What are your favorite visual design inspiration sources?

I'm a bit late to this but my usual stops are the some of the bigger sites (BBC, Google etc) but also...

material.io/
dribbble.com/

and this one because it always makes me smile:
lingscars.com/

Here are some I haven't seen in the comments yet, in no particular order:

• Case Study Club
• Really Good Emails
• FiveThirtyEight's Interactive Projects
• But Does it Float
• New York Times interactive infographics from different years (but you need a subscription)
• Nielsen Norman Group (for conceptual inspiration)
• TVTropes (for more conceptual inspiration)

css-tricks

android site / chrome dev site / web.dev

apple.com

I really like the clean design a lot.

As a developer, I like codepen, css-tricks, and any Google search including the keywords "trend" and "2019"

If I need inspiration I generally go to dribbble, behance, or webframe.

Dribble and medium.muz.li/

Lately everything I make ends up looking a bit like dev.to (might have seen this website before) I think the style is a perfect balance between quirk and practicality.

In Russia there is a great design studio artlebedev.ru, they are popular all over the world and won many awards.

They make websites, interfaces, logos, architect and industrial design and some really epic projects like this periodical table or Moscow metro map

Their design always inspires me and you can learn a lot from them (including website design).

When I have nothing to do I'll scroll through awwwards. Some designs are really extra or out of the box but they really inspire me.

Found Uibot recently and it seems to be interesting. It randomly generates really amazing UIs.

It's so raw and brutalist. I love it.

instagram and behance.net, oh and dribble!

I just put my comment from a similar discussion here 😉

Matthias 🤖 • Jul 4 '19

I'll answer this myself 😂

• hyperpixel.io
• siteinspire.com
• lapa.ninja
• speckyboy.com
• search.muz.li (e.g. "website red")
• creative-portfolios.com

This is going to be an unpopular opinion here, coming from a designer who already knows how trends works, but anyway I'm going to copy & paste part of my comment in Nadine's post:

A really good source of inspiration, that very few people think about are designs systems. AirBnB, Google Material, Atlassian, IBM, Spotify, {...}, you name it, already solved a huge amount of problems related to design, and the best part is that you have access to them! they are waiting for you to "hack them".

There is a book that I always recommend, A Primer of Visual Literacy, by Donis A. Dondis (La sintaxis de la imagen, in Spanish). The book is not the best about visual language, but is very easy to follow, and a really good introduction. Obviously there are books a lot better in that precise matter, but this one is a must-read for anyone doing anything visual. Trust me on this, there will be a before and after if you read and understand how human perception works, that would help you a lot in terms to take those decisions about colors, composition, and a lot more things that you probably never thought that matters in visual design.

Dribbble's my usual go-to, but like others have said looking at what other sites are doing is huge too.

I'm constantly thinking about things I like/don't like about random Login forms I come across, for example. If something particularly stands out to me, then I like to dig into the Inspector to see how they did it.