User Research
Cassette
Cassette is a digital logbook to help you "record, transcribe, and bookmark key moments in user interviews."
Optimal Workshop
Optimal Workshop offers a suite of UX tools that help improve your website navigation, define information architecture, understand first-clicks, run surveys and capture qualitative research.
Testmate
Testmate is a tool that saves you and your team time by automating the logistics of user research interviews.
Lookback
Lookback allows you to run user tests while remotely recording the screen, the user's face and voice, and their in-app interactions.
UX Check
UX Check is a Chrome extension that checks for elements on a website that break any of Jakob Nielson's Ten Heuristics.
TestingTime
TestingTime makes user tests easier to run by helping with recruitment, scheduling, payment, and more.
Usabili.me
Usabili.me is a screensharing, note taking, and recording tool to help you run remote user research.
Sprint
Sprint is a lightweight tool to help you get quick feedback on a new prototype, app, or website. Use code "SansFrancisco" for a free 10-person test ($250 value).
FullStory
FullStory lets you easily record, replay, search, and analyze each user's actual experience with your website.
Dovetail
Dovetail helps collect user insights by sending simple, contextual questions via SMS or email.
Ethnio
Ethnio intercepts users visiting your site or app and allows them to schedule an interview with you!
User Interviews
User Interviews helps you screen and recruit users for any sort of qualitative research exercise.
Narrative Clip
Narrative Clip is a small wearable camera that easily clips onto clothing; ideal for participants willing to log a day in their life.
Crowdtap
Crowdtap is a platform for consumers to share their ideas, opinions, and stories with the brands they love.
Typography
Google Fonts
Google Fonts is a safe bet when shopping for project fonts. Download font families to use in design files or grab scripts to toss into your code.
Font Squirrel
Font Squirrel offers a database of all the free fonts your little heart could possibly desire.
What the Font
What the Font helps you identify a mystery font by scanning a file that have so generously uploaded.
Type Anything
Type Anything lets you fine tune your family of header styles, and then download the CSS to get your design live.
Typecast
Typecast allows you to prototype site typography and then download the CSS to make it happen.
Fontface Ninja
Fontface Ninja is a browser extension that helps you identify fonts while browsing a website.
FontReach
After entering a font of your choice, FontReach scans the interwebz to show you sites that use that font. It's like the zoo for designers.
Fonts In Use
Fonts In Use is an archive showing how various fonts have been applied in a full variety of design applications.
Color Palette
Color Hunt
Color Hunt is Pinterest for colors. Scroll, scroll, scroll through four color combinations.
Adobe Kuler
Kuler is a compass for the color wheel. Use it to explore combinations of analogous, monochromatic, and all sorts of combinations.
Material Colors
If you subscribe to Google's Material Design methods, Material Colors offers quick access to color choices.
Color Snapper
Color Snapper is a MacOS app that allows you to quickly grab the hex code of a color you stumble upon.
Web Gradients
Web Gradients is a curated collection of color gradients with CSS3, Sketch, and PSD export options.
Colorable
Colorable is a quick tool to assess the accessibility of a color pair (background and text color).
HTML Color Codes
HTML Color Codes offers a color picker and simple tutorials to teach you the basics of color theory and css/scss.
Iconography
The Noun Project
The Noun Project is a massive searchable database of icons created by a community of designers. Pay for a membership or give credit to the designer.
Iconjar
Iconjar makes it easy to store, organize, and search through all of your icons. No more scanning through a wall of icons, row by row.
Symbolset
Symbolset offers several bundles of icons and a semantic Unicode approach to calling those symbols.
Font Awesome
Font Awesome is a collection of hundreds of icons that can be easily linked to in your CSS.
Stock Photos
Unsplash
Unsplash is a database of beautiful, high-res, free photos for creative use. No awkward office stock photos. Make sure you give credit to the photographer.
Death to the Stock Photo
Death to Stock is another reaction to trashditional stock photography. Join their mailing list to get new photos every month, or get a membership to access their full archives.
Diverse UI
Diverse UI is a stock photo collection that will help you represent a diverse group of people in your mockups.
Burst
Burst by Shopify is a collection of over 1000 stock images made free under the Creative Commons Zero license.
PicJumbo
PicJumbo offers free stock photos, as well as a premium membership to access a larger library.
Inspiration
Dribbble
Born out of Salem, MA, Dribbble has grown to become a hub for designers to share their work, meet other designers, and get inspired.
Behance
Behance is a great spot to build up and display a design portfolio and find inspiration from other designers.
