Back in my day 🧓, when I was looking to start my next web design project, I used to pick up these lovely assemblages of web design inspirations 📚. But these days, we just get to STAY ON THE WEB TO GET INSPIRATION FOR THE WEB?!?! 🤯 Whoddathunk?? 😋

Here are my Top 5 🖐 Favorite places on the web to get some heckin’ dope inspiration 💡:

1. dribbble 🏀

Hands down, the ultimate inspo. center for me!! Now, with that said, so many of these designs are way too super-duper cutting edge and so the designs are often not practical for a mom-and-pop bakery in the suburbs, but they are certainly a great tool to get the brain 🧠 churning out some ideas. It’s great to get inspired from these and then find a happy medium between “Is this another WIX website?? 🙄” and “why is the animation effect on my cursor causing my eyes to roll to the back of my skull?? 😵”.

2. awwwards 🏆

These designs are winners for a reason. As opposed to dribbble which normally just shows design ‘shots’ that may not actually be live sites, the awwwards features sites that are actually real and live and therefore, often have cool animations 🎞 to check out!

3. Bēhance ⎯

Let’s be real, I still have no idea how to pronounce Bēhance… But just like dribbble, there are loads of design projects to look at and some nice filters for searching, like searching by color 🌈!

4. WOW – WEB 🟡

For all of my brutalism fans, this is my go-to. I thrive off of inspo. like this even if I’m not making an actual brutalist theme. The thing with inspo. is that it really only has to get the brain 🧠 juices 🧃flowing. Whatever gets you inspired and in the moment is going to be what helps you with your next project. Inspo. doesn’t have to be something that you would copy line for line, shape 🟢 for shape 🔺. Let it be your springboard !

5. Minimal.Gallery 🔲

And, of course, for all of my minimalism fans, voila! Nuff said! 😉

True creative flow happens when we are inspired 💡. Yes, sometimes glancing at a design and “stealing” one little component will help us get the job done in a pinch, but ideally ☝️, we become experts at visualizing design by noting what we do and do like in examples, by noting what works and what’s atrocious, and by layering our sources of inspo. to create our own personal design flair! Happy designing!

If you’re still in a pickle 🥒 for a design or are looking for someone else to do it for you, give me a shout below!

As a bonus, I thought that this mini collection of ugly 90s webpages from Adam Hammond was pretty hilarious!! 😆