ux-design-awards.com
International awards for product and service experiences, with seasonal winner showcases across digital and physical UX.
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developer.apple.com
Apple's yearly picks for the best-designed apps and games, by category. The bar for native iOS and macOS craft.
webbyawards.com
Major internet awards covering websites, apps, AI and social. Browse winners by category for best-in-class benchmarks.
thefwa.com
Favourite Website Awards, running since 2000. Daily picks of cutting-edge interactive and experiential web work.
cssdesignawards.com
Daily website awards scored on UI, UX and innovation. A good second lens alongside Awwwards for standout web work.
awwwards.com
The leading web design awards: daily Site of the Day picks judged by designers, plus collections, courses and jobs.
goodemailcopy.com
Front's curated collection of product and lifecycle emails from great companies, focused on copy, tone and structure.
milled.com
Search engine for brand newsletters and promo emails. Look up any company to see its email history and cadence.
emaillove.com
Email designs from 8,200+ brands with journeys and trend reports. Free to browse; paid Figma plugin and builder.
reallygoodemails.com
The best-known email inspiration library, organized by email type and brand. Now part of Beefree, with RGE Studio.
personalsit.es
Open-source directory of 1,000+ personal websites from designers and developers. Great for indie, personal-web ideas.
framer.com
Framer's showcase of portfolio sites built on the platform. Useful for modern layouts, motion and case study pages.
uxportfolios.design
Small, hand-reviewed library of standout UX and product design portfolios. No paid placements, quality over volume.
wallofportfolios.in
Curated UX, UI and product design portfolios and case studies, filterable by style, with a monthly top pick.
brandingstyleguides.com
Archive of real brand guideline documents from companies worldwide. Use it to structure your own guidelines deliverables.
brandarchive.xyz
Mobbin-style library of brand identities: logos, fonts, applications and art direction from brands past and present.
logosystem.co
1,300+ curated logos, wordmarks, symbols and animated logos by top designers, sorted by type for quick reference.
the-brandidentity.com
Editorial showcase of top identity, graphic and type projects with studio interviews. Strong on contemporary art direction.
bpando.org
Branding, Packaging and Opinion: in-depth critiques of identity and packaging work from studios worldwide.
underconsideration.com
UnderConsideration's daily reviews of logo and identity redesigns with before/after comparisons and reader opinions.
typefoundry.directory
Searchable directory of 390+ independent type foundries, filterable by country, language support and licensing model.
tdc.org
Annual TDC typography and type design competition with a browsable winners archive. The benchmark for type excellence.
typographicposters.com
Curated archive of typographic poster design since 2008, searchable by designer, color and tag. Strong for expressive type.
fontsinuse.com
Independent archive of 34,000+ real-world typeface uses, searchable by font, format and industry. See type in context.
detail.design
Curated small product decisions: interaction mechanics, motion, copy and accessibility details that make UIs feel crafted.
designspells.com
300+ delightful micro-interactions, transitions and easter eggs from real products. Reach for it when a UI needs charm.
60fps.design
2,100+ animation and interaction shots from top iOS and web apps, tagged by gesture, effect and pattern.
public.tableau.com
Daily featured dashboards from the Tableau Public community. Handy for dense, real-data layout and chart ideas.
flowingdata.com
Nathan Yau's long-running blog of standout data visualization, posted near-daily. Members get tutorials and courses.
data-to-viz.com
Decision tree that maps your data shape to suitable chart types, with caveats and common mistakes for each.
datavizproject.com
Ferdio's visual catalogue of chart types, browsable by function, shape and input data. Use it to pick the right chart.
dashboarddesignpatterns.github.io
Research-based pattern library for dashboard layout, structure, interaction and data representation. Great for planning.
iosicongallery.com
Jim Nielsen's continuously updated archive of iOS app icons, with sister galleries for macOS and watchOS.
pttrns.com
Veteran mobile pattern library, 7k+ production screenshots by pattern. Now free with an account; good for platform conventions.
uiland.design
168k+ mobile screens plus web pages, flows and flow videos, with strong coverage of African apps. Figma-editable layers.
