Curated resources for digital designers

Beacon
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Beacon

A website carbon calculator. Plug in a URL and it'll give you a breakdown of the estimated emissions for a single visit and return visits, and gives an monthly estimate based on your visitor numbers. A tool I hope to make more use of.

June 25, 2024

Lowww
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Lowww

Similar to Lowww Carbon, this is another lightweight, climate-friendly website showcase. They benchmark per-visit emissions against an average calculated from the HTTP archive. You can find out more about their method on the site. Another fantastic resource.

June 25, 2024

Lowwwcarbon
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Lowwwcarbon

A showcase of low carbon websites. Grades each site based on its carbon footprint, gives you an estimation of the emissions, and breaks down some case studies. Great resource!

June 25, 2024

Design Spells
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Design Spells

A new one on me, but it looks like a fantastic resource for microinteraction inspiration. Tagged and categorised for your convenience.

June 20, 2024

Land Book
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Land Book

A fantastic resource for web design inspiration. Free and paid tiers, allows you to search via many criteria, and even separates out the various component types. Couldn't do without it.

June 20, 2024

Interface Futures
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Interface Futures

Inspired by the amazing interface concepts on Design Twitter & elsewhere Interface Futures is an attempt to preserve, curate, and categorize these creative interface concepts for the whole community to get inspired from

June 18, 2024

Game UI Database
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Game UI Database

The Game UI Database was created by Edd Coates as a free resource for UI/UX Designers in the games industry. It was built to aid in the discovery of new inspiration, and to provide a fast and efficient way of searching for reference materials.

June 18, 2024

Design Systems
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Design Systems

A design systems publication by Figma with articles on best in class design, design systems basics and topics from their annual design systems conference.

June 18, 2024

Design Systems Repo
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Design Systems Repo

A comprehensive and curated list of design systems, style guides and pattern libraries that you can use for inspiration.

June 18, 2024

Magic Patterns
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Magic Patterns

Use AI to generate Figma and React components using prompts. Sounds crazy.

June 18, 2024

Interface In Game
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Interface In Game

Explore a collection of video games interfaces, screenshots, and clips. Take a look at all the fragments that make up a video game, and find inspiration for your designs.

June 18, 2024

Component Gallery
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Component Gallery

A reference for anyone building component-based user interfaces, The Component Gallery is an up-to-date repository of interface components based on examples from the world of design systems

June 18, 2024

Design System Database
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Design System Database

A database of best-in-class Design Systems, organized and sorted by components and directories.

June 18, 2024

POV Budapest
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POV Budapest

A great looking design festival in Budapest. Speakers include Buck, Porta Rocha and Pentagram

June 18, 2024

UI Colors
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UI Colors

A tool to generate UI colors on a scale based on a base color. Great for product design, and has a Figma plugin. Free and premium versions available.

July 13, 2023

ColorDesigner
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ColorDesigner

Comprehensive color tools platform. A little bit annoying with the ads etc, but quite a few interesting tools and a Figma plugin.

July 13, 2023

Gradientor
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Gradientor

Fun little gradient generator. Set the canvas size, download PNG, upload reference PNGs, draw weird images.

July 13, 2023

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