Complete List of Design Resources

All resources are free and good for commercial use.

1. Unsplash — 1 million+ free images taken by photographers around the world.
2. Burst — Free images from Shopify
3. Landing Stock — Perfect images for landing pages
4. Pixabay — 1.8 million+ free stock images and videos.
5. Visual Hunt — 350 million + Creative Commons photos.
6. Pexels — Free stock photo and video library
7. Flikr — Search using creative commons mode
8. pixelmob — Search millions of royalty-free photos.
9. Stockio — Free stock images
10. BARNIMAGES — Free high-resolution images for everyone
11. Freeimages — 350,000+ free stock photos
12. Morguefile — Free photo archive
13. reshot — Uniquely free photos.
14. Google Images — Free photos in (settings -> advanced search -> usage rights)

1. Coverr — Beautiful free stock video footage.
2. mixkit — Free stock video clips, stock music, and Premiere Pro templates.
3. Pexels — Free stock videos shared by the community.
4. pixabay — Free stock videos shared by the community.
5. Videvo — Free stock video footage and more.

1. The Noun Project — Large selection of free black & white icons.
2. Flaticons — Huuuge selection of free icons.
3. feather icons — Clean selection of icons designed on a 24×24 grid.
4. icons8 —  Large selection of free icons that can be edited before downloading.
5. Ionicons — Beautifully crafted open source icons
6. iconscout —  Free library of icons sorted by categories.
7. icon store —  Free icon collections by first-class designers
8. Remix Icon — Open-source neutral-style system symbols
9. Ikonate — Fully customizable & accessible, well-optimized vector icons
10. Streamline Icons —  30,000 free icons
11. xicons —  New icon pack every 10 days.
12. Eva Icons —  480 open source icons.
13. Evericons — 460+ free icons.
14. Orion Icons — 6014 free vector icons
15. Tilda Icons — 47 icons pack themes for free
16. SVG Icons — Just copy and paste HTML code to use icon
17. Material UI —  Google Material UI icons. Downloadable
18. MAKI — Icon set made for map designers
19. Tabler Icons — 994 Fully customizable free SVG icons

1. freepik — Free vectors for personal and commercial use.
2. Vecteezy — High-quality vector graphics free for personal and commercial use.
3. flaticon — 3,041,000 free vector icons
4. vector.me — Free vectors and illustrations to download
5. vectorportal.com — Free vector images since 2005
6. Retro Vectors — Royalty free vintage vectors

Vector Editor

1. editor.method.ac — Free online vector editor

1. undraw.co — Open-source illustrations (SVGs, PNGs)
2. humaaans — Super popular illustrations of people
3. manypixels.co — Free illustrations in SVG & PNG. You can change the colours directly as well!
4. storyset — Free customizable illustrations with multiple styles
5. Icons8 — Free vector and 3D illustrations
6. DrawKit — Free weekly illustration packs 
7. freepik — Free vectors for personal and commercial use
8. Vecteezy — High-quality vector graphics free for personal and commercial use
9. Iconfinder — over 6 million free and premium icons and illustrations.

Free Font Downloads

1. Font Squirrel — 100% free fonts for commercial use.
2. dafont.com — Archive of freely downloadable fonts.
3. Google Fonts — Free and open source font catalogue.
4. 1001 Free Fonts — 47536 free fonts in 23710 families.
5. Abstract Fonts — Features more than 13500 free fonts.
6. The League of Moveable Type — The original, the first, the open-source font foundry.
7. Fonts Arena — Curated typography website with a focus on contemporary typography and high-quality free fonts.
8. Pinspiry — A collection of free fonts for download.
9. Inter Typeface — Inter is a typeface carefully crafted & designed for computer screens.
10. fontain — A font-collection.
11. BEfonts — Free Fonts for Creatives.
12. Use & Modify — Selection of beautiful, classy, punk, professional, incomplete, weird typefaces.

Typography Formatting Tools

1. Golden Ratio Type Calculator — Optimize font size, line height, and line width with golden ratios.
2. Modular Scale — Optimize font size with various ratios.
3. Grid Lover — Establish a typographic system with modular scale & vertical rhythm.

Font Pairing Tools

1. FontPair — Explore perfect Google Font pairings.
2. Canva Font Combinations — Find a font combination for your design needs.
3. Font Flame — Tinder for font pairings.
4. Font Generator — Creates unique font pairings from Google fonts.

Font Finders

1. WhatTheFont — Instant font identification powered by the world’s largest collection of fonts.
2. Font Identifier — Upload an image with type and we’ll identify the fonts that match.
3. WhatFontis.com — Upload an image with type and we’ll identify the fonts that match.
4. WhatFont — Chrome extension: The easiest way to identify fonts on web pages.
5. Font Ninja — Chrome extension: Identify any font from any website.
6. Fonts In Use — An independent archive of typography.

