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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.
Born out of Salem, MA, Dribbble has grown to become a hub for designers to share their work, meet other designers, and get inspired.
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.
Once you've sketched up a series of screens, toss them into Invision to built a clickable, interactive prototype.
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.
Craft is a Sketch plugin that makes it stupidly easy to populate your designs with real content. No more lorem ipsum.
Color Hunt is Pinterest for colors. Scroll, scroll, scroll through four color combinations.
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 is the Sketch of animations. Drop objects in and quickly begin to experiment with animations.
Testmate is a tool that saves you and your team time by automating the logistics of user research interviews.
ProtoIO is a high-fidelity prototyping tool that allows you to create rich, animated, interactive prototypes.
Type Anything lets you fine tune your family of header styles, and then download the CSS to get your design live.
Sympli generates style guides, specs, and assets for design handoff and helps automate implementation for developers.
Lookback allows you to run user tests while remotely recording the screen, the user's face and voice, and their in-app interactions.
Lingo is like Dropbox for design teams. The MacOS app allows teams to easily store and share visuals.
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.
Usabili.me is a screensharing, note taking, and recording tool to help you run remote user research.
Pixate allows you to create high fidelity clickable prototypes to test app interactions and animations.
Little Big Details is a blog the highlights the small, often overlooked design elements that make up great digital experiences.
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.
Color Snapper is a MacOS app that allows you to quickly grab the hex code of a color you stumble upon.
FullStory lets you easily record, replay, search, and analyze each user's actual experience with your website.
UX Timeline is a time capsule for websites. Flip through and see how your favorite sites have evolved over time.
Cognitive Lode distills behavioural economics and consumer psychology research into small, bite-sized pieces.
Chindogu is a Japanese art of inventing objects that are offer an obvious benefit while simultaneously introducing more problems and social embarrassment.
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