69 resources · 12 categories
Resources
The sites I actually open while working — inspiration, icons, type, colour, motion and the tools in between. Checked and kept short on purpose.
Inspiration
5Mobbin
Screens from real apps, searchable by flow — sign-up, checkout, onboarding.
Freemiummobbin.comopens in a new tabRefero
Web app screens filtered by component, page type and industry.
Freemiumrefero.designopens in a new tabAwwwards
Ambitious web design. Not for everyday work — for seeing where the edge is.
Freeawwwards.comopens in a new tabGodly
A tight, curated list of modern sites — no noise.
Freegodly.websiteopens in a new tabLand-book
A landing page gallery — handy for studying structure and block order.
Freemiumland-book.comopens in a new tab
UI kits & Figma
5Untitled UI
A large Figma UI kit and design system — so you don't start from zero.
Freemiumuntitledui.comopens in a new tabFigma Community
Free UI kits, templates and files — usually where the thing you need already exists.
Freefigma.comopens in a new tabshadcn/ui
React component code you copy into the project — not a dependency.
Freeui.shadcn.comopens in a new tabTailwind Plus
Ready-made blocks from the Tailwind authors — landing, app screens, commerce.
Paidtailwindui.comopens in a new tabRelume
Build a sitemap and wireframes fast, then push them to Figma or Webflow.
Paidrelume.ioopens in a new tab
Design systems
5Material Design 3
Google's system — sizing, states and motion rules, especially for Android.
Freem3.material.ioopens in a new tabApple HIG
Apple's official guidance for iOS and macOS — where I check platform conventions.
Freedeveloper.apple.comopens in a new tabShopify Polaris
A strong reference for admin UI — tables, forms, empty states, messaging.
Freepolaris.shopify.comopens in a new tabIBM Carbon
An open enterprise system — a model for documenting tokens and grids.
Freecarbondesignsystem.comopens in a new tabAtlassian Design System
Component rules written out in plain words — including when not to use them.
Freeatlassian.designopens in a new tab
Icons
7Lucide
A clean open line set, 1500+ icons, with packages for React and friends.
Freelucide.devopens in a new tabPhosphor Icons
Six weights in one family — light and bold from the same set. This site uses it.
Freephosphoricons.comopens in a new tabHeroicons
A small, careful set from the Tailwind team — two sizes, two styles.
Freeheroicons.comopens in a new tabTabler Icons
5000+ icons — when you need an unusual symbol, it's usually here.
Freetabler.ioopens in a new tabIconify
Hundreds of sets behind one search, telling you which set each icon is from.
Freeiconify.designopens in a new tabSimple Icons
Brand logos as SVG with their official colour — for tech stack rows.
Freesimpleicons.orgopens in a new tabRemix Icon
Matched line and fill pairs — handy for active states.
Freeremixicon.comopens in a new tab
Typefaces
5Google Fonts
Free typefaces — where I check Cyrillic and Uzbek character support.
Freefonts.google.comopens in a new tabFontshare
Free-for-commercial typefaces from Indian Type Foundry — with real character.
Freefontshare.comopens in a new tabFontsource
Self-host fonts via npm — no third-party requests, no tracking.
Freefontsource.orgopens in a new tabTypewolf
Shows which type pairings real sites are actually using.
Freetypewolf.comopens in a new tabModern Font Stacks
System font stacks that load nothing — the fastest option there is.
Freemodernfontstacks.comopens in a new tab
Colour
6Realtime Colors
Try a palette on a real page mock-up instead of swatches.
Freerealtimecolors.comopens in a new tabCoolors
A palette generator — lock one colour and cycle the rest.
Freemiumcoolors.coopens in a new tabHappy Hues
Each palette tells you which colour goes where — background, text, button.
Freehappyhues.coopens in a new tabOpen Color
An open UI colour set — ten steps per hue with even lightness.
Freeyeun.github.ioopens in a new tabWebAIM Contrast Checker
Whether text and background clear WCAG contrast — answered in a second.
Freewebaim.orgopens in a new tabUI Colors
Turns one colour into a full Tailwind scale (50–950).
