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Curated Design Tools Awesome

A curated list of the tools we use to enhance our design wokflow

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Design Applications

  • ExcaliDraw - (⭐ Open Source ⭐) Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.
  • Adobe XD - Wireframe, design, prototype, present, and share amazing experiences for web, mobile, voice, and more.
  • Figma - Figma helps teams create, test, and ship better designs from start to finish.
  • Sketch - A digital design toolkit that helps you work and collaborate faster in design, wireframing and prototyping projects.
  • Lunacy - Free of charge Windows graphic design app that works offline and offers all the power of Sketch (inlcuding reading sketch files).

Design tools

  • Grabient - Beautiful and simple UI for generating web gradients.
  • Blob Maker - Make organic svg shapes for your next design.
  • Coolors - Generate perfect color combinations for your designs.
  • Metatags - Edit and experiment with your content then preview how your webpage will look on Google, Facebook, Twitter and more!
  • Css filters - Visual playground for generating CSS for custom and Instagram like photo filters.
  • CSS Gradient Editor - You may only need this tool for creating CSS gradient backgrounds and patterns.
  • Pigment - A unique way to generate fresh and vibrant colors based on lighting and pigment, instead of math.

Patterns & backgrounds

  • Cool Backgrounds - Explore a beautifully curated selection of cool backgrounds that you can add to blogs, websites, or as desktop and phone wallpapers.
  • Toptal subtle patterns - Free high quality patterns for your next web project.
  • Trianglify.io - A tool for generating low poly triangle patterns that can be used as wallpapers and website assets.
  • Flaticon Patterns - Mesh up flaticon's icons to form colorful background patterns.
  • Heropatters - A collection of repeatable SVG background patterns for you to use on your digital projects.
  • Css Gradient - As a free css gradient generator tool, this website lets you create a colorful gradient background for your website, blog, or social media profile.
  • Patterninja - Combine images to create patterns that can be downloaded in high resolution and used for printing and the web.
  • uiGradient - This website has a bunch of gradient suggestions. You can get the CSS code or get inspiration of various colour combinations for gradients.
  • Colordesigner - the main purpose of this tool is to help with building a color palette and generate tints and shades based on it. Just pick a color, and the app does the rest.
  • Adobe Color - Adobe Color is a web app and creative community where you can create and share color themes and inspiration. You can also create new colour palettes and themes, extract a colour theme from an image, normalize colour contrasts as well as convert colours to different colour models, maintaining brightness and colour accuracy.

Design Inspiration

  • Dribbble - Where designers gain inspiration, feedback and is your best resource to discover and connect with designers worldwide.
  • Mobbin Design - Check out the hand-picked collection of latest mobile design patterns from apps that reflect the best in design.
  • Evernote Design 🔥 - All in One Bookmark Links for Designer.
  • Page Flows - User flow videos & screenshots to inspire you when you're stuck.
  • Designspiration - Cool designs and hd pictures.
  • Codepen - CodePen is a social development environment for front-end designers and developers.
  • Landing Folio - Landingfolio features the best landing page designs on the web, updated weekly.
  • Behance - Showcase and discover the latest work from top online portfolios by creative professionals across industries.
  • Lapa Ninja - The best landing page design inspiration from around the web. The contents are selected from the best designs, and daily updated.
  • Codrops - Resource and Inspiration for creative minds, ranging from tutorials on new and experimental concepts, source, icons and tutorials.
  • Land Book - Design gallery with the best and most carefully collected websites. We help creatives find inspiration & motivation to do rad stuff.
  • Nicelydone - Nicely done is a place for User interface inspiration. A tool made by a designer for designers.
  • Awwwards - The awards of design, creativity and innovation on the internet.

Illustrations

  • Absurd Design - Download Surrealist illustrations with sense. Use free for your landing pages and apps. These illustrations combines the absurdity and a deep sense of childishness and naivety.
  • Undraw - Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create.
  • Humaaans - Mix-&-match illustrations of people with a design library for InVIsion Studio and Sketch.
  • IRA Design - Build your own amazing illustrations.
  • DrawKit - MIT licensed SVG illustrations for you to use on your next project, in two different styles, for free!
  • Mixkit - Mixkit Art is a curated gallery of beautiful art and illustration, made by some of the world’s most talented creators, it’s all completely free to use commercially.

Animations

  • Lotties Files - LottieFiles is a library for Adobe After Effects animations that can be used with AirBnB's Lottie Library. There is a selection of free animations and then a marketplace for animations on sale.

Emojis

  • Emojipedia 😊 - If you need some emojis to add to your UI. You can search them from here and copy paste them that easy 👍🏽.

Svg Icons

  • Zondicons - A set of free premium SVG icons for you to use on your digital products.
  • Icomoon - WebApp that lets you create your own package of icons from different sources there are both paid and free sources.
  • Material icons - Material icons are delightful, beautifully crafted symbols for common actions and items.
  • Flaticon - A repostitory of scalable vector icons and icon packs. The site gives you the ability to search for related icons to a selected icon/asset.
  • Basicons - Basic icons for product design & development. Designed with care & precision. Updated & refined weekly.
  • Heroicons - Free, open source icons from the creators of Tailwind CSS.

Typography

  • Fontpair - Font Pair helps designers pair Google Fonts together. Beautiful Google Font combinations and pairs.
  • Fontpairingsbypeople - Check typefaces and font pairings with this interactive tool.
  • Type-scale - Preview and choose the right type scale for your project. Experiment with font size, scale and different webfonts.
  • Archetype - Archetype lets designers like you very quickly and easily create consistent typography styling and spacing live, in the browser.

Fonts

  • Google Fonts - Making the web more beautiful, fast, and open through great typography.
  • Open Foundry - A new platform for open-source fonts in a noise-free environment, to highlight their beauty, extend functionality and encourage further exploration.
  • Open-Source Types - Various sources for open license fonts, which means free for personal and commercial use.

Font Icons

  • Font Awesome - Get vector icons and social logos on your website with Font Awesome.

Stock Video

  • Mixkit - HD videos for you to use, completely free of charge.
  • Pexel Videos - The best free stock videos shared by the Pexels community.

Stock Photos

  • Pexels - Collections of High Definiton stock images an some videos shared by talented creators.
  • Pixabay - Stunning free images & royalty free stock images and videos shared by our talented community.
  • Unsplash - Beautiful Free Images & Pictures; royalty free - oh, you just have to credit the creator.
  • Burst by Shopify - Browse thousands of beautiful copyright-free images. All our pictures are free to download for personal and commercial use, no attribution required.

Design Systems

  • Material Design - A design language that Google developed in 2014.
  • Fluent Design System - A design system developed in 2017 by Microsoft as a revamp of Microsoft Design Language 2.
  • Design Systems Repo - Design Systems Gallery; A comprehensive and curated list of design systems, style guides and pattern libraries that you can use for inspiration.

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