Design & prototype
42 resourcesInterface design
12The default. Browser-based UI design, real-time collaboration, prototyping, Dev Mode handoff.
Open-source Figma alternative. Self-hostable, SVG-native, genuinely free.
Mac-only vector and UI tool with a deep plugin ecosystem.
Free offline design app that opens Sketch and Figma files. Works on low-spec machines.
Industry-standard vector editor. Still the best tool for logo and icon drawing.
One-time purchase vector and raster app. No subscription, genuinely capable.
Template-driven design. Useful when a client needs to edit things themselves.
Vector design for Mac and iPad, formerly Vectornator.
Photoshop in the browser. Opens PSD, XD, Sketch and Figma files.
Browser vector editor from the Photopea team.
Open-source vector editor. SVG-native and completely free.
Open-source raster editor. Rough interface, capable engine.
Prototyping & motion
12High-fidelity interaction prototypes. Use when motion and sensor logic need to be exact.
Interactive animations that ship straight to web and app as a runtime file.
Build 3D scenes in the browser and embed them live on a page.
Fast motion graphics for UI. Imports Figma frames directly.
Timeline-based interaction design for Mac. Long-standing favorite for micro-interactions.
Meta's free prototyping tool. Steep learning curve, unmatched precision.
Web-based high-fidelity prototyping with device preview.
Conditional logic and dynamic data. The tool for complex enterprise flows.
Simple clickable prototypes. Fastest path from sketch to shareable link.
Design and prototype natively on iPhone, preview instantly on device.
Ship After Effects animations to web and app as lightweight JSON.
Keyframe animation that exports usable code.
Build & publish
13Design tool that publishes a real hosted site. Good when the deliverable is the website.
Visual builder with a proper CMS. The safe pick for client sites someone else will edit.
Agency-oriented builder. Easy handover to non-technical business owners.
Static site framework. Fastest route to a fast, SEO-friendly marketing site.
Polished templates, easy client handover. Good default for small business sites.
One-page sites in minutes. Cheapest way to ship a landing page.
Build client portals and directories on top of Airtable.
Portfolio-first builder favoured by designers and studios.
Editorial-feeling sites with strong typography control.
Turn a Notion page into a real website with your own domain.
Deploy front-end projects instantly. Free tier covers most client work.
Static hosting with forms and functions built in.
React framework behind most modern production sites.
Tool directories
5Runs the annual Design Tools Survey — real usage percentages instead of opinion. Figma sits at 82% for UI design.
Huge open-source list across 36 categories. Comprehensive but ageing — plenty of dead and discontinued tools in it.
General tool directory with a design section. Useful collections on icon libraries, mockups and illustrations.
Where new design tools launch. Filter by the design topic.
Searchable index of AI tools by task.
AI design
34 resourcesDesign assistants
9Describe a screen in plain language, get editable designs and prototypes inside Figma.
Chat-driven canvas for mockups, landing pages and slides. Iterate by describing changes.
Generate and edit UI components, export to React or Figma.
AI-native UI design tool. Auto-generates and audits design systems.
Design tool with AI generation and auto-token extraction built in.
Generates wireframes and UI from a text brief.
Figma plugin that generates full website designs from a prompt.
Predicts where users look before you ever test with real people.
Attention heatmaps and clarity scores from a static design.
Prompt to working app
8Prompt to React and Tailwind components you can paste into a real project.
Prompt to a full working web app with database and auth wired up.
Full-stack app generation in the browser, editable line by line.
Describe an app, get it built and hosted in the browser.
AI code editor. The one most developers switched to.
Agentic IDE that edits across a whole codebase.
Terminal-based agent for building and refactoring real projects.
Prompt to full-stack app with database and auth included.
Sketch to wireframe
3Image & asset generation
10Best-in-class aesthetic quality. Discord and web.
The one that renders legible text inside images.
Generates true vector SVG, not just raster. Rare and useful.
Real-time generation and upscaling as you sketch.
Generation bundled with a huge existing stock library.
Fine-grained control with trainable style models.
Commercially safe generation, trained on licensed stock.
Converts raster images to clean vector automatically.
Background removal in one click. Still the fastest.
Free open-source image upscaler that runs offline.
Writing & content
4Structure & flows
23 resourcesWhiteboards
7Figma's whiteboard. Best when the workshop output feeds straight into design files.
Whiteboard with UX and wireframe templates, commenting and voting for client workshops.
Hand-drawn style diagrams. No account, no friction, loads instantly.
