I’m not a designer, so I find it useful to take inspiration from others when building software.
Illustrations
- Ira Design for illustrations
- unDraw - A great collection of open-source illustrations with customisable colour schemes.
Iconography
- 3dicons - Open source 3D icon library
- Boring Avatars - User avatar generation
Typeface
- National Park Typeface - Typeface inspired by National Parks Service
- Recursive - Flexible typeface (I use this on this website)
Imagery
- Nordic Wallpapers - small collection of wallpapers for use with a Nordic theme
Colour and pattern
- Egg Gradients - A collection of nicely designed (and well-named) colour gradients for use in projects.
- Happy Hues - A collection of colour schemes, shown in context in mock interfaces.
- Pattern.css - CSS library for applying patterns to websites/apps.
Inspiration and building blocks
- Openby.design - UI design resources and inspiration
- Rareblocks - Front-end building blocks for web2 & web3
- Vanta.js - Animated website backgrounds in a few lines of code
Design tools and collections
- Spark Joy - Design tools and tips for developers in a hurry