As Spiralytics’ web designer, part of my job is to never run out of inspiration and get those creative juices actively flowing. And when you’re designing on a daily basis with deadlines to meet, you need to kick designer’s block to the curb. Luckily for designers like me, the Internet offers not just unlimited cat videos, there are also a ton of websites for designers that can refuel my design inspiration tank when I’m in dire need.
I’ll be sharing my 25 useful websites for designers so that you will never run out of new creative ideas and get your designing mojo back. The list includes fresh, amazing, and very useful must-bookmark websites for this year.
Best Websites for Designers
A pocket guide to master every day’s typographic adventures. This little guide is prepared by Benedikt Lehnert. He made this for everyone who just want to do things right. It is a great resource which explains the basics of typography. And even if you find yourself experienced in typography, I’m pretty sure you’ll still learn something cool and new from here.
A competitively-priced, minimalistic design software that adds a bit of spark to your marketing and puts the flare in your social media. You can sign up to one of our three amazing and affordable price plans to create personalized, professional standard images in minutes. Additionally, you get access to a huge library of high quality images and videos.
Lets you create, design, and share your own color palette. You can also browse thousands of themes here. This website can help you decide what colors to use on the design.
A simple tool that helps web designers find variations of any color. This website is perfect for hovers, borders, gradients and many more.
How to use this:
1. Pick the color that you want to start with
2. 0 to 255 will generate the range of colors
3. Click the color of your choice (it will then be copied to your clipboard, isn’t it amazing? lol)
Get started now!
This is one of the leading online platforms for people to share and showcase their creative work. It works much like a social media network, where users can engage with and follow other accounts.
Social media magazine covering the latest in business, marketing, tech and design
A great blog for getting ideas and inspiration for your next creative project. They also offer a few handy tools to help you along the way.
Blog for people who care for design. This blog contains the author designers’ personal experiences and knowledge in design. Don’t forget to subscribe to their blog to get the latest updates.
It includes latest Web Design inspirations, ideas, tips and freebies. It allows you to search for the specific industry, type, color or feel that you want.
Your daily dose of information about html, css, js, php, ruby, mobile, ux and design. Perfect for all developers, designers, programmers, freelancers, and site owner.
Your source for personal and commercial projects.
Premium quality design resources offered for free.
Collection of free design resources created by Orman Clark.
A great selection of high quality stock photos, vectors, and PSD mockups. The free gallery is totally free for personal or commercial use.
A huge archive of free, downloadable fonts. This is a go-to resource, so if you know what you’re looking for, you’ll probably find it here.
A public archive of typography. It’s an awesome site wherein you can choose a typeface and check how it is used. You can also contribute by creating an account.
Allows you to enter text and then be able to compare with hundreds of fonts. Because font choice and combination is serious business.
Your weekly source for free fonts.
An online magazine that covers the intersection of technology, science, art, and culture.
Great resource of informative material for designers and web developers.
Talks about Digital Media, Marketing and Advertising. Thanks to my super cool boss for introducing this site to me! (Hi, Jimmy)
Source for all things fitness, health and happiness.
Your online news. They report the most important and relevant topics all over the web. They cover topics for entertainment, news, lifestyle, sports, fandom, business, crime and opinion. And oh, they also have a comic section!
Your leading source for news, information, and resources. Mashable is the largest independent online news with now 34M unique visitors and 14M social media followers. My favorite page here is the Dev and Design section where they give awesome resources for us designers.
From content marketing, blogging, SEO, analytics, to graphic design (represent!), our company website and blog is a great resource for tips and how-to’s on setting up, managing, and marketing business websites, eCommerce sites, and blogs
Do you also have your own list of best sites for designers? Share them in the comments!
