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Tiny Words Matter
A curated dose of ✍️ microcopy. Because tiny words matter!
Flowstate
Flowstate is a library of walkthrough teardowns & design patterns from the digital products all around us. Explore trends and gain insights from the industry as a whole.
VS Code
Visual Studio Code is a code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications.
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Blender 2D/3D for beginners, drawing and animating with greasepencil - Part 2/2
Part 2/2 of the series on how to use Blender to draw and animate with grease pencil.
Blender 2D/3D for beginners, drawing and animating with greasepencil (blender 2.8) - Part 1/2
A step-by-step tutorial on how to use the 2D/3D drawing tools in Blender 2.8.
Ducky 3D
Hi my name is Nathan Duck, i'm a graphic designer and amateur 3D artist. I make Tutorials for beginners. My videos are mainly focused on the abstract and ways to make things visually intriguing
AmbientCG
Free materials never looked this good! Get 1000+ PBR materials and textures for free under the Public Domain license.
Blender 3.0 Beginner Donut Tutorial
Learn the basics of Blender while making your very own donut! You'll learn the UI, modelling, sculpting, texturing, shading, geometry nodes, lighting, rendering, compositing and compiling a final animation.
Poly Haven
Poly Haven is a curated public asset library for visual effects artists and game designers, providing useful high quality 3D assets in an easily obtainable manner.
A11Y Project
The A11Y Project is a community-driven effort to make digital accessibility easier.
Accessibility Developer Guide
If you want to learn more about designing and implementing fully accessible websites, you've come to the right place.
axe DevTools
Find and fix accessibility issues on your website by using the axe DevTools Chrome extension.
Accessibility for Teams
Remember, accessibility is a team effort. Every person has a role to play. This article outlines criteria for each of the major disciplines (project manager, UX designer, and developer) so that they can work to incorporate accessibility best practices into their process.
IBM Equal Access Accessibility Checker
The IBM Equal Access Accessibility Checker is an open source tool for auditing your sites accessibility against IBM's accessibility rule engine.
Disabled Buttons Suck
Showing buttons as disabled until a form is complete might seem like a good idea. It is not. They usually create a lousy user experience and exclude many people with disabilities. Here’s why disabled buttons suck and what to do instead.
Hocus :Focus
A keyboard navigation horror game. Find the 🎃 pumpkin.
Stark Library
The Stark Public Library is a collection of resources around a11y, articles, books, checklists and more
Vox Media Accessibility Guidelines
Making work accessible creates a better experience across the board. Use this checklist to help build accessibility into your process no matter your role or stage in a project.
The right tag for the job: why you should use semantic HTML
Whether you write plain old HTML, HTML templating or JSX, are you using the right HTML tags? A guide to semantic HTML: what it is, why it's so important, and how to use it
Stark
The suite of integrated accessibility compliance tools for software teams.
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
WCAG is developed through the W3C process in cooperation with a goal of providing a single shared standard that meets the needs of individuals, organizations, and governments internationally.
We Are Colorblind
Making the world a better place for the colorblind
Art of the Title
Art of the Title is the definitive industry publication for title sequence design and an educational resource, spanning the film, television, conference, and video game industries.
CMYK
A story about 3 ways to mix process colors.
Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera
Walt Disney explains his invention. Probably the most advanced tool ever made in the field of animation. (At least until the computer was made.)
Blender 2D/3D for beginners, drawing and animating with greasepencil - Part 2/2
Part 2/2 of the series on how to use Blender to draw and animate with grease pencil.
Blender 2D/3D for beginners, drawing and animating with greasepencil (blender 2.8) - Part 1/2
A step-by-step tutorial on how to use the 2D/3D drawing tools in Blender 2.8.
Everything Animated
A channel for admirers of animation. Just sit back, relax and enjoy the greatest animation talent out there carefully handpicked for you!
How Design Legend Saul Bass Changed Film and TV Forever
The designer of famed logos had a rich and important career in designing film titles, too.
