In need of some inspiration?

In need of some inspiration?

In need of some inspiration?

Here's a collection of 51 resources I've hand-picked in my own toolkit.

Curated by Paulo Carlos

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Design Systems, by Figma

Methodologies

Workshops

Figma's own resource on how to build design systems and ensure inclusivity. Also features live linked examples by big tech

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Design Systems, by Figma

Methodologies

Workshops

Figma's own resource on how to build design systems and ensure inclusivity. Also features live linked examples by big tech

Monthly Spotlight

All resources

51 Items

Furquan101

YouTube

Career

Furquan101 is a UX Designer at Meta who shares some of the most thorough UX interview prep videos on the platform

Community

Sharpen.Design

Prompts

Whiteboard

Randomly generate design prompts for practice in a format of designing for 'what' and whom 'for'

Interview

Curated.design

Landing Pages

Examples

An easy to use gallery of a variety of curated landing pages that may inspire your next design

Inspiration

EightShapes (Figma)

Documentation

Figma

Instantly annotate and breakdown specs of any component or frame via a point and click in Figma

Plugins

Flowmapp

Flows

Software

A free online tool used for creating interactive and visual sitemaps for planning and managing various projects

Tools

Ghosts (Figma)

Wireframe

Figma

A Figma plugin that converts mockups to wireframe layouts. Useful for higher level ideas, removing any granular details

Plugins

Webframe

Web Apps

Examples

A free collection of screenshots taken from hundreds of web apps. Organized into categories such as pricing, login, plans, and more

Inspiration

Ricardo Perez

YouTube

Career

Ricardo Perez is a UX Designer at Google and a YouTuber who shares content on the day to days of UX, as well as the job searching process

Community

Ikonate

Custom

Icons

A free and customizable source of vector icons. Adapt a collection of icons to suit your selected border, size, radius, and colours

Tools

Shift Nudge

Paid

Courses

Are you a designer looking to level up your UI and visual skills? Shift Nudge aims to strengthen your visual fundamentals

Education

Laws Of UX

Best Practices

Hueristics

A collection of best practices that designers can consider when building user interfaces, ranging from hueristics, principles, and more

Strategy

Notion UXR Templates

Templates

Research

Research templates for product review, stakeholder kickoff, usability testing, created by Odette Jansen

Strategy

Furquan101

YouTube

Furquan101 is a UX Designer at Meta who shares some of the most thorough UX interview prep videos on the platform

Community

Sharpen.Design

Prompts

Randomly generate design prompts for practice in a format of designing for 'what' and whom 'for'

Interview

Curated.design

Landing Pages

An easy to use gallery of a variety of curated landing pages that may inspire your next design

Inspiration

EightShapes (Figma)

Documentation

Instantly annotate and breakdown specs of any component or frame via a point and click in Figma

Plugins

Flowmapp

Flows

A free online tool used for creating interactive and visual sitemaps for planning and managing various projects

Tools

Ghosts (Figma)

Wireframe

A Figma plugin that converts mockups to wireframe layouts. Useful for higher level ideas, removing any granular details

Plugins

Webframe

Web Apps

A free collection of screenshots taken from hundreds of web apps. Organized into categories such as pricing, login, plans, and more

Inspiration

Ricardo Perez

YouTube

Ricardo Perez is a UX Designer at Google and a YouTuber who shares content on the day to days of UX, as well as the job searching process

Community

Ikonate

Custom

A free and customizable source of vector icons. Adapt a collection of icons to suit your selected border, size, radius, and colours

Tools

Shift Nudge

Paid

Are you a designer looking to level up your UI and visual skills? Shift Nudge aims to strengthen your visual fundamentals

Education

Laws Of UX

Best Practices

A collection of best practices that designers can consider when building user interfaces, ranging from hueristics, principles, and more

Strategy

Notion UXR Templates

Templates

Research templates for product review, stakeholder kickoff, usability testing, created by Odette Jansen