Infinite canvas that feels instant. Good for thinking out loud on a call.
Workshop-focused whiteboard with facilitation tools and timers.
Brainstorming board that converts into Lucidchart diagrams.
Local-first infinite canvas linked to your own notes.
Sitemaps & IA
7Visual sitemap builder. Scope a client site in ten minutes and share the link.
Personas, user flows, journey maps and sitemaps with client sharing built in.
Flowcharts, wireframes and sticky notes in one file. Fastest tool for user flows.
Sitemaps, content planning and user flows with client sharing.
Free sitemap builder. No account needed, exports to XML.
Sitemap plus content inventory in one place.
Crawls a live site and generates a visual sitemap automatically.
Wireframing
5Deliberately rough wireframes so clients critique structure instead of color.
Community wireframe libraries. Search 'wireframe kit' and pick one to standardise on.
Wireframes, diagrams and mockups in the browser.
Wireframing with a large template library.
Deliberately minimal. Nothing to configure, just draw.
Inspiration
48 resourcesReal product patterns
14Thousands of real app and web screens filed by flow: checkout, onboarding, empty states.
How leading products handle dashboards, auth, settings, pricing and search.
Recorded end-to-end user journeys, not screenshots. Shows the transitions too.
Interaction breakdowns from shipped apps, annotated frame by frame.
Daily feed of mobile and web screens, filterable by pattern and app.
Daily UI shots sorted by component type. Good for a quick visual sweep.
Daily UI inspiration filed by pattern and platform.
Mobile design patterns, long-running iOS-heavy archive.
Free mobile UI library sorted by screen type.
Annotated examples of UX done well, with the reasoning.
Thousands of email designs. The reference for transactional email.
Video recordings of top app onboarding flows.
Mobile and web screens from shipped products.
Dashboard, settings and billing screens from real SaaS.
Landing pages
9Large landing page gallery. Stronger for conversion patterns than award sites.
Landing pages plus free templates and design books.
Single-page sites. Close to the scope of most small business projects.
Landing pages sliced into reusable sections: hero, pricing, testimonials.
SaaS marketing sites only. Useful when a client wants a 'startup' look.
Landing pages selected for copywriting as much as design.
Gallery of sites that get dark mode right.
Web design 1991 onward. Useful historical grounding.
Curated landing page gallery, updated regularly.
Award galleries
10Jury-scored on design, usability, creativity and content. Mostly big-budget agency work.
Tightly curated site gallery. Higher signal, lower volume.
Filterable by style, type and subject. Best filters of any gallery here.
Experimental and interactive work. Where to look when a brief says 'make it memorable'.
Daily and monthly winners with judge scoring broken out.
Restrained, typography-led sites. Antidote to over-designing.
Raw, anti-polish web design. Useful antidote to templates.
Long-running curated gallery with strong taste.
Experimental and editorial web work.
Daily site awards with category breakdowns.
Community & feeds
15Concept shots. Treat as visual mood, not a usability reference.
Full case studies with process. Better than Dribbble for learning reasoning.
Chrome extension that fills every new tab with fresh design work.
Directory of directories. Where to go when nothing above has what you need.
Rougher, more independent web work. Useful when everything starts looking the same.
Five hand-picked design links every weekday, run by UX Collective. The archive is searchable by category.
Visual research boards without the algorithm. Slow, deliberate collecting.
Fast visual bookmarking, popular with art directors.
Curated visual discovery, better signal than Pinterest.
Design community link aggregator.
Portfolio and shot community built by designers.
Daily creative industry journalism.
AIGA's design publication. Thoughtful long reads.
Creative industry news, UK-focused but broad.
Typography spotted in the wild, indexed by typeface.
Assets
103 resourcesUI kits & freebies
22Large marketplace of kits, templates and 3D. Has a substantial free section.
Free UI kits and templates for Figma, Sketch and XD, updated often.
Long-running library of icons, kits and wireframes in .sketch and .svg.
Hand-picked resources filed by icons, illustration, type, color and accessibility.
Big curated directory of design tools and asset sites.
500+ free resources sorted by kit, icon set, font and template.
1,500+ free UI components in Figma and Sketch, browsable by tag — empty state, checkout, pricing, dashboard.
Long-running freebie library. Figma section is the live one; the PSD archive has gone quiet.
The biggest Figma UI kit. Huge free tier.
Official Tailwind components. What developers actually build with.
Tailwind component library with a matching Figma file.
Free Tailwind component set, well documented.
