Designers

Freepik | Graphic Resources for everyone

Cool Backgrounds

Premium & Free Assets for Designers

Download free fonts, logos and graphic design resources.

GraphicBurger

Freebiesbug

Spoon Graphics

Psd, premium icons & free web design resources for designers — latest freebies by PixelBuddha.

Free PSD, graphics and vector files | +60,660 Vectors & PSD — 365PSD.com

DB Freebies Design Resources from Behance and Dribbble

CSS Author

Directory | Illustration Tools

UI Kits, Icons, Templates, Themes and More — UpLabs

Royalty-Free GIFs, GIF Icons and Animated ClipArt GIF — Cliply

Free Mockups and Design Tools [PSD, Sketch, Figma]

Haikei

Free Profile Picture Maker - Create an awesome profile pic from any photo

Sounds & Music

Working with content creation, we know that sound is an important factor. Check these neat sources for free sounds.

YouTube

Unminus | Free Premium Music for Your Projects

Free Music Archive

Free Royalty Free Music — Fugue

Royalty Free Music by Bensound | Stock Music

https://mixkit.co

Free Sound Clips | SoundBible.com

https://www.freesoundeffects.com/

Audio Library Plus - Official Releases

Get Inspired

We now that inspirations come from the most unexpected of the sources. The following are some of the expected sources of inspiration.

UI Movement

Beautiful iOS apps | LaudableApps

Muzli Design Inspiration

siteInspire — Web Design Inspiration

One Page Love — One Page Website Inspiration and Templates

Marvel Blog |

DesignValley | Ultimate design tools depository

Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers

abdz — Have you given up on being inspired?

Inside Design Blog | Thoughts on users, experience, and design

ColorQuote

Playbook — Achieve your career goals

UI Sources | Mobile Design Patterns and Interactions

Really Good Emails

Airbnb Design

Checklist Design — best UI elements for the best UX practices

Search by Muzli

Discover Design Better

Hixle.co

Nicely done — Products & pattern designs inspiration.

Design Kit

The User Experience of Virtual Reality

Mozilla Mixed Reality

Mozilla Mixed Reality Blog

Mobbin — Latest Mobile Design Patterns

Collect UI

DESIGNERCIZE

The Best Free Photoshop Tutorials + Lightroom and Photography As Well

Blogs & Articles

Reading will help us be a better designer. These are some of the articles & books I have been reading lately.

Google Design

Design Better

UX Planet

UX Collective

PHLEARN Magazine

AR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine

Ueno.

Etsy Design

3 practical cheat sheets for designing attention grabbing UIs

The design guide to iOS and Android app icons

Why Altruism Is The Ace To Get Your Dream Design Job — Smashing Magazine

Things Designers Should Know About SEO In 2018 — Smashing Magazine

Redesigning A Digital Interior Design Shop (A Case Study) — Smashing Magazine

The Most Important Color In UI Design

There are 7 types of logo designs: but which type of logo is right for you?

Using a Grid-system in Logo Design

How to create your next design project, completely free

What I Have Learned at Google as a Designer

8 graphic design trends for 2017

Crash Course: UI Design

Ultimate Start guide for beginner UX/UI designers in 2019

List of tools required for the designer in 2018

About the Book

Home | Laws of UX

Enterprise Design Sprints

UX Related Resources

UX the fundamental building block of any design. These are a couple of resources that will help you master the art of UX.

UX Design Articles and Books

UX Crash Course: 31 Fundamentals

Attracting Users To Evaluate Your Product — Smashing Magazine

A Comprehensive Guide To Product Design — Smashing Magazine

UX Planet

138 FREE ebooks on User Experience, Usability, User Interface Design and more

52 Weeks of UX

UX Laws with practical examples.

UI/UX Case Study: Empathizing healthcare for diabetics

UX Case study of Coutloot: C2C (Buy & Sell) platform

Case Study Club — Curated UX Case Study Gallery

UX Techniques -

UX Your Life: Applying The User-Centered Process To Your Life (And Stuff) — Smashing Magazine

Tools for better thinking

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