brandturner / awesome-ui

An "Awesome" curated list but for design (UI & UX) resources. Contains theory, tutorials, books, libraries, and other resources

Awesome-UI

A curated list of awesome UI/UX, and Design Resource for everything related to UI / UX. Contributions are welcome, just do a pull request!

License

MIT

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Table of Contents

1. Prototyping Tools
2. Wireframing Tools
3. Style
   • Colors
   • Icons
     • Stock Icons
   • Imagery
     • Stock Photo
   • Typography
   • Writing
4. Layout
5. Components
6. Patterns
7. Usability
8. Animation
9. Online Courses
10. Podcast
11. Communities
12. Inspiration
13. Checklist
14. Work Flow
15. Other Software & Tools
16. Jobs

#UI-UX Ultimate Guides

• Google Material Design

• Design Code

• Hack Design

• Discover Design

• Google Web Fundamentals

• ux pin

• the hipper element

• smashing magazine

• Hack design

• zurb

• ux-mag

• ux booth

• nn group

• ui-patterns

• uie

• usability geek

• a list apart

• boxes and arrows

• eight shapes

#Prototyping Tools

• Pixate

• Design CC / Adobe Comet

• Invision Sketch

• Proto

• Marvelapp

• Form

• Framer

• Macaw

• Hype 3.5

• Origami

• Flinto

• Webflow

• froont

• webflow

• Krista make text and vector awesome w/ animation

#Wireframing Tools

• Mockplus

• Moqups

• Balsamiq

• AdobeCC

• Adobe Spark

• Mockflow

• Justinmind

• OmniGraffle

• Wireframe.cc

• Mockingbird

• Axure

• Flair Builder

• UX Pin

#Style

Style categories

Colors

• Color Contrast

• TNW: Emotions with Colour

• Kissmetrics: Color for Conversion

• SMW: Color Psychology

• GMD: Color

• DFF: Color theory

###Icons

• GMD: Icons

• Tubik Studio: Icons vs Copy in UI

• Tuts+

###Stock Icons

• Fontello: Icon fonts generator.

• Flat Icon: A search engine for 16000+ glyph vector icons.

• Font Awesome: The iconic font and CSS toolkit.

• Glyphsearch: Search for icons from other icon databases.

• Material Design Icons: 750 Free open-source glyphs by Google.

• Icon Finder: Free icon section of the website.

• Doodle Set: 50 Free Hand Doodle Icons

• Flat Set: Free flat round icons set — 60 icons

• Vector Line Set: Free Vector Line Icons Set — 50 icons

• MakeAppIcon: Generate App Icons of all sizes with a click.

• Endless Icons: Free flat icons and creative stuff.

• Perfect Icons: A social icon creation tool.

• Material Design Icons: 750 Free open-source glyphs by Google.

• Icon Sweets: 60 free vector Photoshop icons.

• Ico Moon: 4000+ free vector icons, icon generator.

• The Noun Project: Thousands of glyph icons from different artists.

###Imagery

• GMD: imagery

####Stock Photos

• Thestocks

• Stock Up

• Pexels

• All The Free Stock: Free stock images, icons, and videos.

• Unsplash: Free (do whatever you want) high-resolution photos.

• Splashbase: Search & discover free, hi res photos & videos.

• Startup Stock Photos: Go. Make something.

• Jay Mantri: Free pics. do anything (CC0). Make magic.

• Moveast: This is a journey of a portuguese guy moving east.

• Travel Coffee Book: Sharing beautiful travel moments.

• Designers Pics: Free photographs for your personal & commercial use.

• Death to the Stock Photo: Free photos sent to you every month.

• Foodie’s Feed: Free food pictures in hi-res.

• Mazwai: Free creative commons HD video clips & footages.

• Jéshoots: New modern free photos.

• Super Famous: Photos by Dutch interaction designer Folkert Gorter.

• Picography: Free hi-resolution photos.

• Pixabay: Free high quality images.

• Magdeleine: A free high-resolution photo every day.

• Snapographic: Free stock photos for personal & commercial use.

• Little Visuals: 7 hi-res images in your inbox every 7 days.

• Splitshire: Delicious free stock photos.

• New Old Stock: Vintage photos from the public archives.

• Picjumbo: Totally free photos.

• Life of Pix: Free high-resolution photos.

• Gratisography: Free high-resolution photos.

• Getrefe: Free photos.

• IM Free: A curated collection of free resources.

• Cupcake: A photographer’s treat by Jonas Nilsson Lee.

• The Pattern Library: Free patterns for your projects.

• Public Domain Archive: New 100% free stock photos.

• ISO Republic: High-quality, free photos for creatives.

• Stokpic: Totally free photos.

• Kaboompics: The best way to get free photos.

• Function: Free photo packs.

• MMT: Free stock photos by Jeffrey Betts.

• Paul Jarvis: Free high-resolution photos.

• Lock & Stock Photos: Free stock photos for you.

• Raumrot: Free high-resolution picture.

###Typography

• GMD: typography

• Font-Pairing

• Typography Intro

• Typography Commentary

• TypeGenius: Find the perfect font combo for your next project.

• FontFaceNinja: Browser extension to find the web fonts a site uses.

• Google Fonts: Free, open-source fonts optimized for the web.

• Font-to-width: Fit pieces of text snugly within their containers.

• Beautiful Web Type: Best typefaces from the Google web fonts directory.

• Font Squirrel: 100% free commercial fonts.

• DaFont: Archive of freely downloadable fonts.

• 1001 Free Fonts: A huge selection of free fonts.

• FontPark: The web’s largest archive of free fonts.