Tailwind plugin with semantic component classes.
Free copy-paste Tailwind components.
Tailwind templates for Figma, HTML, React and Next.
Design systems and dashboard kits for Figma.
Illustrations, UI kits and mockups, generous free section.
UI kits and icon sets across Figma and Sketch.
Webflow and Framer components and templates.
Official template marketplace, many free.
Production-ready templates for client sites.
AI-generated stock imagery, free for commercial use.
Mockups
12Free device, print and packaging mockups. Presenting work well wins approvals.
Clean device and branding mockups, generous free selection.
Print and stationery mockups. Useful for branding deliverables.
Wrap a screenshot in a device frame and background in about ten seconds.
3D device mockups and animated product videos.
Thousands of mockup scenes, no Photoshop needed.
Browser mockup and scene builder with real-time editing.
Mockups, logos and video templates in one subscription.
App store screenshots and 3D device shots.
Free 3D mockup generator in the browser.
Drag a screenshot into thousands of scenes.
Huge vector device mockup library.
Icons
27Clean open-source set. The practical default in modern web projects.
Six weights of the same family. Flexible across dense and airy layouts.
Pairs naturally with Tailwind. Outline and solid versions of each.
Very large MIT-licensed set. Consistent stroke across thousands of glyphs.
Neutral system icons with line and fill variants.
Search across 200,000+ icons from 150+ sets in one place.
Google's official set. Use when you are designing Android or Material UI.
Apple's set, weight-matched to SF Pro. Required for native-feeling iOS work.
Huge library plus editors. Free tier needs attribution — check before client work.
Best coverage for unusual concepts nobody else has drawn.
Free open-source set, 2000+ icons, MIT licensed.
15x15 crisp icons designed for interfaces.
Fully free, no premium tier, over 1600 icons.
Very large set with multiple styles.
Modern set with six visual styles.
One of the largest icon and illustration libraries anywhere.
500,000+ free SVG vectors, searchable.
Official brand logos as SVG. The one for social icons.
Enormous library. Watch the attribution rules on the free tier.
Icon marketplace with a solid free filter.
Simple, consistent, free for commercial use.
Font Awesome redrawn in a lighter line style.
Tiny 15x15 icons for dense interfaces.
Rounded, friendly, open-source set.
Free set in line and solid weights.
Icon app plus a large library, good organiser.
Framework-agnostic icon delivery from 150+ sets.
Illustrations & 3D
21Recolorable SVG scenes. Overused, but recoloring to brand fixes most of that.
Customisable and animatable illustration scenes with editable color and background.
Hand-drawn people you can mix and match. Free for commercial use.
Poseable figures with swappable clothing and skin tones.
Illustration collections you customize, with a Figma plugin.
Massive free library of 3D objects rendered from every angle.
3D illustrations and props, editable colors on many packs.
Hand-drawn illustration packs, many free.
Surreal hand-drawn illustrations. Distinctive, less overused.
Public domain sketch illustrations. No attribution at all.
Mix-and-match gradient illustrations, fully free.
Royalty-free illustration gallery with color customisation.
Large illustration library across many styles.
Free illustrations in a consistent modern style.
Free graphics and illustrations, no attribution.
Free illustrations plus animated versions.
Full 3D suite. Free, open source, industry capable.
Browser-based 3D that is genuinely easy to learn.
3D and AR design in the browser, embeds on web.
Free low-poly 3D models, successor to Google Poly.
Huge 3D model library with a free section.
Photos & video
21Magazine-quality photography with an API for seeding demos and UI states.
Photos and video, commercial use, no attribution required. Good business imagery.
Photos, vectors, video and audio. Can filter out AI-generated results.
Smaller and less recognisable, which is exactly why it is useful.
Shopify's library, skewed toward commerce and small business subjects.
Free stock video, sized and looped for hero backgrounds.
Free video, music and sound effects for prototypes and reels.
Non-stocky photos, icons and illustrations. License-free.
CC0 photos, no attribution required.
Deliberately odd, high-quality free photos.
Free photos from one photographer, consistent look.
High-resolution photos donated by photographers.
Free photos of Black and Brown people. Fills a real gap in stock.
Free photos and video for commercial use.
Photos, vintage art and PSD mockups. Strong public domain archive.
Free food photography. Useful for restaurant clients.
CC0 photos sorted by color and category.
Free stock video, motion graphics and music.
Free 4K video, no attribution needed.
Creative Commons sound effects, huge archive.