Blender 3.0 Beginner Donut Tutorial
Learn the basics of Blender while making your very own donut! You'll learn the UI, modelling, sculpting, texturing, shading, geometry nodes, lighting, rendering, compositing and compiling a final animation.
Pixar's Software R&D Vimeo Channel
A collection of videos from Pixar's Software R&D group presenting their latest technologies
How open source software powers modern filmmaking
From editing to animation, open source is part of how movies get made.
Dimensions
Dimensions.com is an ongoing reference database of dimensioned drawings documenting the standard measurements and sizes of the everyday objects and spaces that make up our world.
Heatherwick Studio
A multi-award winning British design and architecture studio - buildings, spaces, master-plans, objects and infrastructure.
Poly Haven
Poly Haven is a curated public asset library for visual effects artists and game designers, providing useful high quality 3D assets in an easily obtainable manner.
The MIT Press Open Architecture and Urban Studies collection
MIT Press Open Architecture and Urban Studies is a robust digital collection of classic and previously out-of-print architecture and urban studies.
Visualizing Architecture
Visualizing Architecture explores the different graphics styling you may encounter in the industry.
Elements of AI
A free course covering the basics of artificial intelligence.
Machine Learning for Artists
ml4a is a collection of free educational resources devoted to machine learning for artists.
A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning
In machine learning, computers apply statistical learning techniques to automatically identify patterns in data. These techniques can be used to make highly accurate predictions.
Writing with the Machine
It’s like writing with a deranged but very well-read parrot on your shoulder.
Blender 2D/3D for beginners, drawing and animating with greasepencil - Part 2/2
Part 2/2 of the series on how to use Blender to draw and animate with grease pencil.
Blender 2D/3D for beginners, drawing and animating with greasepencil (blender 2.8) - Part 1/2
A step-by-step tutorial on how to use the 2D/3D drawing tools in Blender 2.8.
Ducky 3D
Hi my name is Nathan Duck, i'm a graphic designer and amateur 3D artist. I make Tutorials for beginners. My videos are mainly focused on the abstract and ways to make things visually intriguing
AmbientCG
Free materials never looked this good! Get 1000+ PBR materials and textures for free under the Public Domain license.
Blender 3.0 Beginner Donut Tutorial
Learn the basics of Blender while making your very own donut! You'll learn the UI, modelling, sculpting, texturing, shading, geometry nodes, lighting, rendering, compositing and compiling a final animation.
Poly Haven
Poly Haven is a curated public asset library for visual effects artists and game designers, providing useful high quality 3D assets in an easily obtainable manner.
A Lightweight Branding Exercise for Startups
A bottom-up, alignment-oriented approach
Responsive Logos
An exploration in scalable logo design.
Brand New
Opinions on corporate and brand identity work.
5 Principles for Better Designer-Developer Collaboration
In product design, the only certainty is change. Here are 5 timeless principles for improving designer-developer communication & collaboration.
Designer vs. Developer
Designer vs. Developer aims to provide take aways, solutions to workflows, tools & discussions on everyday struggles.
CMYK
A story about 3 ways to mix process colors.
How to use Colors in UI Design
Color is like everything else, it’s best used in moderation. You will tend to get better results if you stick to max three primary colors in your color scheme.
Grabients
Beautiful and simple UI for generating web gradients.
QULR.Life
Color, Colour, Colors, Colours No matter how you spell it they are beautiful.
We Are Colorblind
Making the world a better place for the colorblind
Observable's Highlights
Explore and visualize data. Share and publish your insights. Discover and be inspired.
Data Visualisation Catalogue
The Data Visualization Catalogue is a library of different information visualization types. The website serves as a learning and inspiration resource for those working with data visualization.
Derek Watkins
Derek is Graphics Editor at The New York Times, where I work as a designer, developer, reporter and geographer to visually present the news.
