Lack of inspiration? Can’t make a good design? Best UX Resources for inspiration must check

Bryan Li
5 min readMay 15, 2021

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For UX/UI design, these websites have a wealth of design works that can cultivate your beauty and help you bring you some inspiration when you have no ideas.

For those who want to learn by themselves, looking at other people’s good works will also give you a higher design sensitivity.

What is UX/UI Design?

What is UX design?

An abbreviation of “user experience design” — involves the interaction between users and a product or service, usually (but not always) in the digital space. In other words, UX design is the craft of making the user’s experience when interacting with a digital product as effective, efficient, and pleasant as possible: the process of building products with the user in mind (BrainStation).

“User experience encompasses all aspects of the end-user’s interaction with the company, its services, and its products.”
— Don Norman, Cognitive Scientist & User Experience Architect

What is UI (User Interface Design)?

The user interface is the graphical layout of an application. It consists of the buttons users click on, the text they read, the images, sliders, text entry fields, and all the rest of the items the user interacts with. This includes screen layout, transitions, interface animations and every single micro-interaction.

The difference between UX and UI

Mobile inspiration

  1. Up Lab
  2. Mobbin
  3. Mobile Patterns

Design system inspiration — Icon

Monochrome Icon

  1. Icooon Mono

2. Icon-rainbow

3. Noun Project

4. Standart.io

5. LINE Illustration labo

Color Icon

  1. Town-illust

2. Dachoju-Giga

3. Stampo

4. Humaaans

5. Open Doodles

6. unDraw

7. manypixels

8. Blush

9. Flat icon

10. Control

Comprehensive Icon

  1. icon8

2. ICONFINDER

3. FLATICON

4. freepik

Design system inspiration — Colors

— 2 Color

  1. Color Claim

2. Hello Color

— 4 Color

  1. Color Hunt

2. ColorDrop

3. LOL Colors

— 5 Color

  1. Culrs

2. coolors

3. Colormind

4. COLOURlovers

— 6 Color

  1. Design Seeds

— Search color by theme

  1. Picular

2. Adobe Color Explore

3. COLOR LEAP (Match colors with paintings from different eras)

4. Color Lisa (Color palette masterpieces from the world’s greatest artists)

— Color for Web Design

  1. Happy Hues

2. Stylify Me (Search color palette by site URL)

Find UX Articles

  1. Nielsen Norman Group -A leading voice in the user experience field.
  2. UX Magazine- A central, one-stop resource for everything related to user experience
  3. UXDesign.cc-This incredibly useful site has a collection of links, blogs, books, methods, events and tools to keep updated about what’s happening in User Experience Design.

Do you know of any others we’ve missed? Let us know in the comments!

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Bryan Li

A UX Designer with 3 years working in the B2C industry. I’m passionate about using design to empower others. https://bryanli.ca/