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29 of My Favorite Design Tools & Websites You’ve Never Heard of

All of the best websites I’ve bookmarked as a designer.

Danny Sapio
UX Collective

The design space is awash with countless design tools, plugins, websites, resources, and more promising to improve your workflow and make you a savvier designer. I’ve tried my hand at a lot of them over the years, but there are only a few that really stand out.

This list is the cream of the crop — the most obscure, creative, unique, helpful or exceptional. Some are fun sites to be inspired from; others are tools and resources that will absolutely make you a better designer.

I hope you enjoy! Let me know what your favorite tools are on Twitter.

1. The preposterous web portal of Erik Bernacchi

eeerik.com

This is quite possibly the wackiest and most impressive portfolio I’ve ever seen. It’s also just a fun website to mess around with. This site is full of quirky mini-games, a meme generator, a drum beat creator, a synthesizer, and much more entertaining programs that kept me occupied for a while.

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Hi, great tips.
I would just be carefull about some of the visual examples in this article because some of those lack a suffiscient contrast ratio between text and background and can lead to accessibility problems.
The 7. is missleading for me for…

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Thanks for sharing this. To your first point about lighter text, I see you’ve lightened the colour as well as the weight of the font. If designers are changing colours of text, you will need to make sure that these colour contrasts still adhere to…

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Tints & Shades

How do you pick tints and shades? Is there a tool for that?

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