Awesome Design focuses on collecting high quality resources and tools which can be used by UI/UX designers in daily work. Thanks to the community, the repo keeps being updated continuously from people around the world who provide amazing resources. Don’t hesitate to open an issue or create pull request to share your intelligence.
What should I do with the curated resources?
People, including developers, designers, scientists and others, create awesome things every single day. To be honest, we who are not superheroes, can’t know all best things from the world. So, for saving your time, i suggest you to pick those you like, take benefits from them, and finally put it into your kit. :smile:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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。
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.
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.
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 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. 🌟
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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 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.
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. 🌟
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.
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
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.
Lynda is a leading online learning platform that helps anyone learn business, software, technology and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals. 🌟
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.