Free sound effects and music for prototypes.
Color & type
59 resourcesPalette generators
15Fastest general-purpose generator. Hit space until something lands.
Previews your palette on a real page layout with contrast checking built in.
Strongest for color theory rules and accessibility checking.
Curated palettes tagged by mood. Best when you need a starting point, not control.
Train it on 50 colors you like, then it generates endlessly in your taste.
Generates palettes in context — brand, website, illustration — not as bare swatches.
One base color in, full palettes and gradients out.
AI palettes generated in context with a website preview.
Classic color wheel tool. Strong for theory-based harmony.
Generates tints, shades and full scales from one color.
Edit and smooth color ramps. Built for design systems.
Palettes generated from real usage frequency data.
Palettes, gradients and CSS export.
Color scales, blending and shade generation.
Palettes, gradients and color resources in one place.
Color systems
9Accessible color scales designed for product UI, with dark mode pairs.
Generates Tailwind-ready 50–950 shade scales from one hex.
Open-source scale set that keeps practical UI legibility front and center.
Shows palettes applied to a full page so you see roles, not swatches.
Adobe's tool for generating palettes by target contrast ratio.
Lyft's tool for algorithmically consistent color systems.
Build and document a full color system with accessibility checks.
Paste a hex, get the full 50–950 Tailwind scale.
Builds palettes with consistent lightness and contrast.
Fonts
14Free, web-optimized, zero licensing headaches for client work.
Free quality faces from Indian Type Foundry. Strong display options.
Self-host open fonts via npm. Removes a third-party request from your site.
Hand-checked free-for-commercial-use fonts plus a webfont generator.
System fonts only, zero load time. Underrated on performance-critical sites.
Included with Creative Cloud. Web and desktop licensing sorted.
Free fonts with the license clearly stated on every page.
Contemporary free typefaces, strong editorial taste.
Experimental libre type foundry. Distinctive display faces.
Open-source type foundry from Italy.
Curated open-source typefaces with usage examples.
Free font downloads, check license per font.
Large archive with clear commercial-use filters.
Enormous archive. Quality varies, licenses vary more.
Type tools
13Real pairings in use on live sites, with the fonts named.
Build a modular scale and copy the CSS out.
Fluid type and space scales that interpolate between breakpoints.
Suggests pairings by contrast. Good for breaking a habit.
Identify a font from a screenshot a client sent you.
Google Font pairings shown in context.
Randomly surfaces fonts to break your habits.
Drop in a font file, see every feature it supports.
Preview your text in every font installed on your machine.
Build and export a full type system.
Generate clamp-based responsive type in one step.
Browser extension to identify fonts on any page.
Free typography education from Google. Genuinely good.
Gradients
8Handpicked gradients with instant CSS copy.
180 linear gradients, free, CSS and PNG.
Adjust gradient angle and stops visually.
Simple generator with a clean interface.
Community-submitted gradients, updated daily.
Generates SVG blobs, waves and mesh backgrounds.
Free SVG background generator, many styles.
Mesh gradient generator with CSS output.
Design systems
46 resourcesPlatform guidelines
3Production systems to study
17Best-written content and UX guidance of any public system. Steal the writing rules.
Deep documentation on tokens, grid and accessibility. The template for enterprise systems.
Strong on foundations and contribution process.
Rigorous on scale, density and platform adaptation.
Dense data components and page-level patterns beyond simple primitives.
Well-documented, strongly opinionated, actively maintained.
Enterprise-scale system with deep accessibility docs.
Clear foundations and a well-argued component rationale.
Strong on accessibility and content guidance.
Excellent token architecture and inclusive design docs.
Practical component docs with do and don't examples.
Cross-platform system covering web, iOS and Android.
Enterprise system with clear contribution guidance.
Smaller, readable system. Good model if you're building one.
Modern, minimal, tightly integrated with their product.
Brand-led system where identity drives every decision.
Rigorous brand and digital guidelines in one place.
Component libraries
16Copy-and-own React components on Radix and Tailwind. Your developers already use it.
Unstyled, accessible behavior for menus, dialogs and the rest. Style is yours.
Worth knowing as a designer — its spacing and color scales shape how devs build.
Where built components live. Ask for a link before you sign off on a build.
The most widely used React component library.
Accessible React components with a clean styling API.
100+ React components and hooks, very complete.
Modern React library built on Tailwind, formerly NextUI.
Unstyled accessible components from the Tailwind team.