Freeuicolors.appopens in a new tab
Photos, illustration, 3D
6Unsplash
High-quality free photography, usable in commercial work.
Freeunsplash.comopens in a new tabPexels
Photos and short video — what Unsplash lacks is often here.
Freepexels.comopens in a new tabunDraw
Illustrations whose accent colour you set before downloading.
Freeundraw.coopens in a new tabStoryset
Editable illustrations that also export animated.
Freestoryset.comopens in a new tabSpline
Build a 3D scene in the browser and embed it straight into a page.
Freemiumspline.designopens in a new tabHaikei
SVG backgrounds — waves, blobs, grids; tiny files.
Freeapp.haikei.appopens in a new tab
Mockups
5Shots.so
Turns a screenshot into a presentable shot in seconds.
Freemiumshots.soopens in a new tabMockuuups Studio
A catalogue of device and scene mock-ups, with a Figma plugin.
Freemiummockuuups.studioopens in a new tabRotato
3D device mock-ups and video from them — for product pages.
Paidrotato.appopens in a new tabArtboard Studio
A browser scene editor — compose the mock-up, light and shadow yourself.
Freemiumartboard.studioopens in a new tabScreely
Wraps a screenshot in a browser window and background — the fastest option.
Freescreely.comopens in a new tab
Motion
6LottieFiles
Lightweight JSON animations for web and mobile — instead of video.
Freemiumlottiefiles.comopens in a new tabRive
Interactive animation with states — it reacts to hover and clicks.
Freemiumrive.appopens in a new tabGSAP
The library for complex timelines and scroll-driven animation.
Freegsap.comopens in a new tabMotion
Animation for React (formerly Framer Motion) — used on this site too.
Freemotion.devopens in a new tabEasings.net
Easing curves you can watch, then copy the one you want.
Freeeasings.netopens in a new tabcubic-bezier.com
Draw your own curve and compare it side by side with the old one.
Freecubic-bezier.comopens in a new tab
Learning
6Laws of UX
The psychology behind design decisions — short, with examples.
Freelawsofux.comopens in a new tabRefactoring UI
A practical design book for developers — techniques, not theory.
Paidrefactoringui.comopens in a new tabNielsen Norman Group
User research and UX articles — measurements, not opinions.
Freenngroup.comopens in a new tabweb.dev
Google's guidance on speed, Core Web Vitals and accessibility.
Freeweb.devopens in a new tabMDN Web Docs
The reference for CSS and HTML — where I check how a property actually behaves.
Freedeveloper.mozilla.orgopens in a new tabGrowth.Design
UX teardowns of well-known products, told as comics — easy to read.
Freegrowth.designopens in a new tab
Figma plugins
7Iconify
Brings hundreds of icon sets into Figma — search and drop in.
Freefigma.comopens in a new tabUnsplash
Drops real photography into the mock-up instead of a grey box.
Freefigma.comopens in a new tabContent Reel
Names, addresses, avatars — fills the mock-up with believable data.
Freefigma.comopens in a new tabAutoflow
Draws flow arrows between screens — for user flows.
Freemiumfigma.comopens in a new tabRemove BG
Removes an image background without leaving Figma.
Paidfigma.comopens in a new tabhtml.to.design
Turns a live site into Figma layers — a starting point for a redesign.
Freemiumfigma.comopens in a new tabFigma to Code
Gives Tailwind or HTML from a layer — a draft, not finished code.
Freefigma.comopens in a new tab
Tools
6Eagle
A reference and image library — searchable by tag and by colour.
Paideagle.coolopens in a new tabSquoosh
Compresses images in the browser with a side-by-side diff — nothing is uploaded.
Freesquoosh.appopens in a new tabTinyPNG
Quick PNG and JPG compression, several files at a time.
Freetinypng.comopens in a new tabExcalidraw
Hand-drawn-looking diagrams — for explaining structure fast.
Freeexcalidraw.comopens in a new tabremove.bg
One-click background removal that even handles hair well.
Freemiumremove.bgopens in a new tabCleanup.pictures
Erases unwanted objects — brush over them and the gap is filled in.
Freemiumcleanup.picturesopens in a new tab