Feltron Annual Report
The tenth and final Feltron Annual Report examines the state of state of self-tracking through widely available apps and devices.
Flowing Data
FlowingData explores how we use analysis and visualization to understand data and ourselves.
The Functional Art
The Functional Art is an introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization, the communication of facts and data by means of charts, graphs, maps, and diagrams
Information is Beautiful
Data, information, knowledge: we distil it into beautiful, useful graphics & diagrams.
Watch how the measles outbreak spreads when kids get vaccinated – and when they don't
If you take 10 communities and run a simulation, it’s easy to see why we need as many members of the ‘herd’ as possible to get vaccines – before it’s too late
On Broadway
The interactive installation ON BROADWAY represents life in the 21st century city through a compilation of images and data collected along the 13 miles of Broadway that span Manhattan.
Pudding.Cool
We are a digital publication that explains ideas debated in culture with visual essays.
A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning
In machine learning, computers apply statistical learning techniques to automatically identify patterns in data. These techniques can be used to make highly accurate predictions.
Visualising Data
Data visualization and infographic design
WSJ Graphics
Recent interactives, data visualizations, illustrations, maps and other graphics from the The Wall Street Journal’s Graphics team
Adele
The repository of publicly available design systems and pattern libraries
Design System Repo
An collection of Design System examples, resources, tools, articles and videos.
Chicago Design System
The Chicago Design System is the public visual identity of the City of Chicago. It is an inclusive, equitable, cost saving system for City communication and for public use to show civic pride.
Design Systems
A Figma publication for design systems creators, designers, developers, and managers
Australian Government's Design System
The Australian Government Design System provides a framework and a set of tools to help designers and developers build government products and services more easily.
Design System Checklist
An open-source checklist to help you plan, build and grow your design system.
From Form Fields to Ship It: How Not to Design System
Building a design system is very trendy, but when is it the right time to conceptualize, design and execute on a system for use across a product and an organization. Given the context of both new products and legacy products in the same ecosystem, this talk will explore the lessons learned and some best strategies for building a design system.
Arc
Curve your text upward, downward or into a circle. Adjust the slider and preview the result.
Content Reel
Design layouts more efficiently by pulling text strings, images, and icons from one palette.
Google Sheets Sync
Sync content from Google Sheets directly into your Figma file.
Lineage
Visualize your component and style dependencies. Lineage helps you understand how your design system is being used and how every change impacts your project.
Lorem Ipsum
Generate ‘Lorem ipsum’ to fill your text layers with dummy text.
Map Maker
Map Maker allows you to make a customized map blazing fast.
Image Tracer
‘Image tracer’ traces black & white bitmap images, and turns them into a vector layer.
Mesh Gradients
Mesh Gradient generates a gradient image with an underlying 2d mesh, and lets you edit the vertices & edges of the mesh to get the perfect gradient look.
Figmotion
Figmotion is an animation tool built right in Figma. This makes the entry into animation easier and more convenient as there is no need to switch to a completely separate motion tool.
Remove.bg
Remove the background of images automatically with just a single click - using the remove.bg API.
Similayer
This plugin takes Figma’s in-built ‘Select all with...’ command to the next level. Select similar layers; based on a whole range of properties.
Unsplash
Insert beautiful images from Unsplash straight into your designs.
Abstract: The Art of Design
Step inside the minds of the most innovative designers in a variety of disciplines and learn how design impacts every aspect of life.
Art of the Title
Art of the Title is the definitive industry publication for title sequence design and an educational resource, spanning the film, television, conference, and video game industries.
Disney's Practical Guide to Path Tracing
Path tracing is a method for generating digital images by simulating how light would interact with objects in a virtual world.
Chicago Camps Recordings
Low-cost, high-value events serving the technology community.