Strategy

Rachel How

YouTube

Rachel How is a design YouTuber covering ways of building income streams, on top of UI & design tools tips

Community

UXChallenge

Prompts

A preselected list of prompts with additional context to guide your next whiteboard practice or case study

Interview

Beautiful Shadows (Figma)

UI

A Figma plugin that automatically adds a visually appealing, layered shadow effect to any selected image or UI

Plugins

Checklist Design

Best Practices

Creating a new page or UI component? Follow up on best practices via a checklist

Strategy

Growth.Design

Case Studies

Growth.Design is a site that shares various case studies pertaining to design in big tech, offering creative, comic-style storytelling

Inspiration

Accessibility for teams

Article

An article from a Google designer during one of Google's I/O events. Highlights how teams can account for accessibility in the process

Accessibility

Lapa

Landing Pages

A collection of 5000+ desktop web landing pages taken all over the web, from massive tech companies to smaller start ups

Inspiration

Typeform

Software

An easy to use tool to quickly deploy surveys and gather user data. Integrates within the most popular platforms

Tools

Protopie

Software

Protopie is one of the most advanced prototyping focused tool you can use, with alot of features over Figma

Tools

Design Principles

Best Practices

An open source collection of 1448 Design Principles based off of 195 examples from companies & designers

Strategy

Scrnshts

App Store Designs

A completely free, hand-picked collection of app store design screenshots

Inspiration

Framer

Software

Framer is one of the fastest growing, advanced responsive website builders. In fact- this website was built in Framer

Tools

Interaction Design Foundation

Paid

Learn from experienced design leaders at your own pace. Courses focus on UX, HCI, usability, strategy, and more

Education

Built For Mars

Case Studies

A collection of 63 and counting UX case studies for reference and inspiration

Inspiration

Mobbin

UI Examples

Designing in iOS or Android? Mobbin takes screenshots of some of the most popular apps so you can reference best practices

Inspiration

Google UX Certificate

Free

A 100% free source to learn about UX, directly from Google themselves

Education

UX Project Checklist

Template

A handy checklist to reference as you work through through granularities of an end to end UX project

Strategy

femke.design

YouTube

Femke is a product designer who creates UX related content on YouTube which covers job searching, presenting, and much more

Community

Flowstep

UX Recordings

A free library of mobile app UX recordings and screenshots taken from the top iOS products on the app store

Inspiration

Baymard Institute

eCommerce

Designing an eCommerce experience? Baymard features best practices and insights from hundreds of retailers

Strategy

Design Buddies

Discord

The largest design related Discord community. The group features channels for design & portfolio feedback, paid opportunities, and more

Community

N/N Accessibility

Article

A N/N article that offers a great higher level overview of visual accessibility improvements you can add

Accessibility

Design Systems, by Figma

Best Practices

Figma's own resource on how to build design systems and ensure inclusivity. Also features live linked examples by big tech

Education

Webflow

Software

Webflow is another great advanced website builder where you can create responsive experiences, whether you know code or not

Tools

Cofolios

Portfolio

A portfolio inspiration page that focusses on interns on top tech companies around the world

Inspiration

UX Methods List

Methodologies

A comprehensive list of methods, processes, and deliverables for designers by Fabricio Teixeira at UX Collective

Strategy

Nielsen Norman Group

Articles

One of the very original pioneers of user experience. They have a great collection of articles and UX training available

Education

IDEO Design Kit

Methodologies

Enrolling stakeholders in a workshop? IDEO's design kit is a great tool to come up with new answers to difficult problems

Strategy

r/UXDesign

Reddit

Reddit has a large and active UX community of 120k and counting members

Community

Undraw

Open Source

Undraw offers free open source illustrations and offers the ability to change colours for that extra level of personalization

Tools

Designercize

Prompts

Randomly generated design prompts featuring the item to design, who it is for, and the target audience

