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Designer Resources

• Lyquix Design Software History

Clients Overview and History:

• 2024 - Henry Hollien
• 2023 - Camilla Kronenwetter
• 2021 - Sara Davidson

🛠 Tools

Design Tools

• Coolors - Color Palate Generator
• Contrast Checker - #1 Accessibility tool
• Color Thief - get a color scheme based on an imported an image
• Image Optim - compress imagery or web in seconds
• Artboard Studio - for mockups
• QR Code Generator - free and SVG format
• TinyURL - URL shortener - Lyquix Account
• WebAIM Color Contrast Checker
• WebAIM Link Contrast Checker

Chrome Extensions

• Go Full Page - Full page screen capture
• Fonts Ninja - Identify fonts from any website
• ColorPick Eyedropper - get a hex code for anything you see online

Figma Plugins

• Sitemap Generator
• Chart & Graph Generator
• Select Layers with Similar Properties
• Placeholder Content
• HTML to Figma
• Font Picker with Preview
• Find and Replace
• Design Annotator
• Checks for Errors and Inconsistencies
• Figmotion - Animation Tool
• Screen and Product Mockups
• Proportional Scale
• Stark - Accessibility Tools
• Component Replacer
• Juliette - Accessible color palettes

Assets

Compilation of Stock Resources including photo, illustrations, vector graphics, videos, patterns, textures, fonts, icons, sounds, and music.

Graphic Assets

• flaticon Lyquix Account
• freepik Lyquix Account
• icons8 Illustrations
• icons8 Icons
• Pixel true No Account
• Creative Market Pay Per Use
• Artboard Studio - Lyquix Account

Stock Photography

• ShutterStock Lyquix Account
• iStockPhoto Lyquix Account
• Unsplash Free
• Pexels Free
• Nappy Free (focus on Black and Brown people)
• Pixabay Free
• FreeImages Free
• Art Resource Fine art stock photo archive
• Negative Space Free
• StockSnap Free

Stock Video

• Vimeo Free
• Videvo Free
• Pexels Free

Other Graphics

• Vector World & Country Maps
• Free SVG Maps

Fonts

• Google Fonts
• Fontfabric
• Font Squirrel
• Beautiful Web Type
• Open Foundry
• The League of Movable Type

💡 Inspiration

Typography

• Fonts in Use
• Type Wolf - Great Weekly Newsletter

Web

• Awwwards
• CSS Winner
• Really Good Emails
• Good Web Design
• Site See
• Landing Folio Landing Pages
• Lapa Ninja Landing Pages

UX/UI

• UX Archive
• Really Good UX
• Good UI

Design (General)

• Muzli
• bookmarks

Branding

• Branding Style Guides
• Brand New

Animations

• Button Animations 1
• Button Animations 2
• Hover Effects
• Screen Lane

📚 Learning

Articles

• UX and Usability Articles from Nielsen Normal Group
• 247 Web Usability Guidelines
• 10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design
• 3 UI's to Avoid
• Design Better Cards
• Figma:
  • Advanced Figma Tips & Tricks
  • Figma: All You Need to Know
  • Figma's Auto Layout Update

Sources

• Stack Skills - Lyquix has account
• Coursera
• UX Collective - Free

Videos

• Figma Tutorial: Variants
• Figma's YouTube channel has a ton of other helpful videos