spottedinprod.com
Short clips of the best iOS UI details and interactions, tagged by gesture, pattern and style. Fresh clip of the day.
screensdesign.com
iOS app library with full session videos, onboarding, paywalls and store screenshots from 2,700+ apps. Acquired UI Sources.
aiverse.design
Playbook for AI-native products: 300+ AI UX interaction examples, design patterns and case studies, added weekly.
shapeof.ai
Emily Campbell's pattern library for AI interfaces: prompting, tuning, trust and governance, each with live product examples.
checklist.design
Best-practice checklists for pages, components and flows like login, pricing and payments. Use before handoff or critique.
saaspo.com
Curated B2B SaaS websites and pages, filterable by industry, style and section. Good for marketing-site benchmarks.
nicelydone.club
200k+ screens, flows and in-context components from 500+ SaaS apps. Search by on-screen text and export to Figma.
saasframe.io
SaaS UI and website examples by page type (dashboards, billing, tables, AI pages). Pro adds Figma file downloads.
refero.design
Searchable reference library of real web and iOS product screens and flows, updated weekly. Has a Figma plugin and MCP.
landing.love
2,100+ animated landing pages captured as full-page video recordings, so you see scroll and motion, not just stills.
landingfolio.com
Landing page gallery by industry and color, with copy-paste components for Figma, Tailwind and Webflow.
saaslandingpage.com
840+ SaaS landing pages plus pricing, features, FAQ and about pages. Filter by tag, font and tech stack.
onepagelove.com
The go-to showcase for single-page sites: launch pages, portfolios and product one-pagers, plus matching templates.
land-book.com
Large, daily-updated landing page gallery with deep filters for industry, style, color, typography and build platform.
bestwebsite.gallery
David Hellmann's hand-picked site of the day archive, 2,600+ websites collected since 2008. Clean, rated, easy to scan.
maxibestof.one
Weekday-updated feed of curated websites, broken down into reusable sections (hero, pricing, footer) and the fonts they use.
hoverstat.es
Gallery of experimental, unconventional websites. Use it to break out of template thinking on navigation, type and layout.
minimal.gallery
Hand-picked minimal, typography-led websites since 2013. Reach for it when you need restraint and whitespace done well.
recent.design
Godly's rebrand: a curated gallery of standout live websites with video previews, plus branding, product and motion work.
siteinspire.com
Long-running, tightly curated showcase of well-crafted websites, filterable by style, type and subject. Updated daily.
designbuddies.community
Discord community of 100K+ designers with portfolio reviews, events, mentorship and a job board.
friends.figma.com
Figma's official network of local chapters running meetups, workshops and Config watch parties.
muz.li
Design inspiration feed and weekly designers update with curated projects, tools and trend roundups.
tympanus.net
Creative front-end tutorials and demos on WebGL, GSAP and motion. The go-to for interaction and animation ideas.
figma.com
Product launches, Config news and essays on craft and AI. Follow it to keep up with Figma's tooling.
uxdesign.cc
Large independent publication on UX and product design, plus a weekly newsletter on industry shifts.
densediscovery.com
Kai Brach's thoughtful weekly newsletter on design, technology, urbanism and sustainability.
uxdesignweekly.com
Kenny Chen's Monday roundup of the best UX articles, tools and portfolios, now past 600 issues.
sidebar.io
Five hand-picked design links every weekday since 2012, now curated by UX Collective's Fabricio Teixeira.
fastcompany.com
Fast Company's design desk covering product, brand and the business of design, including AI.
itsnicethat.com
Showcases standout work in graphic design, branding and illustration. Good for visual and brand inspiration.
creativebloq.com
Daily news, reviews and tutorials across design, art and creative tech, including tools and hardware.
smashingmagazine.com
In-depth articles on UX, front-end and accessibility, plus books and workshops. Essential long-form reading.
rosenfeldmedia.com
UX publisher of practitioner books on research, content and design ops, such as Interviewing Users.
practical-ui.com
Adham Dannaway's 373-page book of logic-driven UI guidelines, bundled with a Figma design system starter kit.