David Dylan Thomas - Design for Cognitive Bias: Using Mental Shortcuts for Good Instead of Evil
Users’ minds take shortcuts to get through the day. Usually they’re harmless. Even helpful. But what happens when they’re not? In this talk I’ll use real-world examples to identify some particularly harmful biases that frequently lead users to make bad decisions. I’ll then talk about some content strategy and design choices we can use in our apps, designs, and platforms to redirect or eliminate the impact of those biases. Finally, I’ll explore our own biases as designers and some methods to prevent our own blind spots from hurting users.
Everything Animated
A channel for admirers of animation. Just sit back, relax and enjoy the greatest animation talent out there carefully handpicked for you!
The Infuriating Truth behind Elevator Buttons
The elevator buttons in our office building are slowly driving us all insane. We dropped everything to figure out what was going on and a little science happened along the way.
How Design Legend Saul Bass Changed Film and TV Forever
The designer of famed logos had a rich and important career in designing film titles, too.
How open source software powers modern filmmaking
From editing to animation, open source is part of how movies get made.
Mechanical Watch
Interactive article explaining how a mechanical watch works.
Typeset In The Future
Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies
The UX of Lego Interface Panels
Two studs wide and angled at 45°, the ubiquitous “2x2 decorated slope” is a LEGO minifigure’s interface to the world.
Can't Unsee
A game where you need to pick the design that is most correct. Test your attention to details!
HTML Spirograph
HTML Spirograph - creates awesome psychedelic drawings
Hocus :Focus
A keyboard navigation horror game. Find the 🎃 pumpkin.
Method of Action
Method of Action creates tools, toys and games to help you learn design, for free.
User Inyerface
User Inyerface - A worst-practice UI experiment
Avataaars
Create avatar illustrations in Sketch App with this free library. Combine clothes, hair, emotions, accessories, and colors.
Humaaans
A Mix-&-Match illustration library of humans
Open Doodles
A library of sketchy illustrations of people free for personal and commercial use.
Pose
A simple web app for character posing. Design a character exactly the way you want it and follow the easy guidelines to bring it to life using your favorite app.
The Patten Library
This on going project compiles patterns shared by the most talented designers out there for you to use freely in your designs.
unDraw
The design project with open-source illustrations for any idea you can imagine and create. Create beautiful websites, products and applications with your color, for free.
Control Panels
In praise of dials, toggles, buttons, and bulbs.
Lapa Ninja
Lapa Ninja is a gallery featuring the best 3154 landing page design inspiration, free books for designers and free UI kits from around the web.
On Broadway
The interactive installation ON BROADWAY represents life in the 21st century city through a compilation of images and data collected along the 13 miles of Broadway that span Manhattan.
uiwtf
uiwtf is an experimental laboratory of user interface patterns and interactions that make you think
Mobbin
Check out the hand-picked collection of latest mobile design patterns from apps that reflect the best in design.
The Importance of Play in Design Tools
While Ryan and I are working hard on Subform, I want to discuss something that one of our Kickstarter backers brought up: the importance of play.
Codrops
Codrops is a web design and development blog that publishes articles and tutorials about the latest web trends, techniques and new possibilities.
Page Flows
See how top brands design their onboarding, upgrading, downgrading and other key user flows
The People's Graphic Design Archive
A virtual archive built by everyone, about everyone, for everyone.
Really Good Emails
The web's best and most attractive, curated collection of emails, showing both design and code.
Refactoring UI
Learn how to design awesome UIs by yourself using specific tactics explained from a developer's point-of-view.
Screenlane
Get inspired and keep up with the latest web & mobile app UI design trends
Sidebar
The five best design links, every weekday.
The Patten Library
This on going project compiles patterns shared by the most talented designers out there for you to use freely in your designs.
Visualising Data
Data visualization and infographic design
Cartography Comparison: Google & Apple Maps
What are the biggest differences between Google Maps & Apple Maps? (2016)
Snazzy Maps
Snazzy Maps is a repository of different color schemes for Google Maps aimed towards web designers and developers.
