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50+ free tools and resources to create awesome user interfaces

Davide Pacilio on May 12, 2020

“You’re only as good as the tools you use” This saying has been around for years and highlights the importance of using the correct tool for the j...
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🦄N B🛡 • Edited

Avataaars generator is as useful as its name evokes ship theft on the high seas.

I'm using it as we speak. Look at this guy, see how smug he is? Maybe it's because he just found this list of useful stuff:

smug-af-nathaaan-avataaar

Also, this piraaate who died happy, doing what he loved, "...stabbing Windows and having it bleed..."

piraaate-who-died-happy-avataaar

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Vaibhav Khulbe

Super cool resources! 🔥

For those who're still hungry for more resources, I wrote a post earlier this year:

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Kudakwashe Paradzayi

Amazing post. I'll definitely add some of your contributions on the Curated Design Tools repo.

GitHub logo kudapara / curated-design-tools

A curated list of the tools we use to enhance our design wokflow.

curated-design-tools

A curated list of the tools we use to enhance our design wokflow.

Design Applications

  • ExcaliDraw (⭐ Open Source ⭐) -Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.
  • Adobe XD - Wireframe, design, prototype, present, and share amazing experiences for web, mobile, voice, and more.
  • Figma - Figma helps teams create, test, and ship better designs from start to finish.
  • Sketch - A digital design toolkit that helps you work and collaborate faster in design, wireframing and prototyping projects.

Design tools

  • Grabient - Beautiful and simple UI for generating web gradients.
  • Blob Maker - Make organic svg shapes for your next design.
  • Coolors - Generate perfect color combinations for your designs.
  • Metatags - Edit and experiment with your content then preview how your webpage will look on Google, Facebook, Twitter and more!
  • Css filters - Visual playground…

Feel free to open a pull request if you want 😉

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Nikhil N Namal

I've contributed few buttons on CSSeffectsSnippets, happy to see you use it. 🙌

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J. David Escobar

absolutely helpful. thanks

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Ahmet Cetin

great list, thx. check this out for images/videos:

pikwizard.com

All images/videos containing people are model released, so you can use them in commercial projects as well, unlike in many other "free" image sites.

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uuware

Great post. Would you like to include a tool project to use icons? And I'd like to link your post.
A collection of over 33,000 high-quality free svg icons and tools for generating customized icon font. All icons are completely free for personal or business requirements.

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A collection of over 33,000 high-quality free svg icons and tools for generating customized icon font. All icons are completely free for personal or business requirements.

icons-font-customization

A collection of over 33,000 high-quality free svg icons and tools for generating customized icon font. All icons are completely free for personal or business requirements.
Open See all icons, to view all icons. You can change color, background color, size for icons and can search or cache selected results.
Update: Now you can download PNG, JPG, ICO and Apple ICNS image files directly from online.
🔶Desktop Application for Windows, Linux, MacOS is released, or goto Download Releases 🔶

(中文说明请参考后半部分)


🔶All icons collected here are completely free for your personal or business requirements.🔶
You can use this tool to combine / generate your own icon webfonts for your project from different sources.
This relevant license information is included in generated css file automatically.
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Icon Collections:

  • ant-design-icons Source: visit, License: MIT
  • Bootstrap Icons Source: visit, License: MIT
  • BoxIcons Source: visit, License: CC 4.0
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Krypton | Madhusudan Babar

Awesome 😍 😍

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ThemeSelection

Very helpful article. Thank you for sharing.

We recently launched Materio Vuetify VueJS Admin Template that can be useful for frontend development and responsive web apps.

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MrSid

Awesome...All in one😍😍😍

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ansmtz

Fantastic. Now I want to use all of this immediately!
Thank you!

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Waylon Walker

Amazing List here.

I just discovered better-mobile-inputs.

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Abiodun Paul Ogunnaike

Nice tool, thanks bro

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Zonayed Ahmed

Take a look at this one: gradienta.io
They also have an editor to make gradient: gradienta.io/editor

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Eugenia Evtushenko

Hey, the UI Bakery UX/UI Designer has just published the article on the 2020 UX/UI design trends with the relevant tools and interfaces examples. Check it out: uibakery.io/post/2020-ux-ui-design...

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Musharof Chowdhuy

Many of them are my favorite tools, thanks for such a great content.

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Csaba Kissi

Great collection of tools. I would like to contribute to the list with my latest project. Free collection of customizable Tabler icons from Pawel at tablericons.com

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Vaibhav Khulbe

That's bookmarked already. Cool stuff!

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Hariprasath

Awesome tools..

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Matheus de Campos

amazing!

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Eliomar Garzon

Oh dude this post it's so greeeat. Thanks man.