refactoringui.com
Adam Wathan and Steve Schoger's tactical book on making interfaces look polished, from the creators of Tailwind CSS.
adplist.org
Book 1:1 calls with 36,000+ mentors in design and product. Your first session is free; many mentors charge after.
memorisely.com
Live, hands-on bootcamps in UI, UX research, design systems and AI design engineering, taught inside real tools.
designlab.com
Mentor-led online UX bootcamp with portfolio projects and career coaching, full-time or part-time.
ai-design-patterns.com
Vitaly Friedman's 10-hour course on UX patterns for AI products, with checklists and optional live training.
smart-interface-design-patterns.com
Vitaly Friedman's video course on 100 practical UI patterns with real examples, plus optional live UX training.
shiftnudge.com
Matt D. Smith's interface design course built on 16 visual principles. Opens for enrollment periodically.
learnui.design
Erik Kennedy's 36+ hour video course on visual UI design: color, type, layout and more. Opens in enrollment windows.
help.figma.com
Figma's official courses, from Figma Design for beginners to design systems and prototyping.
ixdf.org
One membership for 40 self-paced UX, UI and AI courses plus master classes and certificates. Strong for team training.
uxdesigninstitute.com
University credit-rated UX diploma (20 ECTS) taken online over about six months, with 1:1 mentoring.
coursera.org
Four-course Coursera program from research to hi-fi Figma prototypes, covering accessibility and Fluent 2.
dittowords.com
Product copy management with AI drafting and style-guide checks, plus an MCP server for AI coding tools.
attentioninsight.com
Predictive attention heatmaps for designs before launch. Check whether CTAs and key content actually get seen.
dovetail.com
Research repository that auto-tags transcripts, clusters themes and answers questions with cited customer quotes.
looka.com
AI logo and brand-kit generator. Useful for quick identity explorations before committing to custom brand work.
kittl.com
Browser design tool with AI vector generation, brand kits and strong type tools for logos and brand assets.
recraft.ai
AI image model that outputs editable SVG vectors. Great for on-brand icons, logos and illustration sets.
magnific.com
Creative AI upscaler that adds detail to renders and images; now also the name of Freepik's full AI suite.
weave.figma.com
Formerly Weavy: a node-based canvas that chains image and video models with pro editing into reusable workflows.
krea.ai
Real-time AI image and video suite with many models, editing and a high-res enhancer in one canvas.
midjourney.com
Leading image model for art direction, moodboards and hero visuals. V8 added faster, native 2K output.
magicpatterns.com
AI prototyping that works from your design system and components, producing shareable flows and React code.
lovable.dev
Chat-based full-stack app builder. Use it to ship clickable, data-backed prototypes and MVPs in hours.
v0.app
Vercel's AI builder for React and Tailwind UIs and full-stack apps, with a visual Design Mode for fine-tuning.
figma.com
Figma's prompt-to-app tool. Turns prompts or existing frames into working React prototypes without leaving Figma.
relume.ai
Turns a brief into a sitemap and wireframes from its component library, exporting to Figma, Webflow or React.
visily.ai
AI wireframing from text or screenshots, plus diagrams and prototypes. Handy for fast alignment with PMs and founders.
uxpilot.ai
Generates wireframes and hi-fi screens from prompts, with a Figma plugin to edit and export results.
stitch.withgoogle.com
Google's AI design canvas (formerly Galileo AI). Prompt multi-screen UI flows, then export to Figma or HTML/Tailwind.
designbetterpodcast.com
Weekly podcast since 2017 with design leaders on creativity, teams and building with AI.
dive.club
Ridd's weekly interviews with top product designers on craft, AI workflows and design engineering.
casestudy.club
Curated UX and product design case studies with a weekly newsletter. Use it to benchmark process write-ups and portfolios.
guidance.publishing.service.gov.uk
The UK government's content design and plain-English guidance. A benchmark for writing to real user needs.
learn.microsoft.com
Microsoft's guide to clear, friendly UI text, from error messages and word choice to bias-free language.
styleguide.mailchimp.com
Mailchimp's public voice, tone and writing guide. A proven template when defining product copy standards.
