Best tools for web designers
For good web designers!
An important part of work of any good web designer is keeping up to date with trending tools to ease up his daily job. Every day there are hundreds
of articles about web design, new tools, scripts etc. It is impossible to read or see them all! In this post we will show you tools that are helpful in your daily hardship, and we will mention sites that will help you to overpower the abyss of the internet ;)
UX checklist
Are you about to turn in a ready website to a client? You’re sure you’ve done everything? UX checklist is a cheatsheet for web designers helping to plan their project, or it can serve as a checklist, where you can tick off work stages that are completed.
UI Names
Name generator. We have 45 countries to choose from!
Font Awesome
Here you will find scalable vector icons, that can be freely customized through CSS.
Pineapple.io
Aggregator of links for web designers and developers. Don’t miss a thing!
Window Resizer
Resize browser window to emulate various screen resolutions!
Html5 Sites
A collection of the most interesting pages about HTML5.
Html5 Weekly
Don’t have time to browse multiple pages in search of a new of content? Subscribe to the HTML5 Weekly Newsletter to get interesting stuff on your inbox.
Freebbble
A lot of free goods can be found on Freebbble — loads of templates, UI, landing pages, bootstraps and animations.
1st Webdesigner
An exceptional blog about web design created by a community of digital enthusiasts. First, read this post.
Freebiesbug
Great free resources for web designers, including templates, UI and plugins.
Pttrns
Browse mobile design patterns, UI kits and UI elements.
Flat UI Color Picker
If you are looking forward to create a great piece of flat design, use this color picker. If you’d like to know more about color palettes read our post Best Color Palettes.
UI Cloud
The world’s largest database of user interface design. Elements of UI and UI kits for download and inspiration.
Tech&All
Another page with resources for web designers. You will find scripts, templates, mockups, UI kits and elements, navigation, scripts and many others.
Site Inspire
No idea what to do for another site? You lack inspiration? Site Inspire will get you right back on the track. Pages can be filtered and viewed by categories, type, platform and style.
Unheap
Organized and large base of jQuery plugins from different categories: UI, Media, Inputs, Nav or Animations and Effects.
Unsplush it
…just make yourself a placeholder ;)
AWWWards
Pages rewarded by Awwards, that is the best of the best.
Responsive Design Weekly
Another newsletter, this time fresh portions on responsiveness every week on your mail.
Codrops
On Codrops you will find tutorials on web development and design techniques, plug-ins, articles as well as ideas and inspiration for solving problems that arise around creating web pages. You can find components, concepts of web pages and layouts. A veritable mine!
Trianglify
An app that generates beautiful meshes on the basis of triangles, which can be used as SVG or CSS backgrounds.
CSS Tricks
Website devoted for front-end, not just CSS. You can find code snippets on it ready to use, video tutorials, extensive forum, where you can share knowledge with others and even job offers.
Notepad++
Notepad for webmasters that supports several languages. Its features are syntax highlighting, PCRE, auto completion and more.
Enboard
You get the impression that all the necessary tools, inspirations are right here, in one place. Especially the two boards run by Dominik Serafin (A Pole can do it!) require special attention: web design and front-end. You will find over 500 resources, including blogs, articles, frameworks, icons, inspiration, podcasts and much more. Just sit down and browse.
Noun Project
Great source of icons (over 100,000!) licensed under the Creative Commons. Available to download as pngs and svgs. For Mac users, there is also an application called Noun ($10/month), through which we can download icons by dragging and dropping to any program like Adobe, Sketch, Power Point, instant messaging or email.
Templated
Templated is a collection of more than 800 templates in CSS and HTML5 licensed under Creative Commons.
Smashing Magazine
On Smashing Magazine you will find news from the world of code and web design.
SitePoint
Great site with the best articles for web professionals — developers, designers, freelancers and entrepreneurs.