Ark UI plus Panda CSS. Works across React, Vue and Solid.
Unstyled primitives from the MUI and Radix teams.
Still everywhere. Worth knowing what your dev inherits.
CSS-only framework, no JavaScript dependency.
Material Design components for Vue.
Headless components sharing one API across frameworks.
React components for dashboards and charts.
Directories
3Browsable index of public design systems with side-by-side comparison.
Pick a component, see how forty different systems solved it.
Gallery of public design systems plus books and talks. Treat it as an archive — articles stop around 2020.
Tokens & tooling
7Turn design tokens into code for every platform.
The Figma plugin for managing design tokens properly.
Design system documentation and code generation.
Design system docs your whole team can edit.
Sync design tokens from Figma into your codebase.
Visual regression testing for Storybook components.
Design system platform connecting design and code.
Accessibility
27 resourcesDesign-time checks
9Figma plugin for contrast, color-blind simulation, focus order and touch targets.
Shows a color pair through many vision conditions. Persuasive in client reviews.
Test your whole palette against itself at once. Catches problems before they ship.
The standard fast pass/fail check. AA needs 4.5:1 for body text.
Desktop app with an eyedropper. Works on anything on screen.
Figma plugin for instant contrast checking between layers.
Figma plugin covering contrast, color blindness and touch targets.
Chrome extension simulating eight types of color blindness.
Generates palettes that pass contrast by default.
Page audits
10Overlays issues onto the live page so you see which element actually fails.
Browser extension covering WCAG 2.2 with almost no false positives.
Five-minute triage plus a guided full assessment. Free and open source.
Built into Chrome. Bundles accessibility with performance and SEO in one run.
Free browser toolbar simulating disabilities and screen readers.
Detailed WCAG audit extension from accessibility specialists.
Free checker with clear remediation guidance.
Ongoing monitoring across a whole site.
Browser that shows multiple viewports plus built-in a11y checks.
Shows heading structure. Fastest way to catch broken hierarchy.
Standards & practice
8The actual criteria, filterable by level. Cite this in scope documents.
How to build each common component accessibly, with the reasoning shown.
Community checklist and plain-language guides.
Free reference on screen readers, ARIA and WCAG.
Articles and their annual analysis of the top million homepages.
Seven principles, each with practical examples.
Component-by-component questions to ask instead of ticking boxes.
Free Windows screen reader. Test your work with it.
Research & testing
38 resourcesBehavior analytics
13Free heatmaps and session recordings, no session cap. Best value on this whole page.
Heatmaps, recordings, surveys and funnels. Free tier covers 35 sessions a day.
Product analytics plus session replay, open source and self-hostable.
Privacy-first analytics, no cookie banner required.
Open-source, self-hostable, GDPR-friendly analytics.
Simple privacy-focused analytics with no personal data.
Full-featured analytics you can host yourself.
Session replay with automatic frustration detection.
Session replay tied to front-end error tracking.
Replay and heatmaps for both web and mobile apps.
Heatmaps plus friction scoring on forms.
Product analytics for funnels and retention.
Event analytics with a usable free tier.
Usability testing
13Test a Figma prototype with real people and get numbers back. Free plan for small studies.
Five-second tests, first-click, card sorting and preference tests. Cheap and quick.
Card sorting and tree testing. Use before you commit to a navigation structure.
Large recruited panel and moderated sessions. Enterprise pricing.
Full research suite with a usable free tier for solo work.
Prototype testing with heatmaps and full session paths.
Combines surveys, interviews and prototype tests.
Steady drip of short user tests on a subscription.
Moderated and unmoderated testing with a recruited panel.
Usability testing plus product analytics together.
Task-based testing on live sites and prototypes.
Fast audience testing on concepts and copy.
In-product micro-surveys and replays.
Synthesis
7Store, tag and quote research so findings don't die in a Google Doc.
Good enough research repository for a solo practice. Start here before paying.
Purpose-built research repository with tagging and clips.
AI-assisted transcription and analysis of research calls.
Records calls and clips the important moments automatically.
Edit video by editing the transcript. Excellent for highlight reels.
AI-assisted analysis and synthesis of research data.
Surveys & feedback
5Conversational forms with high completion rates.
Free unlimited forms. Notion-like editor.
Free, fast, everyone already knows how to use it.
Message testing with a targeted B2B audience.
Research ops: recruiting, scheduling, incentives, repository.
Learning
46 resourcesFoundations
10The 10 usability heuristics plus free study guides by theme. The canonical source.