designsystems.surf
Searchable gallery of real design systems, components and foundations, plus articles. Pro adds templates and audit tools.
component.gallery
60 components compared across 95 design systems, with 2,600+ examples. Research naming and patterns before you spec one.
carbondesignsystem.com
IBM's open-source system with deep usage guidance, data viz and Carbon for AI patterns for chat and agent experiences.
atlassian.design
Atlassian's foundations, components and content guidelines. A strong reference for dense, collaborative SaaS interfaces.
developer.apple.com
Apple's official guidance for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS and visionOS. Check it before designing any native Apple experience.
m3.material.io
Google's design system, now with M3 Expressive. Reference for components, color roles, motion and Android patterns.
webaim.org
Accessibility nonprofit with practical articles, a contrast checker and the WAVE evaluator. Use it to test and explain issues.
w3.org
W3C's filterable list of every WCAG 2.2 success criterion with techniques. The source of truth for compliance checks.
a11yproject.com
Community-run accessibility checklist, patterns and resources in plain language. A fast first stop for a11y questions.
producttalk.org
Teresa Torres on continuous discovery, customer interviews and opportunity solution trees. Reach for it when setting up discovery.
baymard.com
Large-scale usability research on e-commerce, checkout and mobile UX. Free articles; paid benchmarks and guidelines for audits.
userinterviews.com
User Interviews' 10-module guide to planning, recruiting, running, synthesizing and reporting user research.
web.dev
Google's free course by Jeremy Keith on responsive layout, type, images and theming. Solid grounding before designing across breakpoints.
deceptive.design
Harry Brignull's catalogue of dark patterns, the laws against them and enforcement cases. Use it to spot and push back on manipulative flows.
vectorizer.ai
AI raster-to-vector converter that turns PNG or JPG logos and art into clean SVG, EPS or PDF. Free preview before you pay.
jakearchibald.github.io
Web UI for SVGO. Drop in an SVG, toggle optimizations and export a smaller, cleaner file before dev handoff.
squoosh.app
Google Chrome Labs' in-browser image compressor with side-by-side quality comparison. Files never leave your device.
zeplin.io
Handoff and documentation layer: publish screens from Figma and developers get specs, assets, styles and code snippets.
accessiblepalette.com
Builds color scales with consistent perceived lightness in CIELAB/LCh, so contrast stays predictable across shades.
apcacontrast.com
Checks text contrast with APCA, the perceptual model developed for WCAG 3, with guidance tied to font size and weight.
whocanuse.com
Shows how a color pair reads for people with different vision types, alongside its WCAG contrast grade.
getstark.co
Accessibility suite with Figma and Sketch plugins and browser extensions for contrast checks, vision simulation and audits.
webaim.org
The reference WCAG 2 contrast checker. Enter two colors and get AA/AAA pass or fail for normal text, large text and UI.
logoipsum.com
200+ placeholder logos for mockups, customer logo strips and case studies. Copy as SVG or use the Figma plugin.
simpleicons.org
Thousands of CC0 SVG brand icons with each brand's official hex color, available via npm and CDN.
svgl.app
Open-source library of 600+ clean SVG logos for tech, AI and dev-tool brands, with copy-ready SVGs and an API.
brandfetch.com
Look up logos, colors and fonts for 50M+ brands by name or domain. Handy for logo walls and integration screens.
unicorn.studio
No-code WebGL tool with 75+ effects for interactive hero backgrounds, shaders and motion graphics that embed on any site.
lordicon.com
47,000+ hand-animated icons with hover, loop and morph states. Export to Lottie, GIF or MP4, or embed via JS.
rive.app
Interactive animation tool with state machines and native runtimes for web, iOS, Android and game engines.
lottiefiles.com
Huge library of free and premium Lottie animations, plus Lottie Creator for building and exporting dotLottie in the browser.
contentreel.design
Microsoft's Figma plugin for filling layouts with realistic names, avatars, text strings and icons in one click.
figma.com
Draws connector arrows between frames that follow when you move them. The quickest way to map user flows in Figma.
