Useful resources, courses, tools and much more
01_Resources
Icons
- thenounproject — he main website for icons.
- flaticon.com — you may even find small illustrations. The pain perk - you can download icon source files and edit them as you want.
- material.io — icons in accordance with Google guides. Most suitable for websites and mobile applications.
- yadi.sk — icons collection for websites, social media and more (from Veronica Gushevataya and Alexandra Churzina).
- freepik.com — free resource with photos, vector images and icons.
- icons8.ru — free icons, photos, illustrations and music.
Fonts
- fonts.adobe.com — fonts you can use if you have Adobe toolset license.
- fontreach.com — cool collection of most popular fonts with their use cases for various websites.
- fonts.google.com — classic collection of free fonts.
- fontpair.co — font pairs.
- glyphy.io — go here to guillemet quotation marks and other symbols.
Palettes
- colorhunt.co — visit it if you create illustrations.
- uigradients.com — gradients.
- happyhues.co — color palettes with use cases.
- shapefactory.co — resource with cool color schemes, gradients that also allows to convert photo in duotone.
Free stocks
- 1M+ high-res images and videospexels.com — photo collection by talented creators.
- splashbase.co — small photo and footage collection.
- unsplash.com — many beautiful photos in various categories.
- lenagold.ru — old, but gold stock with isolated images.
- startupstockphotos.com — photos of start-upers.
- jaymantri.com — small collection of beautiful nature and urban photos.
- travelcoffeebook.com — small travel-photo collection.
- foodiesfeed.com — food photos.
- nos.twnsnd.co — retro b&w photos from archives.
- freepik.com — free resource with photos, vector images and icons.
- designerspics.com — photo collection divided in categories.
- jeshoots.com — small photo collection divided in categories.
- picjumbo.com — photos, backgrounds and wallpapers.
- gratisography.com — collection of funny creative photos.
- getrefe.com — small photo collection divided in categories.
- cupcake.nilssonlee.se — really small collection of beautiful photos, mostly - landscapes and food.
- stokpic.com — categorized photo stock, updated each 2 weeks.
- sitebuilderreport.com — 25k of photos.
- pixabay.com — 1M+ high-res images and videos.
- splitshire.com — small collection of inspirational photos.
- lifeofpix.com — small collection of high-res photo and video.
- isorepublic.com — photo and video divided in themed collections.
- mazwai.com — video stock with themed collections.
- everypixel.com — search for paid and free stocks.
- allthefreestock.com — search for free stocks.
- yadi.sk — small collection of footages downloaded from free stocks (from Veronica Gushevataya and Valeria Krakhmaleva).
Mockups
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- placeit.net — mockups.
- freebiesbug.com — templates and mockups.
- mousemade.cc — templates.
- imcreator.com — small collection of website templates.
- yadi.sk — collection of device mockups (from UPROCK studio).
02_courses
Education
- bangbangeducation.ru — online courses, designer talks, webinars.
- controforma.school — online courses and offline week-long campuses abroad.
- arzamas.academy — soft skills, courses for art history.
Motion
- videosmile.ru — plugins and VFX and motion design lessons.
- yadi.sk — great course with homework for After Effects (from Kanat)
Web design
- cloud.mail.ru — Maksim Shirko is hosting 5hr-long online «Tilda for designers - how to turn webpage kit into full commercial tool» crash course.
- youtube.com —Evgeny UPROCK with his video-lessons for Figma and Tilda.
- youtube.com — Yandex academy for designers.
Cinema 4D
- youtube.com — workshops (from Yudin Mikhail Andreevich).
03_Inspiration
04_web-services
- uplabs.co — gif-converter (optimizer, video-to-gif, gif-to-video, resize, crop and much more).
- iloveimg.com — optimizer for gif.
- letsenhance.io — neural net that boosts photo and graphics quality (5 free photos for each account).
- pixlr.com — Photoshop alternative.
- remove.bg — service that deletes background (free, but with quality restrictions).
- unscreen.com — another service that deletes background, some quality and video length (5 sec.)
- emojipedia.org — service you can use to get emojis.
05_telegram-channels
- @insta_upd_dnative — channel focused only on reviewing updates and new features of Instagram.
- @paradigm_graphics — about ads and graphic design in all of its aspects. Interesting agencies' and freelancer's cases from around the world, design contests and festivals results etc.
- @cyrillicdesign — pick cyrillic-websites with great UI/UX design.
- @dezzigners — useful tools for designers, articles and news.
- @HotDigital — the hottest digital-marketing cases.
- @designsniper — «seamless design dead on target».
- @Designdealer — web-design, interface and product digest.
- @cultofdetails —about great interface details.
- @figmaplugin — a lot of useful plugins for Figma.
- @newsrgb — various art.
- @typeschool — relevant posts about font design: typography, lettering, calligraphy. News, thoughts, events, inspiration.
- @designgest — channel about design, systematicity, methodology, principles.
- @interactivespec — examples of stories, special project, quizzes, games and other interactive content.