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13 of My Favorite UI/UX Goodies
The best products & websites for UI/UX designers.
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1. Happy Hues
Happy Hues is one of the only color palette tools that provide a real example of how those colors can be utilized in an interface. In popular color palette library websites like coolors.co, I can see the colors, but I do not see how they can be used.
On Happy Hues, creator Mackenzie Child shows designers exactly how to work with the color palettes in a UI design. It’s seriously brilliant.
2. LearnUX.io
LearnUX.io has been my go-to recommendation for anyone getting started with UI, UX, or product design. It’s where I got my footing as a product designer.
LearnUX has evolved a lot since I originally used it, but the teachers still have cool accents, and the lessons are still exceptional. They even let you watch a few courses for free, and then it’s $15/mo for unlimited access.
3. Shaderade
Shaderade is inexplicably the de facto color shading tool for the modern designer. Shaderade generates a palette so simply that you’ll wonder what you could’ve done with all the time you wasted attempting to do math in Sketch’s color picker.
There are dozens of ways to generate a color palette, but I like Shaderade because it provides the numerical value and keeps it simple. There’s no fluff, just a quick free color shader.
