Resources

Over the past decade I’ve collected many design resources which I continue to revisit time and time again. On this page I’ve organized a few of my absolute favorites for other design professionals to use. Enjoy! 🀘🏼


COURSES

UX Masterclass - A practical UX design course. Learn UX design methods and principles that you can put to work right away on a variety of projects and work settings.

Process Masterclass - An in depth online design course for UI/UX design. Learn design thinking and design execution, and become a more valuable designer.

Working With Clients to Get Design Approval with Paul Boag

Stand Out as a Web Designer with Dann Petty

Logotype Design for Brand Identity with Steve Wolf

Mastering Illustrator: 10 Tips & Tricks to Speed Up Your Workflow with DKNG

BOOKS

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

The Making of A Manager by Julie Zhuo

Simply Said: Communicating Better at Work and Beyond by Jay Sullivan

Steal the Show: From Speeches to job Interview to Deal-Closing Pitches by Michael Port

Radical Candor by Kim Scott

Brutally Honest by Emily Cohen

The Brand Gap: How to Bridge the Distance Between Business Strategy and Design by Marty Neumeier

ICONOGRAPHY

Material Design Icons (Google)  - Material icons are delightful, beautifully crafted symbols for common actions and items

Feather Icons - Simply beautiful open source icons

Iconnoir - Iconoir is one of the biggest open source libraries with currently 914 SVG Icons.

Lucide - An open-source icon library that provides 1000+ vector (svg) files for displaying icons and symbols in digital and non-digital projects.

Heroicons - Beautiful hand-crafted SVG icons, by the makers of Tailwind CSS.

Untitled UI - A clean, consistent, and neutral icon library crafted specifically for modern UI design. Made for Figma, in Figma.

Icon Design Guide and Template Grids - by Iconutopia - Everything you need to know about icon design to get started. Adobe Illustrator template grids.

Zach Roszczewski (Icon Designer) - Zach is a freelance icon & illustration designer living in Encinitas, California. He is also the owner and creator of Flaticons, a premium icon set marketplace.

UI/UX BEST PRACTICES

Laws of UX - A collection of best practices that designers can consider when building user interfaces.

Nielsen Norman Group - World Leaders in Research-Based User Experience

UI Component Handbook -The definitive guide to standardize the design/code of the UI Components based on the 39 most popular Reference Systems

Web Field Manual - Hundreds of web design resources and tools 

ARTICLES & VIDEOS

πŸ“ Brand New - Opinions on corporate and brand identity work.

πŸ“ Gestalt Principles in UI Design

πŸ“ The 7-Step-Paul-Rand Logo-Test

πŸ“ The Art of Presenting Creative Work

πŸ“ How to Fend Off Bad Client Ideas

▢️ The Challenge of Creative Work

▢️ The Gap by Ira Glass

FREE MOCKUPS

MrMockup

Mockup Cloud

Is.Graphics

FREE STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY

Unsplash

Pexels (also has free stock video)

Pixabay

WEB DESIGN INSPIRATION

Land-Book (Practical website in common industries)

Awwwards

Codepen (Great for micro interactions with editable code to back it up)

Godly

The Responsive

MaxiBestOf

minimal.gallery

CSS Design Awards

BRANDING

Global Brand Database - Access international trademarks, appellations, emblems, allowing users to explore using keywords, names, numbers, and image similarity.

COLOR & ACCESSIBILITY

Accessible colors for user interfaces

WebAIM Contrast Checker

Color Contrast Checker

BrandColors - The biggest collection of official brand color codes around

TYPOGRAPHY

Google Fonts

Adobe Fonts

Typewolf - What’s trending in type

Flawless Typography Checklist - A typography master course that doubles as an interactive visual reference that helps you achieve flawless type on every design project

ASPIRATIONAL DESIGN AGENCIES

Balkan Bros.

Basic

BigFan

Christopher Doyle & Co.

Collins

Design Studio

DixonBaxi

Edelmade

Elegant Seagulls

Eleken (Specialize in SaSS companies)

Favor the Brave

FocusLab

Forge

Gretel

Hoodzpah

Hype Legal (Specialize in law firms)

IDEO

Jones Knowles Ritchie

Monker

Mother Design

Mrs&Mr

NORD ID

Pentagram

Perky Bros

Practice

Rogue Studio

Smith Diction

Studio Mast

Together

UENO

Upstatement 

Wolff Olins

Work by Land