What are your favorite visual design inspiration sources?

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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:

Do you struggle with design too?

Nadine M. Thêry ・ Jul 12 '19

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

Top comments (27)

Ayman97 • Jul 12 '19

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.

Priyanka Kore • Jul 12 '19

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.

Abdul.js • Jul 12 '19

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

Yaser Al-Najjar • Jul 12 '19 • 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 😉

Jijin P 👨‍💻🦄 • Jul 12 '19

Dribble and uplabs.com/

😊

Anton Melnyk • Jul 13 '19 • 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).

Ben Overmyer • Jul 12 '19

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.

Florian Rand • Jul 12 '19 • Edited

This is going to be an unpopular opinion here, coming from a designer who already knows how trends works, but anyway I'm going to copy & paste part of my comment in Nadine's post:

A really good source of inspiration, that very few people think about are designs systems. AirBnB, Google Material, Atlassian, IBM, Spotify, {...}, you name it, already solved a huge amount of problems related to design, and the best part is that you have access to them! they are waiting for you to "hack them".

There is a book that I always recommend, A Primer of Visual Literacy, by Donis A. Dondis (La sintaxis de la imagen, in Spanish). The book is not the best about visual language, but is very easy to follow, and a really good introduction. Obviously there are books a lot better in that precise matter, but this one is a must-read for anyone doing anything visual. Trust me on this, there will be a before and after if you read and understand how human perception works, that would help you a lot in terms to take those decisions about colors, composition, and a lot more things that you probably never thought that matters in visual design.