Interview

Awwwards

Web Examples

A page that compiles inspirational sites and awards pages based on design

Inspiration

IterateUX

Discord

A Discord community of designers, researchers, engineers, and writers of different levels and backgrounds

Community

Uizard

Software

Stumped on ideas when creating a design? Uizard is a neat tool that generates mock UI using AI

Tools

Accessibility Project Thumbnail

The A11y Project

Articles

The A11y Project is one of the most comprehensive and up to date sites to learn more about accessibility

Accessibility

Figma Academy

Paid

Feel Figma is one of your weaker points? Figma Academy is a great online resource to level up your Figma skills

Education

chunbuns

YouTube

Chunbuns is a SF based product designer who creates a broad range of UX related content on YouTube

Community

Managing Workloads

Article

An article by Leslie Yang for design leaders on how to effectively navigate direct report discussions and managing workloads

Strategy

Bestfolios

Portfolio

A great inspiration page for portfolios, resumes, case studies, and other useful links for designers

Inspiration

Furquan101

YouTube

Furquan101 is a UX Designer at Meta who shares some of the most thorough UX interview prep videos on the platform

Community

Sharpen.Design

Prompts

Randomly generate design prompts for practice in a format of designing for 'what' and whom 'for'

Interview

Curated.design

Landing Pages

An easy to use gallery of a variety of curated landing pages that may inspire your next design

Inspiration

EightShapes (Figma)

Documentation

Instantly annotate and breakdown specs of any component or frame via a point and click in Figma

Plugins

Flowmapp

Flows

A free online tool used for creating interactive and visual sitemaps for planning and managing various projects

Tools

Ghosts (Figma)

Wireframe

A Figma plugin that converts mockups to wireframe layouts. Useful for higher level ideas, removing any granular details

Plugins

Webframe

Web Apps

A free collection of screenshots taken from hundreds of web apps. Organized into categories such as pricing, login, plans, and more

Inspiration

Ricardo Perez

YouTube

Ricardo Perez is a UX Designer at Google and a YouTuber who shares content on the day to days of UX, as well as the job searching process

Community

Ikonate

Custom

A free and customizable source of vector icons. Adapt a collection of icons to suit your selected border, size, radius, and colours

Tools

Shift Nudge

Paid

Are you a designer looking to level up your UI and visual skills? Shift Nudge aims to strengthen your visual fundamentals

Education

Laws Of UX

Best Practices

A collection of best practices that designers can consider when building user interfaces, ranging from hueristics, principles, and more

Strategy

Notion UXR Templates

Templates

Research templates for product review, stakeholder kickoff, usability testing, created by Odette Jansen

Strategy

Rachel How

YouTube

Rachel How is a design YouTuber covering ways of building income streams, on top of UI & design tools tips

Community

UXChallenge

Prompts

A preselected list of prompts with additional context to guide your next whiteboard practice or case study

Interview

Beautiful Shadows (Figma)

UI

A Figma plugin that automatically adds a visually appealing, layered shadow effect to any selected image or UI

Plugins

Checklist Design

Best Practices

Creating a new page or UI component? Follow up on best practices via a checklist

Strategy

Growth.Design

Case Studies

Growth.Design is a site that shares various case studies pertaining to design in big tech, offering creative, comic-style storytelling

Inspiration

Accessibility for teams

Article

An article from a Google designer during one of Google's I/O events. Highlights how teams can account for accessibility in the process

Accessibility

Lapa

Landing Pages

A collection of 5000+ desktop web landing pages taken all over the web, from massive tech companies to smaller start ups

Inspiration

Typeform

Software

An easy to use tool to quickly deploy surveys and gather user data. Integrates within the most popular platforms

Tools

Protopie

Software

Protopie is one of the most advanced prototyping focused tool you can use, with alot of features over Figma

Tools

Design Principles

Best Practices

An open source collection of 1448 Design Principles based off of 195 examples from companies & designers

