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Take a tour of useful sites and tools to help you find and collect designs to inspire your own creativity.
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Collecting design inspiration
is a fun way to get fresh ideas.
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It also helps you stay current
with design trends and
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become aware of emerging design patterns.
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The goal is to collect designs that
spark your own creative ideas.
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Take care to ensure you don't
directly copy others' work.
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Awwwards is a website which recognizes and
promotes innovative web designs.
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If you're looking for general inspiration,
you can browse the award winners.
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Filter by Sites of the Day, Month or Year.
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On the website Summary page,
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you'll see a breakdown of how well
it scored in different categories.
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You can click Visit Website
to check it out firsthand.
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If you're looking for something specific,
check out the collections.
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There you'll find websites organized by
features and certain topics they excel in.
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Pinterest is a great tool for
collecting design inspiration.
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It's free to use, and
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you can find designs by searching
with a keyword, such as landing page.
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With seemingly endless content,
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known as pins, there's a constant
stream of images to choose from.
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You can save pins by creating a board,
which groups the pins together for
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easy reference.
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I save general UI design
inspiration to this board.
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For mobile design,
I save pins to another board.
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I also like to draw
inspiration from print design,
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which often has innovative layouts and
unique typography.
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I even have an entire
board of book designs.
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For color inspiration, I collect
photos of interesting color palettes.
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To find the color codes, I use an eye
dropper tool in a design program.
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I also have boards for
specific features and projects.
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For instance, here's a collection
of onboarding inspiration.
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Here's a board I created when I was
working on a redesign of a team page.
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Another tool is Dribbble,
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it's a popular site where designers post
their work and browse for inspiration.
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If you sign up for a free account,
you can browse and save posts to buckets.
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Buckets are similar to Pinterest boards.
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Here's my collection of
newsfeed inspiration.
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If you don't wanna use a tool,
you can simply save images to a folder on
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your computer or even create a physical
folder of magazine clippings.
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I encourage you to start
collecting inspiration now, so
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you have a resource to draw
from in your next project.
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