In any creative profession, there are moments when you feel like mediocrity. It’s like you’ve already thought of everything better and you’re not capable of anything else. We can please you – it’s temporary.
Some companies and websites often surprise us with their creativity. But where do they all get their inspiration and ideas? In this article, we will consider such resources.
1) Behance
Behance is the world’s largest online community where users share their work. The site presents various works, including works by graphic designers, illustrators, typographers, UX designers, web designers, photographers, etc.
2) Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine is one of the most popular and highly rated magazines in the field of web design and web development. The “user experience” category contains excellent articles on usability, information architecture, interaction design and other topics related to UX.
3) AWWWARDS
This resource gives awards for the best of the best sites for web design and development. It is a place where creative professionals from all over the world come to find inspiration, share knowledge and receive constructive criticism.
4) Uimovement
The main difference of this resource compared to others is that it is focused exclusively on the design of the user interface. Each design example in the catalog is marked in such a way that you can easily find any design element that interests you.
5) Dribbble
Dribbble is a community of designers where they showcase their work and get inspiration from each other. Designers use Dribbble to showcase their creativity and is also a good source of inspiration.
6) Designmodo
Designmodo is a great resource with information for designers and web developers. They also have a separate category for UX.
7) CssWinner
This site is somewhat similar to Awwwards. Here you can also see beautiful sites and their interesting implementation. A great resource for finding inspiration
8) Dishots
The Russian equivalent of Dribbble. The audience is not that big, but it’s always interesting to go and see what compatriots are doing.
9) Pinterest
This resource makes it possible to create collections of images on different topics and share them with other users. It is very convenient to collect references.
10) UI8.net
This is a market that contains UI kits, Icons, Fonts. It is not necessary to buy everything, you can only spy on a good implementation and implement it in your project
Conclusion
Designing a good web design is difficult even for the most experienced designer. There are many factors to consider. I hope that the resources mentioned in this article will help you get out of the dilemma of ideas and inspire you to create solutions that will be simple, intuitive, and understandable.