Strategy

Scrnshts

App Store Designs

A completely free, hand-picked collection of app store design screenshots

Inspiration

Framer

Software

Framer is one of the fastest growing, advanced responsive website builders. In fact- this website was built in Framer

Tools

Interaction Design Foundation

Paid

Learn from experienced design leaders at your own pace. Courses focus on UX, HCI, usability, strategy, and more

Education

Built For Mars

Case Studies

A collection of 63 and counting UX case studies for reference and inspiration

Inspiration

Mobbin

UI Examples

Designing in iOS or Android? Mobbin takes screenshots of some of the most popular apps so you can reference best practices

Inspiration

Google UX Certificate

Free

A 100% free source to learn about UX, directly from Google themselves

Education

UX Project Checklist

Template

A handy checklist to reference as you work through through granularities of an end to end UX project

Strategy

femke.design

YouTube

Femke is a product designer who creates UX related content on YouTube which covers job searching, presenting, and much more

Community

Flowstep

UX Recordings

A free library of mobile app UX recordings and screenshots taken from the top iOS products on the app store

Inspiration

Baymard Institute

eCommerce

Designing an eCommerce experience? Baymard features best practices and insights from hundreds of retailers

Strategy

Design Buddies

Discord

The largest design related Discord community. The group features channels for design & portfolio feedback, paid opportunities, and more

Community

N/N Accessibility

Article

A N/N article that offers a great higher level overview of visual accessibility improvements you can add

Accessibility

Design Systems, by Figma

Best Practices

Figma's own resource on how to build design systems and ensure inclusivity. Also features live linked examples by big tech

Education

Webflow

Software

Webflow is another great advanced website builder where you can create responsive experiences, whether you know code or not

Tools

Cofolios

Portfolio

A portfolio inspiration page that focusses on interns on top tech companies around the world

Inspiration

UX Methods List

Methodologies

A comprehensive list of methods, processes, and deliverables for designers by Fabricio Teixeira at UX Collective

Strategy

Nielsen Norman Group

Articles

One of the very original pioneers of user experience. They have a great collection of articles and UX training available

Education

IDEO Design Kit

Methodologies

Enrolling stakeholders in a workshop? IDEO's design kit is a great tool to come up with new answers to difficult problems

Strategy

r/UXDesign

Reddit

Reddit has a large and active UX community of 120k and counting members

Community

Undraw

Open Source

Undraw offers free open source illustrations and offers the ability to change colours for that extra level of personalization

Tools

Designercize

Prompts

Randomly generated design prompts featuring the item to design, who it is for, and the target audience

Interview

Awwwards

Web Examples

A page that compiles inspirational sites and awards pages based on design

Inspiration

IterateUX

Discord

A Discord community of designers, researchers, engineers, and writers of different levels and backgrounds

Community

Uizard

Software

Stumped on ideas when creating a design? Uizard is a neat tool that generates mock UI using AI

Tools

Accessibility Project Thumbnail

The A11y Project

Articles

The A11y Project is one of the most comprehensive and up to date sites to learn more about accessibility

Accessibility

Figma Academy

Paid

Feel Figma is one of your weaker points? Figma Academy is a great online resource to level up your Figma skills

Education

chunbuns

YouTube

Chunbuns is a SF based product designer who creates a broad range of UX related content on YouTube

Community

Managing Workloads

Article

An article by Leslie Yang for design leaders on how to effectively navigate direct report discussions and managing workloads

Strategy

Bestfolios

Portfolio

A great inspiration page for portfolios, resumes, case studies, and other useful links for designers

Inspiration

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Think I could help out your team or project? Let’s get in touch.

paulocarlos.ux@gmail.com

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Paulo Carlos

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Think I could help out your team or project? Let’s get in touch.

paulocarlos.ux@gmail.com

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Think I could help out your team or project? Let’s get in touch.

paulocarlos.ux@gmail.com

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