Awesome Web Design

A curated list of awesome resources for digital designers.

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Contents

• Blog & News
• Inspiration
• Colors
• Typography
• Icons
• Images
• Guidelines
• Design Tools
• Prototype Tools
• Tutorials
• Books
• Productivity
• Slack Teams

Blog & News

• Web Designer News: The best curated stories for designers.
• Marvel Blog: The latest news, resources and thoughts from the Marvel team.
• The Next Web: International technology news, business & culture.
• Medium: A community of readers and writers offering unique perspectives on ideas large and small.
• Creative Bloq: Art & design inspiration.
• Smashing Magazine: For professional web designers & developers.
• Sitepoint: A hub for web developers & designers to share their passion for building incredible internet things.
• Designer News: Where the design community meets.
• Reddit Web Design: A place for designers to contribute useful posts, ask questions or engage in discussion.
• Morning Reader: Breaking tech news.
• Google design: Youtube channel featuring videos for designers about Google design.

Inspiration

• Awwwards: Best web design trends.
• One Page Love: Design gallery showcasing the best Single Page websites.
• Inspired UI: Mobile apps design patterns.
• Behance: Showcase & discover creative work.
• Dribbble: Show and tell for designers.
• Product Hunt: The place to discover your next favorite thing.
• UI Movement: The best UI design inspiration, every day.
• Pttrns: The finest collection of design patterns, resources and inspiration.

Colors

• Brandcolors: Official colors for the world’s biggest brands.
• Adobe Color CC: Create color schemes with the color wheel or browse thousands of color combinations from the Kuler community.
• Paletton: A designer tool for creating color combinations that work together well.
• Coolors: Generate infinite color palettes for your designs.
• Lol Colors: Curated color palette inspiration.
• Colordot: A color picker for humans.
• Gradients.io: Curated gradients for designers & developers.
• UI Gradients: Beautiful color gradients.
• Colorzilla: Eyedropper, color picker, gradient generator.

Typography

• Google Web Fonts: Offering an intuitive and robust directory of open source designer web fonts.
• Font Face Ninja Browser Extension: You’re browsing a website and you want to find the name of a font? Here comes the ninja!
• Fontpair: Beautiful Google Font combinations and pairs.
• Type Anything: Create great font combinations.
• Type Scale: Preview and choose the right type scale for your project.
• WhatTheFont: Seen a font in an image and want to know what it is? WhatTheFont will find the closest match.
• Typewolf: Comprehensive web typography info, suggestions for font alternatives, and links to usage in the wild.
• Typ.io: Typography inspiration from real websites.

Icons

• Flat Icon: Thousands of free flat icons.
• Font Awesome: The iconic font and CSS toolkit.
• Icon Finder: 1 million free and premium icons.
• The Noun Project: Icons for Everything.
• Favicon Generator: Favicon & app icon generator.
• Freepik: Free vectors in different formats.
• Vecteezy: A collection of free vector art, vector graphics, illustrator backgrounds, etc.
• Material Icons: Free to use material design icons from Google.
• Ionicons: The premium icon font for Ionic Framework.

Images

• Pexels: Best free stock photos in one place.
• Unsplash.it: Placeholders using a beautiful image gallery.
• Pixabay: High quality photos and illustrations free for commercial use.
• Placehold.it: A quick and simple image placeholder service.
• Imgur: The most awesome images on the internet.
• Flickr: The home for all your photos.

Guidelines

• iOS Human Interface Guidelines: Offers everything you need to design beautiful, engaging iOS apps.
• Google Material Design: A close look at the design, components & resources for Google’s brand.
• Laws of UX: A collection of the maxims and principles that designers can consider when building user interfaces.
• Ultimate Guide: The ultimate guide to mobile app design principles that make your app shine.
• GoodUI: 5 Ways You Can Get A Better UI.

Design Tools

• Sketch: A lightweight program for digital design for Mac.
• Figma: The collaborative interface design tool.
• Adobe XD: Prototyping & wireframing Tool.
• inVision Studio: Rapid prototyping, animation, built-in design systems, and collaboration.
• Canva: Amazingly simple graphic design software.
• Framer X: Interaction Design and UX design software.

Prototype Tools

• Zeplin: A great collaboration tool between designers and developers.
• Avocode: A workspace open to all designers and developers.
• inVision: The world’s leading prototyping, collaboration & workflow platform.
• Justinmind: Prototype faster, communicate better, for web and mobile apps.
• Marvel App: Free mobile & web prototyping for designers.
• Atomic.io: Free in Browser interactive design Tool.
• Flinto: App to create interactive and animated prototypes of designs.

Tutorials

• Treehouse: Brings affordable, technology education to people everywhere.
• Tuts Plus Web Design Tutorials: Free web design and development tutorials.
• Springboard: Personalized approach, designed to help you achieve your goals and advance your career.
• Learn Sketch: Short videos and compiled invaluable resources to help you get started!
• Adobe XD Guide: A 12,000-words-long comprehensive guide for XD beginners and current users.

Books

• Web design playground: A step by step guide from writing your first line of HTML to creating interesting, attractive web pages.
• Don’t make me think
• The design of everyday things
• 100 things every designer needs to know about people

Productivity

• Pomodoro: A cool time management technique for a more productive way to work and study.
• Toggl: Time tracker to improve workplace productivity.
• Trello: Organize and prioritize your projects in a fun, flexible and rewarding way.
• RescueTime: Helps you understand your daily habits so you can focus and be more productive.
• Qbserve: Automatic time tracking, invoicing, and real-time productivity feedback.
• Paste: A smart clipboard history manager for Mac.
• Sip: A color picker for Mac.
• Timing: Automatic time and productivity tracking for Mac.
• Taskade: Collaborative task lists and outlines for teams.

Slack Teams

• Team Sketch: A community for Sketch designers powered by Slack
• Designer Hangout: A place where UXers from around the world discuss user experience.
• Design Talks: A community for UI/UX design, web design, freelancing, design critiques, etc.
• TheDesignerShip: A community of over 1,500+ designers and founders.

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