html.to.design
Import any live website into Figma as editable layers with auto layout and styles. Useful for audits, redesigns and benchmarks.
tokens.studio
Figma plugin and platform for managing design tokens and syncing them with GitHub and code. Built for multi-brand systems.
magicui.design
150+ free animated React components built with Tailwind and Motion, designed as a companion to shadcn/ui.
developer.apple.com
Official Figma and Sketch kits for iOS, macOS, watchOS and visionOS, plus SF Symbols, SF fonts and device bezels.
figma.com
Thousands of free and paid UI kits on Figma Community, including official kits from Apple, Google and Microsoft.
untitledui.com
Figma design system with 10,000+ components and variants, a matching open-source React library and an icon set.
ui.shadcn.com
Open-source React components on Radix/Base UI and Tailwind that you copy into your codebase. The baseline for most SaaS UIs.
lummi.ai
Stock photos, illustrations and 3D made by humans and AI, with built-in reframe, restyle and background removal.
mixkit.co
Free stock video clips, music, sound effects and video templates from Envato. No sign-up or attribution needed.
pexels.com
Free stock photos and videos for commercial use without attribution. Strong for lifestyle, workplace and b-roll.
unsplash.com
High-quality free photos under the Unsplash License, with a paid Unsplash+ tier and a Figma plugin for placing images in-file.
ls.graphics
Premium device and branding mockups in PSD, Figma and Sketch, plus an online editor. A free selection is available.
mockuuups.studio
5,200+ device and print mockups. Drop a design in once and preview it on all of them, via web, desktop or Figma plugin.
rotato.app
Mac app for animated 3D device mockups. Drop in a screen or recording, move the camera, export product videos up to 8K.
shots.so
Turn screenshots into polished device mockups and animated videos with auto backgrounds, shadows and social-size presets.
shapefest.com
100,000+ Cinema 4D renders of abstract shapes, icons and glass, clay or metal materials. Free packs plus hi-res premium.
thiings.co
10,000+ AI-generated 3D object icons as transparent PNGs. Handy for playful empty states, onboarding and marketing visuals.
3dicons.co
1,400+ CC0 3D icon renders in several angles and finishes, free for commercial use with no attribution.
spline.design
Browser-based 3D design tool for interactive scenes and objects, with a remixable community library and web embeds.
icons8.com
Illustration library in 20+ consistent styles, with modular editable vectors plus 3D and animated sets.
blush.design
Mix-and-match illustration collections from artists worldwide. Customize characters and scenes, export or use the Figma plugin.
storyset.com
Illustrations in five styles that you can recolor and animate in the browser before export. Has a Figma plugin.
undraw.co
Open-licensed flat illustrations you recolor to your brand before download. No attribution required.
streamlinehq.com
450,000+ assets across 40+ consistent icon families, from minimal Core to hand-drawn Freehand. Free sets plus Pro.
icon-sets.iconify.design
Search 170,000+ open-source icons from 200+ sets in one place, with each set's license shown. Also available as a Figma plugin.
phosphoricons.com
Flexible open-source icon family in six weights, thin to duotone, with Figma plugin and React, Vue, Swift and Flutter packages.
lucide.dev
Open-source stroke icon set (1,800+ icons, ISC license) with packages for React, Vue, Svelte and more. The default icons in shadcn/ui.
cssgradient.io
Linear and radial gradient generator with copy-ready CSS, plus a library of curated gradient swatches.
meshgradient.com
Drag points on a WebGL canvas to warp colors into organic mesh gradients, then export. Quick hero and card backgrounds.
shaders.paper.design
Zero-dependency WebGL shaders (mesh gradients, grain, dithering, halftone, liquid metal) shipped as React components.
haikei.app
Generates SVG blobs, waves, layered peaks, blurry gradients and other backgrounds. Randomize, tweak, export as SVG or PNG.
oklch.com
Evil Martians' OKLCH picker and converter with P3 gamut preview and sRGB fallbacks, for perceptually even palettes.
uicolors.app
Generate Tailwind-style shade scales from a brand hex and preview them on real UI components. Includes a Figma plugin.
