Design resources?
Vertika Nigam
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I'm an advocate of building from scratch.
But, when it comes to designing website and commerce experiences, and other products, I've seen it helps to start with a useful design system
My design team tells that there are certain other resources they use.
For things like icons, stock images, design podcasts for learning, etc.
What type of design resources do you generally look for while working on your own design projects?
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Dan O'Malley@dan_o_malley
I like to look at publicly available design systems from companies I like. The Figma community is also a good resource. For stock images, usually Unsplash.
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@dan_o_malley What do you normally look for in the Figma community?
@vertikanigam Design systems or just components. Anything I need for inspo or that I could potentially use without having to create it from scratch myself.
Behance is by far my favorite, it’s a site designed exactly for this. Users upload a wide variety of designs they’ve done from graphic design to UI experiences. It’s great source for inspiration.
Instagram, Reddit, Twitter, and other places where designers post their work are also great to learn emerging trends and draw inspiration.
If you’re looking for templates to get a head start check out envato, motionarray, Adobe stock, flaticon, icons8, etc - nearly an endless supply of starting points available
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@claytonwalker Right, for design inspiration and templates, these are really great.
So when you go on marketplaces like envato, behance or let's say Figma or any design community -- What other design-related things do you look for except inspiration and templates?
@vertikanigam stock music, video, and pictures mostly. It depends on what I need for the project I’m working on at the time.
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I use Google's material theme builder:
https://material-foundation.gith...
I like Figma community, Freepik, Beehance, Pinterest. Actually there are more photo stocks where are designs incorporated as well :)
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When it comes to templates,
- Figma plugins and community have wide range for templates and assets, for stock images unsplash have always lived up-to the mark.
- For icons, Lucide icon library which I loved the most, lucide icon library has very crisp and fluent and self explanatory icon set. Even for DocXter we have preferred the same icon library.
Have a look at DocXter's website here 😊
I look for some templates that I can modify and re-use according to my needs often.
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@sythe_dorifto Templates it is. What other resources do you normally need in your design?
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@sythe_dorifto That's the kind of answer I was looking for in this discussion.
Guess I'll have to have another discussion here for the same topic, and ask in a clearer way. My bad!