Armand JayFounder at Artwxrk.com & Student at CSU
What's the best source for design inspiration?
Preferably some lesser known websites!
Your recommendation
22 recommended
- I love Dribbble, its real fun and the graphics are amazing and great to discover talent. However, Dribbble isn't really about real design, but more so about graphic arts. The issue these days is that people confuse the pretty visual layer part with what design actually is as a whole. Design is most importantly about designing systems, structures, processes, etc. You won't find that on Dribbble. Once again, design is much more than picture perfect motion graphics, logos, etc or how things look...design is most importantly about how things work. :)Dribbble is THE place for design inspiration. Warning, it's easy to become addicted.Kesava Mandiga14Curious cat. Writer. Explorer. · WrittenDribble is amazing but I like the curated selection from Muzli better. :)
- Emily Hodgins7Operations @ Product Hunt · WrittenCheck out Muzli for a lovely variety of design inspiration. Their Medium page is also a good one to follow.Kesava Mandiga14Curious cat. Writer. Explorer. · WrittenNicely curated selection. Their Medium page is an even better read!
- Ahmet SülekFounder @ usepanda.com · WrittenAhmet Sülek made this productI'm daily curating and categorizing from Dribbble popular shots. Now over 8000 designs saved in 147 categories.
- William ChannerCo-founder of Panda · WrittenWilliam Channer made this productBrings everything into one place so you don't miss out on the good stuff.
- Pierre LeBauxkoloseo.cz
Guys, if you can't straight up tell me what is premium going to set me back, you don't deserve the money. Practice of hiding pricing tables is coming back to trend as some new f**cking growthacking strategy and I hate it. It took one generation to convince businesses to be upfront and transparent about pricing. I can only assume why you did it this way, but it is a huge turn off. Maybe only for me, but I suspect there are dozens of us. DOZENS!
- Ciocanel RazvanCo-Founder of EpicCoders · WrittenCiocanel Razvan made this productWe use this website to promote our products and other cool design resources from the web. 90% of the items are free :)
- Viktoria PerminovaUX, Product Designer at botmakers.net · WrittenGreate place to find inspiration and explore talent portfoliosNicolas Le RouxGrowth Marketer · WrittenI also really like Behance as you can explore different processes of creation.
- Justin McKissickDesign student @UW · WrittenA ton of case studies are cross-posted from Behance, Dribbble, and other sites. Pinterest has superior search to these sites, so while if you know what inspiration you are looking for (branding, UI, etc.) It's great. Not so great on giving original credit to the designers though.
- Mammad EminProduct Designer · WrittenMammad Emin made this productRepick has great blog for design inspiration blog.repick.co :)
- Johannes KlingebielInnovation @ Süddeutsche Zeitung · WrittenBig fan of designsperation, especially for more random searches.
- Marlon WayneFounder @ Impulse · WrittenI'm surprised no one has mentioned pttrns, yet. This website is incredible for mobile design as it can be sorted by OS, page type (e.g. onboarding, messaging), and even by device type (e.g. watch, tablet). The name pttrns is entirely appropriate, as you'll start to identify certain similarities across different camera designs, for instance, and have a better understanding for why certain elements are placed where they are. I use this a lot and it's worth subscribing for access to unlimited and the secret Slack.
- Sven van der ZeeFounder AcceptCrypto · WrittenI'm a user for while right now and I love the website. They also have a slack chat if you want feedback from other designers and developers.
- Shantanu RaghavProduct Guy @Mobiefit · WrittenIt has some best curated UI kits, wireframes & icon sets. Although its mostly paid, but is a great source of inspirations.
- Justin AnyanwuI love tech. I believe in humanity.
Love this platform. I don't have the design skills to bring my visions to life. But it definitely helps me give my ideas a good look.
- Dan KaplanI craft stories that break through. · WrittenIf the quality of a design is measured in its ability (or not) to reduce the friction required to achieve a desired result, then user onboarding experiences are a great place to find both positive and negative examples. While it's possible that many people who design for a living will reject this, I believe how well and simply the designed thing helps people achieve their desired ends is far more important than how good it looks. And Sam Hulick's User Onboarding has done a better job than I ever could making that concept concrete.
- Remy ALDASOROProduct Owner @HelloFresh - Berlin · WrittenGreat way to passively get inundated of great ideas or design creations :)
- Stefan Theofilos8Product Designer, Entrepreneur · WrittenIf you use Sketch, Sketch Repo is a great place to draw inspiration from
- Top 5 Interactive design newsletter is so cool :)
- Robert AniteiUser Interface Designer · WrittenRobert Anitei made this productGreat resources for inspiration and not only.
- Ali R. TariqProduct Designer, Axonify · WrittenI've recently become a fan of this site. It's only a few months old and it already has a ton of screens under a ton of categories.
- Kunal Bhatia50Co-founder & Design Lead @SlidesUp · WrittenAs much as I love inspiration sites for design, I got lost in them very quickly especially early in my career. I didn't accomplish much, and had hundreds of tabs open on my laptop. I'd recommend getting outside and searching for experiences that need help. A former Product Manager at Microsoft told me that she wanted to find a way to digitally distribute MS Office after going on vacation and seeing hundreds of boxes of her software stacked in a university bookstore. She would have never gotten the inspiration had she not left her desk! Go explore in real life!
