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Design is what links creativity and innovation. It shapes ideas to become practical and attractive propositions for users or customers. These apps and tools will help you become a better designer, regardless of your skill level.
UICloud
UICloud is a service for both designers and developers. It collects the best user interface designs from the internet and provides a search engine for you to find the best UI elements easily and quickly. The app is quickly becoming the largest UI design database and search engine in the world.
UX Archive
UX Archive wants to help people create the best user experiences possible for their apps. UX Archive helps designers explore what has and hasn’t worked, and allows them to observe patterns that they should include in their app. They lay out the most interesting user flows so you can compare them, build your point of view and be inspired.
Little Big Details
Little Big Details is a curated collection of the finer details of design, updated every day. Little Big Details was created by Floris Dekker and resources are curated with Andrew McCarthy. With help of the community, they receive hundreds of submissions per month that make it possible to give you fresh daily content.
Crayon
Crayon is the new source of inspiration for marketers. Crayon is a search engine on top of the biggest collection of real marketing designs on the web. You can do powerful searches, like home pages on SquareSpace or landing pages, and save designs and comments in Collections to share with your team.
Pttrns — Pttrns
Pttrns is a curated library of iPhone and iPad user interface patterns. All patterns has been carefully chosen before they were added to maintain excellent content quality.
Zeplin — Zeplin
Zeplin allows you to quickly prepare specs & guidelines for developers. Easily document properties of UI elements, tailored to the platform you’re working on.
The app also lets you generate powerful color palettes automatically from the colors you use; export codes and resources for iOS, Android and Web. No more back-and-forths, messy email threads. Invite your teammates and keep all your design resources, needs in one location. Collaborate efficiently and save time.
Polarr
Polarr represents the future of photography. The app learns your unique anesthetic styles and performs recommendation and customized renditions of their photos in a high quality and production ready environment. The free version of their editor is super powerful and works on all platform.