Design is an important aspect in creating a product. As a developers, we may have designers create figma files of what we need to build. But if you're working on a personal project or are learning how to create better designs, finding inspiration for them may be hard.
Creating your own designs may be hard, but there are plenty of great websites / platforms you can visit in order to find some inspiration for the design of your apps. Here are the four places I like to go to find inspiration for designs.
1. Dribbble
This is my all time favorite website to search for design inspiration. There are a lot of talented designers that post their work here. You can just simply search for an application you're trying to make like "Social Media Application" or "Form" and boom a whole bunch of designs for that search.
What's nice is if you really like a designers work, you can reach out to them and hire them.
2. Frontendmentor.io
Probably an underrated pick here but Frontendmentor is an awesome site for developers of all levels looking to practice their frontend skills. The designs of the websites here are super awesome and are given to you. If you have premium version you can even get the figma files for every challenge to get develop to the exact pixel.
All in all, the free version can be enough for you just want to start working on coding out the designs. Otherwise, I like the designs of the challenges and even incorporated some of the design elements onto my own personal website. My not-so-shameless plug here.
3. Pinterest
I'm sure you know of Pinterest. Pinterest has been used to find inspiration and ideas for a wide range of things. Previously, I used to get food recipes from there. But, there are a lot of designs that you can find there as well.
Just try out the search and boom a bunch of inspiration for you.
4. Instagram
Social media can be addicting, but if you cater your follows to UI folks you can definitely see some cool UI inspiration. One of the pages I like is @uixbuzz. You can also filter your searches if you go on search and type in #ui or #landingpages. I would recommend finding some posts you like and going on the author's page.
I hope you learned something here today. These are the four places I go to when I want to look at awesome design and find some inspiration for my personal projects. I would say that I use dribbble the most but I have also gotten inspiration from all the other sites. If there are other sites you love, comment them down below. Other than that, have a good one.