Fitts, Hick, Miller, Jakob, Tesler. Learn these and you win client arguments.
Visual design rules for people who aren't visual designers. Highest return per hour.
The definitive e-commerce UX research. Free articles alone are worth the visit.
Long-running publication on web standards and craft.
Google's guidance on performance, accessibility and modern web.
The reference for how the web actually works.
Quantitative UX research and statistics, done rigorously.
Practitioner articles on process and method.
Free archive on usability testing and research method.
Patterns & checklists
11Component-by-component do and don't lists. Run before you hand anything over.
Named interface patterns with the problem each one solves.
UX case studies as scrollable comics. The easiest way to make principles stick.
Rules and defaults for spacing, color and type when you have no art director.
Catalog of dark patterns. Know them so you don't ship them.
Principles for designing products that respect attention.
Toolkit for thinking through consequences before shipping.
Process and craft writing from a strong design org.
Engineering and design writing. Their craft bar is high.
Annual data on how the web is actually built.
Named patterns with the psychology behind each one.
Reading
8Long-form articles on design and front-end. Consistently technical and current.
Daily industry writing. Skim the newsletter, read maybe one in ten.
Curated UX case studies. Use these as the template for your own portfolio.
Design journalism with a business angle.
Architecture and design news. Broadens the visual diet.
Product, interior and industrial design daily.
Advertising and branding criticism from the UK.
Graphic design history and commentary.
Courses
11Structured beginner-to-job path with a recognized credential.
Broad course library with certificates. Affordable annual membership.
Career-focused guides — portfolios, job hunting, pricing your work. Not a tool directory despite the name.
Erik Kennedy's course. The visual design gaps most people have.
Deep interface design craft. Expensive, widely respected.
Mentored UX courses with structured feedback.
Job-guarantee UX programme with mentorship.
Live bootcamps on UI, UX and design systems.
Deep front-end courses. Useful for designers who code.
Interactive coding courses you can edit as they play.
Design and SwiftUI courses in one place.
Books & talks
6Krug's usability classic. Still the fastest useful read.
Norman's foundational text on affordances and signifiers.
Brad Frost's book, free to read online. The design system canon.
Weekly conversation on craft and process.
Jen Simmons on CSS layout. Changes how you think about the grid.
Design business, pricing and client work.
Handoff & delivery
21 resourcesSpecs for developers
7Inspect, tokens and code snippets in the file. Replaced most standalone handoff tools.
Still better for versioned, organized spec delivery to an external dev team.
Converts Figma into React, Vue or HTML code.
Design to production front-end code with your own components.
Figma to code plus a visual CMS on top.
Open and inspect design files without the design tool.
Handoff and versioning across Figma, Sketch and XD.
Talking to clients
9Record a three-minute walkthrough. Beats any written spec for a small business client.
Annotated screenshots and short screen recordings. Makes feedback rounds shorter.
Proposal and presentation decks that don't look like a template.
Screen recording that looks produced with no editing.
Turns a click-through into a written step-by-step guide.
Interactive product demos from a screen recording.
Clickable walkthroughs for onboarding and handover.
Mac recorder with automatic zoom and smooth cursor motion.
Open-source alternative to Loom.
Project & client management
5Issue tracking your developers will actually enjoy using.
Simple boards. Easy for non-technical clients to follow.
Project tracker with AI-assisted triage.
Proposals, contracts, invoicing and time tracking for freelancers.
Commission-free freelance platform with a built-in portfolio.
Portfolio & career
24 resourcesPortfolio platforms
7Clean text-first professional profile. Popular with designers.
One link page that actually looks designed.
WordPress-based portfolio system built by designers.
Free with any Creative Cloud plan. Syncs from Behance.
Portfolio host aimed at photographers and visual designers.
Long-running, simple portfolio builder.
Straightforward portfolio sites with no code.
Portfolio references
3Job boards
7Design roles posted alongside portfolios.
UX-only listings, no recruiter noise.
UK-focused creative and design roles.
Curated creative talent network.
Matches you to roles instead of making you search.
Large remote job board with a design section.
Startup jobs with salary and equity shown upfront.
Freelance & business
7Plain-language client contract template. Free, widely used.
Low-fee international payments. Practical for overseas clients.
Indian payment gateway with invoicing and payment links.
Payments and invoicing. The developer default worldwide.
Vetted freelance network. Hard to get in, better rates.
Free invoicing and accounting for small practices.
Time tracking that turns into invoices.