Free resources for UI/UX designers — June 2021

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I started my design journey back in March 2020. I’m a self-taught designer.

I learnt everything using free resources available online. Over the past 1 year, I have come across a lot of free stuff, which was very helpful in my design journey. Here in this article, I’ll be sharing it with everyone out there.

I will update this article every month with new tools, tips and much more. So, better you save this article. I use Getpocket to save my favourite articles for future use.

A. Typography:

1. Type-scale.com: It helps with the visual type scale for all UI design projects.

A Visual Type Scale

B. Colors

1. Coolors

Coolors - The super fast color schemes generator!

2. MyColorSpace

ColorSpace - Color Palettes Generator and Color Gradient Tool

3. Colors by Muzli

Color Palette Generator - Create Beautiful Color Schemes

C. Icons

1. Iconscout

Download 3M+ Icons, 3D Illustrations & Lottie Animations | Iconscout

2. Freepik:

Freepik | Graphic Resources for everyone

3. Flaticon:

Flaticon, the largest database of free vector icons

D. Illustrations

1. Undraw.co

unDraw - Open source illustrations for any idea

2. Drawkit.io

DrawKit - Beautiful vector illustrations

3. Illustartions.co

illlustrations - open source illustrations kit

E. Stock Photos

1. Unsplash

Beautiful Free Images & Pictures | Unsplash

F: Blogs to Follow

Tip: To read paid medium articles for free, simply copy the link of the article and open it in Incognito mode.

1. UX planet

UX Planet

2. Smashing Magazine

Category "UX Design" - Smashing Magazine

3. UX Collective

UX Collective

G: Design Guidelines

1. Google:

Material Design

2. Microsoft

Microsoft Design

3. Apple:

Design - Apple Developer

H. SVG Backgrounds

1. SVGbackgrounds.com

Create Customizable, Hi-Def, and Scalable Backgrounds

2. BGJar

Free svg background generator

I. Mockup Tools

1. Shotsnapp: No login needed

shotsnapp - Create beautiful mockup presentation

F. Important UI/UX case studies:

1. https://growth.design/case-studies/
2. https://uxdesign.cc/when-to-use-user-flows-guide-8b26ca9aa36a
3. https://uxdesign.cc/developing-the-zomato-design-system-438357188904
4. Zomato Gold- https://uxdesign.cc/building-zomato-gold-design-process-challenges-learnings-from-designing-a-subscription-fcf7cdf5ae17
5. https://blog.uxfol.io/ux-portfolio-template/
6. https://www.casestudy.club/journal/ux-designer-portfolio
7. https://medium.com/@lucy.c.coker/an-app-to-simplify-landlord-and-tenant-communication-ux-ui-case-study-5a7b3a529c98
8. https://medium.com/designers-of-mmt/taking-the-seat-selection-experience-from-regular-to-a-dapper-fit-for-makemytrip-buses-b121d5ec68e4
9. Don Norman’s Design of everyday things (Also on Udacity for free)
10. Product Design exercises by Artiom Dashinsky

Bonus:

Logo Lab: Put your logo to the test and find out where it succeeds and where improvements could be made.

Logo Lab - Test Your Logo

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If you have any questions, shoot a mail at arvindsinghmems@gmail.com. Connect with me on LinkedIn, Behance, and Dribble.

Thanks for reading!