Meanwhile, the hours slip by and your page is still empty. So here’s a shortcut, a small map past the noise and straight to the useful stuff.
Branding & Graphic Design
Start with a labor of love. Alessandro Scarpellini’s Visual Journal collects branding and graphic design projects from around the world with zero fluff. It’s ad‑free and run by Alessandro. If it helps, buy him a coffee so he keeps up the good work for the rest of us.
If you want more raw discovery, The Index is a curated gallery and directory of graphic design projects that rewards curiosity and wandering.
To widen the lens, Craftwork’s curated web UI pulls from portfolios and agencies, filterable by style, illustration, and attributes. When your brain needs examples instead of adjectives, go here.
Color is the fastest way to change a mood. Coolors gets you palettes in seconds, complete with Figma plugin, Chrome and Adobe extensions for speed where it counts.
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Logos, ah the logos. Logosystem compiles marks worth studying: explore structure, rhythm, and negative space that does more with less.
Random pro tip: designers often stash treasure in public. Fellow creative Jackson D Greene recently dropped a folder of 1,000+ old rave flyers and record sleeves. Find texture, attitude and type bravado from a scene that designed at the speed of basslines, as an old clubber you can scroll and reminisce at the same time
Mobile & Apps
ScreensDesign is a clean gallery of screen patterns. Think navigation, onboarding, 404s – the stuff you only notice when it breaks.
For breadth and recency, Mobbin’s iOS app library is a living archive. Sort by flows, patterns, components, and get ideas on better structures.
Ready to ship? AppLaunchpad helps you design App Store screenshots that tell a product story. You can browse 4,000+ examples to see what “trendy” actually means today.
Product & UX Design
Landingfolio is for functional pages that quietly do the job – pricing, 404s, about, subscribe – the required but oh-so-important stuff. Expect a tilt to ‘corporate,’ which is useful when your audience is exactly that.
And when the brief moves from product to performance, Magritte collects social ad inspiration: formats, hooks, the first three seconds that decide the next thirty.
Sure, a scroll through Instagram, Pinterest, or design X might surface similar things, but not until you’ve burned an hour. Inspiration is a working library, so save what moves you, note why, and build your own index of patterns that solve real problems under real constraints. Then put it back into the world cleaner, braver, clearer – and share your work with us for the next update.
And if you’re reading this mid‑scroll, here’s permission to stop. You’ve got enough to start.