realtimecolors.com
Preview a palette and font pairing on a live website layout, check contrast, then export to CSS, Tailwind or Figma.
coolors.co
Fast palette generator (spacebar to shuffle) with 10M+ community palettes, image picker, contrast checker and a Figma plugin.
typescale.com
Build a modular type scale from a base size and ratio, preview it with real fonts, and export the CSS.
uncut.wtf
Free catalogue of 160+ contemporary typefaces across sans, serif, display and mono. A good source of free fonts that don't look default.
typewolf.com
Curated font recommendations, pairings and alternatives to popular typefaces, plus a site-of-the-day typography showcase.
fonts.adobe.com
Large library of retail typefaces included with Creative Cloud, licensed for commercial use and activated straight to your desktop.
designweek.co.uk
The latest design news, trends and industry analysis from the UK's long-running design title.
coursera.org
Google's UX design program on Coursera. Takes you step by step from foundations to a job-ready portfolio.
huemint.com
A machine-learning palette generator that previews colors on real-world mockups to help you decide.
khroma.co
An AI color tool that learns your taste from 50 colors you pick, then generates endless combinations.
growth.design
Product psychology tips and insights told through comic-style case studies.
nngroup.com
The best source to learn UX from: research-backed articles every week, plus paid training.
startdesignsystem.com
A free hub of blogs, tutorials and podcasts on how design systems work and how to build one.
principles.design
An open collection of design principles from companies and thinkers, for understanding design in depth.
uxtools.co
A one-stop shop for UX videos, challenges, tool comparisons and the yearly design tools survey.
goodux.appcues.com
Product UX teardowns plus the Behind the Experience podcast, for telling good UX from bad.
lawsofux.com
Jon Yablonski's collection of UX laws and heuristics, each with related articles.
thearchivemagazine.com
An archive of vintage advertising and graphic design, rich in layout and type ideas.
gameuidatabase.com
A database of game interface screenshots, filterable by screen type, genre and UI element.
designspiration.com
Search UI/UX and graphic design inspiration by color, then save it to collections.
savee.com
A clean, modern visual bookmarking tool and a beautiful source of minimalist design inspiration.
swissted.com
Punk, indie and rock gig posters redrawn in Swiss modernist style by designer Mike Joyce.
bestfolios.com
Your go-to for portfolio inspiration: designer portfolios, resumes and case studies from around the world.
pageflows.com
Recorded user flows and screens from real products, for understanding how UX flows work end to end.
mobbin.com
Real-world screens and flows from leading iOS, Android and web apps, searchable by pattern.
dribbble.com
The single best source for UI/UX and graphic design inspiration from designers worldwide.
footer.design
A gallery of website footer inspiration to reference when designing for the web.
radix-ui.com
Generate a full Radix-style color scale from your brand colors and preview it on real UI.
maketintsandshades.com
Generate tints and shades of any color to build out your design system's palette.
uiverse.io
4,400+ open-source UI elements built with CSS and Tailwind, ready to copy into your project.
jitter.video
A motion design tool for UI animation. Import your Figma files and animate them in the browser.
shortcuts.design
Keyboard shortcuts for almost every design tool, in one searchable place.
mockups-design.com
Thousands of free, premium-quality mockups for devices, print, packaging and branding.
pigment.shapefactory.co
A playful palette maker that builds color pairs from saturation and lightness.
fonts.google.com
1,500+ free, widely used font families with variable axes and one-line web embedding.
fontshare.com
Quality serif and sans-serif fonts from Indian Type Foundry, free for personal and commercial use.
dirtylinestudio.com
A library of bold, characterful display fonts, free to download.
getillustrations.com
170,000+ vector illustrations and icons for web and app projects, in SVG, PNG and AI formats.
fontjoy.com
Generate font pairings balanced by the contrast between them, then lock and tweak each pair.
designgradients.com
Linear gradients curated by talented artists, ready to drop into any project.
toools.design
A one-stop directory of 2,200+ design resources and tools: illustrations, mockups, fonts, AI tools and more, free and paid.
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