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Sean • Edited

Dude, you deserve for real props on this one. HOOOOLY, like this is great! I definitely needed this to take my web dev to the next level.

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Csaba Kissi

I would like to contribute with my latest side project that ables you to configure more than 550 SVG icons named Tabler Icons

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Tarek Hamaoui

wonderful! thanks!

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Vincent Will

Awesome list - thanks for adding my CSS Separator Generator :D

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imphilippesimo

Awesome 🔥🔥🔥

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Atharva Kulkarni

Thanks a lot for the list.

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Tobias Totz

Wow, that are awesome resources! Thank you for sharing them <3
I bookmarked many of them and looking forward to use them for upcoming projects :)

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Krypton | Madhusudan Babar

Awesome collection,
Thanks for sharing 😇

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Ali Afghah

Awesome! Thank you for sharing.

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Raymond

Where have I been? There are so many amazing tools out there that I haven't yet discovered. Wow! Thank you so much for this post!!

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Romain Lt

Awesome ! Thank you ;)

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16am

Amazing colloction 💥

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Uchena Miller

This post helped a lot

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Mateo Perez Salazar

Wowwwwww this is gold!!!!!!. thanks a lot for this

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Ej Sulit 🇵🇭

I don't know where to start, but THANK YOUUUU!!!

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Rostyslav Semanyshyn

This is awesome list! Thanks!

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Panshak

Wow! Awesome!.. Just awesome! I'm not familiar with most of them, and they're tools that will really be useful for me.

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Parvathi Rajpal

Thank You! ✨

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Pawel

Great Post 🙌. All of them are fabulous.
Thanks for sharing.

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venkatesh-aj

Hi there, I've created a color palette tool called colorsui.com. It's a free color tool.

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webcodingdev

Really awesome content

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nalani5210

This list is great!

At the same time share a free online tool website, hoping to help fans jsonformatting.com/

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Lordicon

Feel free to add Lordicon Animated Icons

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Lordicon • Edited

Feel free to add Lordicon Animated Icons

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Alex Tomás

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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RamyOkasha

thank you ❤

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Cynthia 🏳️‍🌈 Sanchez

Wow.. this list is AMAZING!

I would add also EOS icons to the list icons.eosdesignsystem.com/, as they are purely open source icons and 100% customizable.

Thank you for sharing!

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Adil Velizade

Please follow instagram : @master_javascript

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ThemeSelection • Edited

Great list. 🤩 We have also prepared the list of Best Open Source Web Development Tools.

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vrushank

If someone is looking for best design resources, must refer this post: dev.to/theme_selection/best-design...

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Arshit

Thanks :) Great collection! It’s really very useful.

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Milos Bejda

Add twitpile to the list!
twitpile.com

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qq449245884

Hello, I like your article very much. May I translate your article into Chinese and share it with Chinese developers?I will attach a link to the original and the author's name.

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Hakeem Almidan

illustrations potential addition: undraw.co/illustrations

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Manoj Naidu

Amazing! You saved a lot of my time.

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Jabarii

Amazing Content!!!

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Klausbert

There is something for anyone here, thanks!!

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Uncle.Tobi

Thank you!

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Will G

Great post! Thanks for all these new resources!

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Alain D'Ettorre

Amazing resources, thank you!

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León • Edited

OMG thnks :0

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Mateus Schmitz

Wow, awesome list. Thanks for sharing!

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SparklingINsilence

Wow, super useful. Very kind of you to share 😍

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Swastik Baranwal

Damn.. THIS IS SO AMAZING I LOVE YOU!!

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The-Kaveshan

This is so awesome!

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chisholmd

I am so glad I followed the link in the newsletter :) Terrific collection of tools I had no idea existed. Thanks

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Code_Regina

This is amazing! Thank you for publishing this awesome resource for user interfaces. I did not even know remove background existed and it will be so very helpful to future projects!!!!!

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Ali Shikhiyev • Edited

this is me ))

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Camilo Rincon

Awesome, this resources are really helpful thanks ! :D

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Jan Dvorak

Interesting, will check them out.
One addition for React (and styled-components) devs when it comes to icons: styled-icons.js.org/

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Kartik Nair

Wow fontsarena looks awesome! I've been looking for something like that since a long time. Thanks man ❤️

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Rahilka Simonova

Great list! Thanks a lot for sharing!!

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Obinna Ugwu

Thank you so much for this.

It was really helpful.

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Dina

I found design checklist a great resource.

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ItsFoxCrafter

One of the best lists, now i can learn how they make smooth animations

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jackchan

Very good content, about the font part, recommend a font download site that I often use, maybe it can be added to this list? fontskey.com