What's the best source for design inspiration?

Question

Preferably some lesser known websites!

JT Singh · Accepted Answer

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. :)

Ahmet Sülek · Answer

I'm daily curating and categorizing from Dribbble popular shots. Now over 8000 designs saved in 147 categories.

Ben Lang · Answer

Dribbble is THE place for design inspiration. Warning, it's easy to become addicted.

Mammad Emin · Answer

Repick has great blog for design inspiration blog.repick.co :)

Ciocanel Razvan · Answer

We use this website to promote our products and other cool design resources from the web. 90% of the items are free :)

Emily Snowdon (née Hodgins) · Answer

Check out Muzli for a lovely variety of design inspiration. Their Medium page is also a good one to follow.

Shyjal · Answer

Top 5 Interactive design newsletter is so cool :)

Kesava Mandiga · Answer

Dribble is amazing but I like the curated selection from Muzli better. :)

William Channer · Answer

Brings everything into one place so you don't miss out on the good stuff.

Ali R. Tariq · Answer

I'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.

Robert Anitei · Answer

Great resources for inspiration and not only.

Shantanu Raghav · Answer

It has some best curated UI kits, wireframes & icon sets. Although its mostly paid, but is a great source of inspirations.

Ramy · Answer

This is for specifically animated UI design inspiration - for those of you who care about UI design and aren't too concerned about logo design etc (I run this site btw!)

Justin McKissick · Answer

A 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.

Remy ALDASORO · Answer

Great way to passively get inundated of great ideas or design creations :)

Raymond Aditya Pradhana · Answer

Five a day is just nice :)

Michal Rutrich · Answer

Nice UX/UI, and the best content.

Stefan Theofilos · Answer

If you use Sketch, Sketch Repo is a great place to draw inspiration from

Sven van der Zee · Answer

I'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.

Ognjen Divljak · Answer

UpLabs is great!  :)

Kunal Bhatia · Answer

As 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!

Dan Kaplan · Answer

If 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.

Jerry Shan · Answer

Building up your own library of inspirations

Nicolas Le Roux · Answer

I also really like Behance as you can explore different processes of creation.

Viktoria Perminova · Answer

Greate place to find inspiration and explore talent portfolios

Sagi Shrieber · Answer

Love this blog by Floris Dekker :) Features just the right interactions that make an experience memorable and emotional

Marlon Wayne · Answer

I'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.

Johannes Klingebiel · Answer

Big fan of designsperation, especially for more random searches.

Kesava Mandiga · Answer

Nicely curated selection. Their Medium page is an even better read!