User Onboarding
User Onboarding creates incredibly detailed walkthrough slideshows that show the onboarding flow of well-known web and mobile apps.
Panda
Panda is a new tab chrome extension to help you keep up to date with your favorite design and tech news sources.
Really Good Emails
Really Good Emails is a site dedicated to showcasing beautifully designed emails.
Mobile Patterns
Mobile Patterns is a catalog showing how well-known apps have tackled various UX flows and elements.
Little Big Details
Little Big Details is a blog the highlights the small, often overlooked design elements that make up great digital experiences.
UX Archive
UX archive is a catalog showing how well-known apps handle various design flows and elements.
Brutalist Websites
Brutalist Websites is a catalog of sites following brutalist principles, offering some anti-inspiration.
UX Timeline
UX Timeline is a time capsule for websites. Flip through and see how your favorite sites have evolved over time.
Cognitive Lode
Cognitive Lode distills behavioural economics and consumer psychology research into small, bite-sized pieces.
Chindogu
Chindogu is a Japanese art of inventing objects that are offer an obvious benefit while simultaneously introducing more problems and social embarrassment.
Instant Logo Search
Instant Logo Search lets you search for and download (png & svg) the logos of well-known brands.
LandingFolio
LandingFolio is a site dedicated to showcasing landing pages for websites in a range of categories.
Prototyping
Invision
Once you've sketched up a series of screens, toss them into Invision to built a clickable, interactive prototype.
Craft
Craft is a Sketch plugin that makes it stupidly easy to populate your designs with real content. No more lorem ipsum.
Mirror for Sketch
If you're designing mobile apps with Sketch, then Mirror is a must. It allows you to sync your design files right to your phone for live updates.
Principle
Principle is the Sketch of animations. Drop objects in and quickly begin to experiment with animations.
Marvel
Marvel is a lightweight tool to create designs, stitch together interactive prototypes, and get feedback from your co-conspirators.
Adobe Photoshop
Photoshop is a beast of a tool; you can use it to create just about any static image you can imagine.
ProtoIO
ProtoIO is a high-fidelity prototyping tool that allows you to create rich, animated, interactive prototypes.
Adobe Experience Design
Adobe Experience Design is used to mockup rough interfaces and interactive prototypes.
Adobe Illustrator
Illustrator is Adobe's specialty vector tool. Use it to create logos, icons, or complex illustrations.
Pixate
Pixate allows you to create high fidelity clickable prototypes to test app interactions and animations.
POP
POP allows you to take photos of physical sketches and turn them into rough interactive prototypes.
JustInMind
JustInMind is a Mac app used to create interactive wireframes for web and mobile experiences.
Quant-UX
Quant-UX is a prototyping tool that includes a suite of visual analytics to help you better understand how users use the prototypes.
Subform
Subform is a new interface design tool (currently on Kickstarter) with a focus on outsourcing the burden of responsive layouts and consistent styles to the software.
Prott
Prott allows you to create clickable prototypes out of simple wireframes and paper prototype photos.
Presentation
Mockuuups
Mockuuups is a marketplace for device images to present your web, mobile, or wearable designs.
Screenshot Builder
Screenshot Builder makes it easy to generate App Store screenshots in all device sizes.
Hero Patterns
Hero Patterns is a collection of repeatable SVG background patterns for you to use on your digital projects.
Collaboration
Zeplin
Zeplin allows designers to automatically create style guides and resources, making the transition to engineering easier.
Sympli
Sympli generates style guides, specs, and assets for design handoff and helps automate implementation for developers.
Lingo
Lingo is like Dropbox for design teams. The MacOS app allows teams to easily store and share visuals.
Avocode
Share Photoshop or Sketch designs with your team and convert them to code. On Mac, Windows and Linux.
Invision Tours
Add annotations to your designs to walk coworkers and clients through asynchronously.
Mural
Mural allows teams to remotely run brainstorms, organize their ideas, create mindmaps, and more.
Opentest
Opentest is a Chrome plugin that enables quick and easy screen, mic, and front-camera recordings.
Notion
Notion is a Mac app that helps teams organize docs, wikis, and tasks from various tools in one central place.
Fuse
Fuse helps transition designs to live applications with a visual coding tool that improves collaboration between designers and developers.
Inboard
Inboard is a Mac app that lets teams organize screenshots, images, and photos into a searchable scrapbook.
Canvas
Canvas is a WYSIWYG note editor that allows teams to share notes and spec out projects in real time.
Abstract
Abstract is a version control tool that integrates with Sketch to help design teams stay up to date with each other's work.