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What are your favorite visual design inspiration sources?

Webdesign or interface design in general, do you have any favorite places you go back to for help with this whole "make it look good" part of making things? (If you're tasked to do that)

I brought this up in another thread:

But felt like it's worth its own question. Feel free to drop a comment in Nadine's thread as well. 😄

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Ayman97

I generally use dribbble, and some specifc sites for UI/UX screenshots like these:
mobbin.design/
webframe.xyz/
collectui.com/

And lastly i also analyze some other relevant sites to learn from them.

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Priyanka Kore

I am not a designer. To get a perspective on how other people are solving a certain problem. I like to glance at dribble for inspiration. There's always something new and fascinating, that would inspire you.

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Abdul.js

It's so raw and brutalist. I love it.

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Yaser Al-Najjar • Edited

When tackling a specific problem, I generally use google images search to fill up my eyes with the "right" UI/UX.

But I'm sure our UI/UX experts @ayman97 at Coretabs Academy would have a better comment here 😉

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Jijin P 👨‍💻🦄

Dribble and uplabs.com/

😊

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Anton Melnyk • Edited

In Russia there is a great design studio artlebedev.ru, they are popular all over the world and won many awards.

They make websites, interfaces, logos, architect and industrial design and some really epic projects like this periodical table or Moscow metro map

Their design always inspires me and you can learn a lot from them (including website design).

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Ben Overmyer

I usually look for unusual/parallel inspiration. Like looking at magazine layouts for website design ideas, or at architectural design for print page layout ideas.

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Fernando Maia • Edited

Found Uibot recently and it seems to be interesting. It randomly generates really amazing UIs.

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Developer90210

I'm a bit late to this but my usual stops are the some of the bigger sites (BBC, Google etc) but also...

material.io/
dribbble.com/

and this one because it always makes me smile:
lingscars.com/

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Aadi Bajpai

I think if you're on the internet a lot, you end up absorbing different sorts of content and then you know what to use as inspiration when you want it. Eg. my website and my blog are inspired from pretty different places. The former can be compared to Google's Material Design while the latter looks straight out of a LaTeX theme.