• Typography Resource: Google Fonts

• Inspiration: type wolf

• Inspiration: type inspire

• Inspiration: design inspiration

• Inspiration: dribble

• Inspiration: the inspiration grid

• Inspiration: type for you

• Inspiration: abduzeedo

Font Resource

* [google fonts file](https://github.com/google/fonts)
* [install google font files](https://github.com/qrpike/Web-Font-Load)

###Writing

• GMD: writing

#Layout Layout categories

###Principles

• GMD: layout principles

###Units & Measurement

• GMD: Units & Measurement

###Metrics & Keylines

• GMD: Metrics & keylines

###Structure

• GMD: structure

###Responsive UI

• GMD: responsive ui

###Split Screen

• GMD: split screen

#Components

• GMD

#Patterns

• GMD

#Usability Usability categories

• Design principles
• Usability Book
• Reddit Usability

Accessibility

gmd

Bidirectionality

gmd

#Animation Animation Categories

Drawing

[Draw Space: Drawing] (https://www.drawspace.com/lessons)

###UX Design

• Smashing Magazine

• Google Developers

• Animation Principles

• Animation Principles

• Dashboards

• ux psychology

#Resources

• growth supply

• student web design

• Design for Founder

• Boxes and arrows

• designcode

• ontiwik

• complex

• Tuts+

• Tools

• Person: Paul Boag

• uie

• uxmag

• Sketch app resources

• Sketch toolbox

• Sketch Plugins

• Krista make text and vector awesome

#Online Courses

• Law of Interface Design

• Steer

• WebPlatform

• Learn to Design a Better Interface

• Noexcuselist

• Harvard Open Courseware

• MIT Open Courseware

• Yale Open Courseware — actual video lectures for the class so you can get the in-class experience. Lots of classes over lots of subjects.

• Stanford Open Courseware

• Codecademy — Learn to code interactively, for free.

• Codeplace.com — Learn how to code from scratch. previously Stuk.io

• Udacity — Earn a Nanodegree recognized by industry leaders.

• Learnable — The best way to learn web development.

• Code School — Learn to code by doing.

• Thinkful — Advance your career with 1-on-1 mentorship.

• Code.org — Start learning today with easy tutorials.

• Code School

• Treehouse

• Freecodecamp

• Lynda

• Code.org

• Codeacademy

• Udacity

#Podcasts

• Design Matters

• Deep end design

• Happy Monday

• The Industry

• Adventures in Design

• Boagworld

• Shop Talk Show

• Iterate

• The Back to Front Show

• On the grid

• The Big Web Show

• Upfront Podcast

• Unfinished Business

• The Freelance Web

#Communities

• eventbrite

• meetup

• Designer News

• UXstackexchange

• UX graphic design

• Reddit Design

• Reddix UX

• Designers Talk

• Layervault

#Inspiration

• MatrialUp: Daily material design inspiration.

• FLTDSGN: Daily showcase of the best flat UI design websites and apps.

• Site Inspire: Web design inspiration.

• UI Cloud: The largest user interface design database in the world.

• Moodboard: Build a beautiful moodboard and share the result.

• Crayon: The most comprehensive collection of marketing designs.

• Land-Book: Product landing pages gallery.

• Ocean: A community of designers sharing feedback.

• Dribbble: Show and tell for designers.

• Behance: Showcase & discover creative work.

• Pttrns: Mobile user interface patterns.

• Flat UI Design: Useful board I discovered thanks to Erik.

• Awwwards: The awards for design, creativity and innovation.

• The Starter Kit: Curated resources for developers and designers.

• One Page Love: Resource for one page website inspiration.

• UI Parade: User interface design tools and design inspiration.

• The Best Designs: The best of web design.

• Agile Designers: Best resources for designers & developers.

• Niice: A search engine with taste.

• r/web_design

• r/userexperience

• r/internetisbeautiful

• r/webdesign

• r/smt

• r/androidisbeautiful

• you can almost do anything: logo

• freebiesbug

• tympanus

• ux design from the 90's

Checklist

• UX checklist
• UX checklist repo
• uxchecklist

#Planning

• Planning
  1. Research
  • Competitive Analysis
  • Data Analysis
  • User Feedback
  2. Plan
  • User Stories
  • User Flows
  • Red Routes
  3. Explore
  • Brainstorm & Sketch
  • Wireframe
  • Prototype
  4. Communicate
  • IA
  • Language
  • Accessibility
  5. Create
  • UI Elements
  • Gestures
  • Responsiveness
  6. Give Feedback
  • Waiting Times
  • Erros
  • Completed Actions
  7. Finalise
  • Finalise Layout
  • Use of image and icons
  • Font Colours & Hierarchy
  8. Delight
  • Micro copy
  • Micro interactions
  • Transitions
  9. Analyse
  • KPI Setup
  • AB Test Plan
  • Test

Ethics

• Time well spent
• Dark patterns.org

#Other Software / Tools / Resources

• Pixlr

• Uxdesign

• Now

• Do

• Sketch

• Ninja mock

• App landing examples 2015

• Iphone Vectors

• Place it: Iphone Vectors, Mockups, and Video

• Magic Mockups

• PicApp

• MockDrop

• Smart mockups

• Isweet it mockups

• design collection and insiprations

• best ux designer tools and resources collection

• the only ux reading list ever

• Top 10 UI Design Resources

Hidden Gems

• Greensock

Boiler Plate

• App Landing Page

Tutorials

• 7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI (Part 2)
• 7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI (Part 1)
• Ensure High Contrast for Text Over Images

#Jobs

• Dribbble Jobs