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30 Awesome places to find design inspiration

If I could give you one piece of advice about enhancing your creative process, it would be to never approach a new design project without researching for inspiration first!
It doesn't matter if you are a seasoned product designer or a non-creative person with zero experience designing products. The right dose of inspiration can help you be more productive, avoid creative blocks, and produce constant unique/fresh ideas for your projects.
I’m always on the lookout for places where I can find high-quality inspiration for my projects, and this collection includes an extensive list of sites I use to get ton of inspiration for absolutely anything. For example:

  • Landing Pages/Websites
  • Portfolios
  • eCommerce
  • Mobile apps
  • Web apps
  • Logo design
  • Email design
  • Visual design

30 Awesome places to find design inspiration:


Landing Pages/Websites:

SaaS Landing Page

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A curated gallery showcasing high-quality SaaS landing pages and websites. You can also filter the results by the technology, fonts, colors, and more.

Land-book

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On Land-book you'll find a wide range of design inspiration, from SaaS landing pages, agency websites, portfolios, to e-commerce stores.

Lapa

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Lapa Ninja is a gallery featuring a vast variety of landing page design inspiration, educational books, UI kits, freebies, and more.

Landingfolio

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A website gallery that offers landing page inspiration and resources. You can also filter the results by categories, such as SaaS, mobile apps, startups, and much more.

One Page Love

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One Page Love, specializes in one-page websites, landing pages, and templates. It's the best you can find in this specific niche.

Minimal Gallery

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Minimal Gallery is a web design gallery that combines a minimal design with a finely-honed selection of great websites and landing pages.


Portfolios:

Humans

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Humans is a hidden gem for finding portfolio-related inspiration. You can filter the results by profession (developers, designers, photographers, etc.), and even by colors.

Awwwards

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Awwwards is one of the best galleries on the internet to find inspirational design. It covers several categories, including a great selection of portfolios from top professionals and agencies.

Siteinspire

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Siteinspire showcases a huge selection of amazingly designed websites, including one of the best portfolio directories you can find on the internet.

Semplice Showcase

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The Semplice Showcase features the best portfolios built with Semplice (a portfolio system based on WordPress).


eCommerce:

Commerce Cream

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Commerce Cream features some of the best-looking eCommerce websites submitted by top design agencies. If you’re looking for some eCommerce inspiration, Commerce Cream is a great resource.

ecomm.design

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ecomm.design is a collection of top-notch eCommerce websites filterable by platforms (e.g., Shopify, Squarespace, etc.) and categories (e.g., fashion, accessories, etc.).

Shopify Themes

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Explore a wide range of beautifully designed themes created by top-notch designers and agencies. Find inspiration, discover styles, and start building your next store.


Mobile Apps:

UX Archive

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UXArchive is the leading destination to find design inspiration from the world’s top mobile apps.

Mobbin

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Mobbin is a hand-picked collection of the latest mobile design patterns from apps that reflect the best in design.

UI Garage

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UI Garage features the best mobile design inspiration sortable by platforms (iOS and Android), product categories, and design patterns.

Rowlab

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Rowlab displays a curated collection of great mobile apps sortable by patterns, categories, elements, and even interface colors.

Scrnshts

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Scrnshts is a hand-picked selection of the finest app store design screenshots created by top designers and illustrators.


Web Apps:

Screenlane

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Screenlane is a growing library of user flows and screenshots from popular web products. It's a great place to find real-world web app patterns and inspiration.

Webframe

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Webframe is massive library of 800+ screenshots to get inspiration from the internet's top web apps.

ReallyGoodUX

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ReallyGoodUX is an inspirational directory to find the best UX examples—including onboarding tours and walkthroughs, UX copywriting, signup flows, and more.


Logos:

Brand New

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Brand New features logos and brand designs of notable products, companies, services, and organizations across all industries and locations.

Font In Logo

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FontInLogo helps you search and find World Brands (and other) Logos with their font details.

Logopond

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Logopond is an inspirational site & showcase of identity work from designers of varying abilities all across the world.


Email Design:

Really Good Emails

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Really Good Emails aims to be the best showcase of email design and resources on the web.

Email Love

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Email Love is a brand new online resource curating the best email designs, templates, and tools.

Email Gallery

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Email Gallery helps designers and developers find inspiration in the collection of emails from various companies and individuals.


Visual Design:

Designspiration

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Designinspiration is an image & color search engine for creating mood boards and finding art, design, logos, photography, and app inspiration.

Baubauhaus

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Baubauhaus is a design blog made up of many images that represent design, illustration, photography, fashion, and art-related inspiration.

Inspirationgrid

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Inspiration Grid is an online magazine celebrating creative talent from around the world. It showcases daily awesome examples of design, art, illustration, typography, photography, architecture, and more.


Conclusion

Where do you get inspiration? Feel free to share your favorite sources of inspiration and we’ll add the best to the list.

Top comments (5)

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jean mi l'inspi

Really cool post, here a few you missed
nicelydone.club
uisources.com
maxibestof.one
land-book.com

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webgraphics8

Thanks alot for the post

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javedaslam

I have a website on Generate Press theme, I want to change the style of the home page. Can you help me finding a good home page for my website??

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manu

Whoa. these are so cool!

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🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳

Thanks for this post, I'm looking for this post