Disney's Practical Guide to Path Tracing
Path tracing is a method for generating digital images by simulating how light would interact with objects in a virtual world.
Pexels
Free stock photos & videos you can use everywhere. Browse millions of high-quality royalty free stock images & copyright free pictures. No attribution required.
Tips for shooting aerial photos with your drone
Some great tips for getting your drone shots.
Unsplash
Beautiful, free images and photos that you can download and use for any project.
How being a developer makes me a better designer
Transcript of Rafa's talk, originally presented at MOBX conference in Berlin, titled 'How Being a Developer Makes Me a Better Designer'
Want To Design Great Digital Experiences? Start Working With Architects
Hans Neubert was chief creative officer at Frog and Huge. Here’s why he jumped ship for the largest architecture firm in the world.
Designer vs. Developer
Designer vs. Developer aims to provide take aways, solutions to workflows, tools & discussions on everyday struggles.
Aaron Irizarry Opening Keynote: Leading Successfully, By Leading Ourselves - UX Camp Fall 2020
Aaron Irizarry, aka “Ron,” is the Head of Credit Solutions Design in Capital One’s Commercial Bank. Aaron is also the co-author of Discussing Design: Improving Communication and Collaboration through Critique. More importantly, Aaron loves connecting with people through food, is a lover of heavy metal, and a lifelong Dodgers fan.
Abi Jones Keynote: How to Make the Right Turn - UX Camp Fall 2020
In this keynote, you’ll learn how to identify the work that fuels you, reflect on the principles that guide your preferences, consider the upsides of spite, and identify the people who will support you as you take the next step in your career.
Chicago Camps Recordings
Low-cost, high-value events serving the technology community.
David Dylan Thomas - Design for Cognitive Bias: Using Mental Shortcuts for Good Instead of Evil
Users’ minds take shortcuts to get through the day. Usually they’re harmless. Even helpful. But what happens when they’re not? In this talk I’ll use real-world examples to identify some particularly harmful biases that frequently lead users to make bad decisions. I’ll then talk about some content strategy and design choices we can use in our apps, designs, and platforms to redirect or eliminate the impact of those biases. Finally, I’ll explore our own biases as designers and some methods to prevent our own blind spots from hurting users.
BBC Global Experience Language
Welcome to BBC UX&D. We do the layer between people and technology. Every day, we focus on the stuff that makes things special, as well as the stuff that makes things happen.
DesignGold
A podcast about all things design and technology, how we can create better experiences and the pitfall of things not considered or overlooked.
There’s no such thing as “minor design changes”
Sharing a quick story I found on Intercom’s blog about how there’s no such thing as a small change in a product. “We want to limit the length of a review in the product to 140 characters, because we…
Success and Failure at Pebble
We launched Pebble on Kickstarter 10 years ago today! It was an amazing ride and I learned a lot from the experience. Story time!
Defining Design Generalists
Exploring the skill set of an underrated superpower
Mastery for Generalists
Becoming good when you're interested in everything.
Shape Up
This book is a guide to how we do product development at Basecamp. It’s also a toolbox full of techniques that you can apply in your own way to your own process.
Sketching Interfaces
The time required to test an idea should be zero. This was the very first sentence I wrote when considering the Airbnb design tools team vision.
Want a Better Pitch?
A good read to help position your next pitch for success.
A wish list of three for UI / UX for the casual user
Don't forget about designing for the some times users.
Your MVP is neither minimal, viable nor a product
MVP is such a profound misnomer; a good MVP is not viable, and it is certainly not a product. Chances are it isn't minimal either, come to think of it.
Paper at 10
How we designed the app that changed everything (for me)
Design Kit
Brought to you by IDEO.org Design Kit is hardly the only place to learn about the power of human-centered design. These books, guides, and free downloads are all great destinations to help you routinely innovate and solve big problems.
Laws of UX
Laws of UX is a collection of principles that designers can consider when building user interfaces.