Sign Mockups

1. Free Creatives Mockups — Free 42+ PSD Shop Signage Mockups

Device Mockups

1. Mockuuups Studio — Instant mockup generator with over 600 scenes.
2. UI8 — Marketplace of 366 high-quality device mockups.
3. Rotato — Slick mockup movies and images. Just drag and drop.
4. Threed.io — In-browser, simple 3D realistic customizable iPhone mockup.
5. Angle — 1900 Vector and 3D device mockups for Sketch, Figma, and XD.
6. Cleanmock — Drag and drop clean mockup generator.
7. Qurb — Simple free iPhoneX mockup generator.

General Mockups

1. Mockupworld — All free mockups for everything
2. Mr. Mockup — Super high-quality mockup freebies.
3. Mockupfree — Free mockup design resources.
4. Unblast Mockups — Best free mockups to download.
5. Mockups Design — Free and easy premium mockups.
6. Anthony Boyd Graphics — Clean, minimal mockups for devices, packaging, signage, and more.
7. Business Cards — 50 free business card mockups.
8. Artboard Studio — Create mockups online. Free + premium items.
9. Placeit — Humongous collections of mockups. Free + premium items.

1. Transparent Textures — Collections of textures customizable by colour.
2. Subtle Patterns — Large collection of subtle patterns and textures.
3. Hero Patterns — Collection of repeatable SVG background patterns.
4. Mockuuups Studio — Instant mockup generator with over 600 scenes
5. Freepik — Free vector pattern backgrounds.

Lorem Ipsums

1. Meet the Ipsums — Collection of various types of text placeholders

Picture Placeholders

1. Lorem Picsum — Image placeholders
2. Random User Generator — Images of user profile headshots
3. Dummy Image Generator — Create placeholder images with stock images and text. Thanks Donna for recommending this one.

Design Brief Generators

1. Briefup — Mock Project Briefs
2. Briefz.biz — Spits out ideas for creative projects
3. goodbrief — Get a unique design brief

Shapes

1. Blobmaker.app — Blob Generator

1. Behance — Social media platform to showcase and discover creative work by Adobe.
2. dribbble — Go-to resource for discovering and connecting with designers and creative talent around the globe.
3. Pinterest — A visual discovery engine for finding ideas, style inspiration, and more.
4. Muzli 2 by InVision — Chrome Extension: The freshest links about design and interactive, from around the web.
5. Designspiration — Design inspiration gallery. Search concepts and colours.

1. Can’t Unsee — Select the design that is most correct.
2. Color.Method.ac — A colour matching game.
3. userinyerface — Why we need design…
4. Kern Type — A letter spacing game.
5. The Boolean Game — Union, Subtract, Intersect, Difference.
6. The Bezier Game — A game to help you master the pen tool.
7. Shape Type — A letter shaping game.
8. Hex Test — A Hex code colour matching game by Shape.
9. Figma Ninja — Learn the basics of Figma and its shortcuts
10. It’s Centred That — Test if you can determine if the dot is in the centre of the shape

Marketing Tools

1. Content Row — Generate click-bait headlines.

Writing Assitance

1. QuillBot — Automatically paraphrases your text
2. Thesaurus — Get synonyms
3. Grammarly — Grammar checking tool
   

Inspiration

1. Really Good Emails — The web’s best, and most attractive collection of email designs

Creative Design Podcasts

1. The Honest Designers Show — Honest, under the hood look at what it takes to flourish in a creative vocation.
2. Creative Pep Talk — Monologues and interviews with creative powerhouses.
3. 99% Invisible — The unnoticed architecture and design that shapes our world with Roman Mars.

Product Design (UI/UX) Podcasts

1. Better Product — Digital product insights from industry leaders.
2. Whiteboard.fm — Interview series where designers talk about how they got started and job experiences.
3. User Defenders — Industry-leading / celebrated UX podcast.

Business / Entrepreneurial Podcasts

1. HBR IdeaCast — Weekly podcast featuring the leading thinkers in business and management.
2. Naval — Podcast by AngelList founder about value creation, investing, and innovation.
3. How I built this — Stories behind some of the world’s best known companies with Guy Raz.

Youtube Channels

1. Flux — Personal vlog of Ran Segall, a designer and entrepreneur. Lots of design-related content, career advice, web design content, and more!
2. DesignCourse — In-depth design tool tutorials about graphic design, front-end development, UI/UX, and more!
3. Mizko — Designer and entrepreneur with experience working for many companies as an in-house designer, lead designer, freelancer, and owns his own agency!
4. femke.design — full-time product designer that has worked for Uber and Wealthsimple. Career advice videos, tutorials, and more!
5. chunbuns — full-time product designer based in SF. Product design career videos, day-in-the-life vlog videos, and more! 
6. AJ&Smart — product design and innovation studio from Berlin. New videos every week about product design, UX, and more!
7. Cuberto Design — international company that works with clients from around the world. Shares tips and tricks for UX/UI, illustration, and animation.

Tiktok

1. meshtimes — Product designer at Tiktok LA. Shares design resources, tips and tricks, and more!
2. designlead — Weekly design inspiration and design tips and tricks.
3. emilyzugay — Design comedy.

Instagram

1. ui_gradient — Design education. Very consumable content.

Twitter

1. vponamariov — Shares UI/UX tips and resources.