jamesdube / curated-design-tools

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

curated-design-tools

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

Stock Video

• Mixkit - HD videos for you to use, completely free of charge.