10 Usability Heuristics
Jakob Nielsen's 10 general principles for interaction design. They are called "heuristics" because they are broad rules of thumb and not specific usability guidelines.
UXPin Books
Thoughtful content on mobile & web prototyping, wireframing, mockups, usability testing, project management, design process & more.
Bensound
Royalty free music
Success and Failure at Pebble
We launched Pebble on Kickstarter 10 years ago today! It was an amazing ride and I learned a lot from the experience. Story time!
Your MVP is neither minimal, viable nor a product
MVP is such a profound misnomer; a good MVP is not viable, and it is certainly not a product. Chances are it isn't minimal either, come to think of it.
axe DevTools
Find and fix accessibility issues on your website by using the axe DevTools Chrome extension.
Can I Use
'Can I use' provides up-to-date browser support tables for support of front-end web technologies on desktop and mobile web browsers.
CSS Gradient
A css gradient generator tool
Dimensions
Dimensions.com is an ongoing reference database of dimensioned drawings documenting the standard measurements and sizes of the everyday objects and spaces that make up our world.
GIF Brewery
Creating fine-crafted GIFs for Mac users worldwide.
IBM Equal Access Accessibility Checker
The IBM Equal Access Accessibility Checker is an open source tool for auditing your sites accessibility against IBM's accessibility rule engine.
Boring Avatars
Boring avatars is a tiny JavaScript React library that generates custom, SVG-based, round avatars from any username and color palette.
Goodbye John Doe
Peculiar names for the placeholder connoisseur. Placeholder name generator.
Box Shadow Generator
A WYSIWYG CSS box shadow generator
AmbientCG
Free materials never looked this good! Get 1000+ PBR materials and textures for free under the Public Domain license.
Data Visualisation Catalogue
The Data Visualization Catalogue is a library of different information visualization types. The website serves as a learning and inspiration resource for those working with data visualization.
Fonts Knowledge
Welcome to our library of original guides to the world of typography, which the Google Fonts team is producing in collaboration with typographic experts from around the world. Google Fonts Knowledge enables designers and developers of all skill sets to choose and use type with purpose.
Jeffsum
A little text placeholder generator of Jeff Goldblum awesomeness.
Lapa Ninja
Lapa Ninja is a gallery featuring the best 3154 landing page design inspiration, free books for designers and free UI kits from around the web.
Loopy
A tool for thinking in systems
Checklist Design
Checklist Design is a curated list of checklists ranging from website pages, to UI components, all the way to branding assets to help you make sure to cover the full needs of the design.
Noun Project
The most diverse collection of icons ever. Download SVG and PNG.
Responsively
Multi-panel responsive browser.
Poly Haven
Poly Haven is a curated public asset library for visual effects artists and game designers, providing useful high quality 3D assets in an easily obtainable manner.
Open Doodles
A library of sketchy illustrations of people free for personal and commercial use.
Pexels
Free stock photos & videos you can use everywhere. Browse millions of high-quality royalty free stock images & copyright free pictures. No attribution required.
Humane by Design
A resource that provides guidance for designing ethically humane digital products through patterns focused on user well-being.
Codepen
CodePen is a social development environment for front-end designers and developers. Build and deploy a website, show off your work, build test cases to learn and debug, and find inspiration.
Figma
Figma is a collaborative interface design tool. Design, prototype, and gather feedback all in one place.
ImageOptim
ImageOptim makes images load faster by removes bloated metadata and compressing images without losing quality.
Lorem Picsum
The Lorem Ipsum for photos
Retrobatch
Flexible, super charged, batch image processing for your Mac.
Sketch
Sketch is the all-in-one platform for digital design — with collaborative design tools, prototyping and developer handoff.
Snazzy Maps
Snazzy Maps is a repository of different color schemes for Google Maps aimed towards web designers and developers.
Stark
The suite of integrated accessibility compliance tools for software teams.
Subtle Patterns
A bunch of subtle patterns
The Patten Library
This on going project compiles patterns shared by the most talented designers out there for you to use freely in your designs.
