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Essentials
- Figma - From ideation to high-fidelity prototype, everything in one app
- Protopie - an advanced prototyping tool for dynamic & multimodal interactions
- Loom - From the first presentation to the final pixel, design teams move faster and more efficiently with async video messaging.
- Notion - From UX writing to design system documentation
Figma plugins
- Noise — again, this is very self-explanatory name; you can add noise to your designs (free)
- LottieFiles — Lottie animations for your designs
- Figmify: Convert web pages into Figma layers.
- Stark — one of the best tools that will help you create accessible designs
- Blush: Customize hand-drawn illustrations.
- Charts - Beautiful charts in figma
- Isometric - Isometric allows you to create isometric layers without manually having to set them up.
- Arc: Create curved text in Figma.
- Roto: Create 3D models from Figma designs.
- Palettes: Generate and save colour palettes.
- Gradient Map: Create a cool gradient map directly from the selected image in Figma.
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UI kit
Typography
- Apple fonts — Perfect for Apple devices Just go with SF FONT
- Google Fonts — Font suits for all languages
- Inter - my favorite free font
- Free fonts by Awwards - Amazing free types
- Type scale - a selection of font styles that can be used across an app, ensuring a flexible yet consistent style that accommodates a range of purposes
- Font Sizes in UI Design: The Complete Guide - Extensive guidelines with specific examples for iOS, Android and web
- WhatFont (chrome extension) - The easiest way to identify fonts on web pages.
Colour
- Mindfully curated colour palettes -A collection of unique color combinations for your design projects. Steal them. Use them. Make something beautiful.
- Colorbox - Accessible color generator
- BrandColors — When you are starting as a designer, use these colors and understand how they maintain hue
- Colour Hunt — Trendy colours
- Webgradients — Give a spark
- Building Your Color Palette - the ultimate and most actionable guide to building your colour palate for UI design
Icons
- Icons Basics — Understand about pixel perfection
- Material Design Icons — Download and analyze how they are making perfect icons
- Noun Project — Just good icons
- Brand Icons — All big companies’ logo in SVG, you dont need to google it.
- Iconify: Access to a huge library of icons.
- Pikaicons: Unleash Your Creativity with Our Growing Collection of Charming Icons, Designed to Make You Stand Out.
Illustrations
- Blush: Customizable hand-drawn illustrations.
- humaaans: Mix-&-match illustrations of humans.
- Open Doodles: Free sketchy illustration library.
- Undraw — Use these as a dummy when you are starting a project.
- Ideogram: Helping people become more creative with AI
- Absurd Design: Illustrations that give a unique visual style.
- Desi log: Free illustration pack of Indian characters with mix-and-match components. Get them here
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Images
- Unsplash: High-resolution photos from various photographers.
- Pexels: Free stock photos and videos with a wide range of categories.
- Pixabay: Free photos, videos, and music.
- Remove.bg — use this when you make social media profile picture
- TinyPNG — Helps to compress images when you build your site
Video
- Pexels Video: Diverse collection of free stock videos.
- Videvo: Free stock videos, motion graphics, and sound clips.
- Pixabay Video: Wide array of free stock videos and clips.
- Coverr: Unique free video footage for various uses.
- Life of Vids: Stock videos, clips, and loops free of copyrights.
- Videezy: High-definition stock video footage and b-rolls.
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