Unsplash
Beautiful, free images and photos that you can download and use for any project.
Google Fonts
Making the web more beautiful, fast, and open through great typography
Fonts Knowledge
Welcome to our library of original guides to the world of typography, which the Google Fonts team is producing in collaboration with typographic experts from around the world. Google Fonts Knowledge enables designers and developers of all skill sets to choose and use type with purpose.
FontMap
Hundreds of fonts arranged using machine learning
Fonts in Use
A searchable archive of typographic design, indexed by typeface, format, and topic.
League of Moveable Type
The League of Moveable Type is the first open-source font foundry, dedicated to helping you level up as a designer.
Type Scale
Preview and choose the right type scale for your project. Experiment with font size, scale and different webfonts.
Space Type Generator
Playing with type in 3D space
Typography Cheatsheet
Everything you need to know about setting proper typography—smart quotes, apostrophes, em dashes, en dashes, accented characters and more.
Typeset In The Future
Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies
TypeTerms
Type Terms. The animated typographic cheat sheet.
Typographic Illusions
A collection of free tools for demonstrating typographic phenomena, for anyone teaching or studying typeface design.
Accessibility Developer Guide
If you want to learn more about designing and implementing fully accessible websites, you've come to the right place.
Can I Use
'Can I use' provides up-to-date browser support tables for support of front-end web technologies on desktop and mobile web browsers.
CSS Gradient
A css gradient generator tool
What Makes CSS Hard To Master
I feel we, the community, have to acknowledge that CSS is easy to get started with and hard to master. Let’s reflect on the language and find out what makes it hard.
CSS Reference
CSS Reference is a free visual guide to CSS. It features the most popular properties, and explains them with illustrated and animated examples.
DzgnIO Toolkit
A open set of web development resources to help you develop better and quicker with simple styling blocks.
Box Shadow Generator
A WYSIWYG CSS box shadow generator
Defensive CSS
Practical CSS and design tips that helps in building future-proof user interfaces.
Visualizing Git Concepts with D3
This website is designed to help you understand some basic git concepts visually.
MDN Web Docs
Mozilla's web dev documentation, learn how and when to use HTML and CSS appropriately
Responsively
Multi-panel responsive browser.
Codepen
CodePen is a social development environment for front-end designers and developers. Build and deploy a website, show off your work, build test cases to learn and debug, and find inspiration.
Codrops
Codrops is a web design and development blog that publishes articles and tutorials about the latest web trends, techniques and new possibilities.
CSS Vocabulary
Learn what all the parts of CSS are called
Understanding Z Index
A visual guide on how z-index and stacking contexts work in CSS.
Digging Into CSS Logical Properties
The support for CSS logical properties is getting better by time. However, I still struggle to memorize them each time I want to use them in a project. What does start mean? And what does end mean? It’s a bit tricky to grasp all the details without trial and error.
Design Vault
Browse a curated collection of mobile, web & desktop screenshots from the world’s best apps and websites. Gain insights, explore trends and understand competitors and best practices.
Flowstate
Flowstate is a library of walkthrough teardowns & design patterns from the digital products all around us. Explore trends and gain insights from the industry as a whole.
Mobbin
Check out the hand-picked collection of latest mobile design patterns from apps that reflect the best in design.
Page Flows
See how top brands design their onboarding, upgrading, downgrading and other key user flows
Screenlane
Get inspired and keep up with the latest web & mobile app UI design trends
User Onboarding
A bunch of walkthroughs of onboardings out in the wild, the good and the bad.
UX Archive
We lay out the most interesting user flows so you can build your point of view and be inspired to design the best user experiences.
UX writing: the definite guide for designing text in mobile apps
A must-have UX Writing resource: 40 rules for writing microcopy that looks stunning, from a UI design standpoint.
Tiny Words Matter
A curated dose of ✍️ microcopy. Because tiny words matter!