Design Job boards & Opportunities: 

• Design Gigs for Good: A free job board for design opportunities with a social impact.

• AIGA design job board: https://designjobs.aiga.org

  • Local to D.C.: https://dc.aiga.org/jobs/

• Girlz by Design regularly lists job opportunities for high school and college students here.

Resources for Educators & Educating Yourself:

• Design Thinking for Educators Toolkit created by Co Designing Schools 

• A free course on equity in design by Equity Meets Design. 

• Decentering Whiteness in Design History: a collection of resources to decolonize your design curriculum.  

• MIT EdX Game Design Workshop Activity.

• Code Academy: Free and easy resources to quickly learn basic HTML skills.https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-html 

• Helpful guide on how to use HTML https://www.websiteplanet.com/blog/html-guide-beginners/

• The Design Thinking Bootleg from the Stanford d. School

Design Organizations We Love

• The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) http://welcometocup.org/

• Where are the Black Designers? https://wherearetheblackdesigners.com

• The Anacostia Arts Center

• Relative Opacity: a digital safe haven for women and non-binary designers of color who are in need of a design community.

• Art Hoe Collective: a safe space for creatives of color.

• The Black Artists and Designers Guild

• Hexagon UX http://hexagonux.com

• A directory of women, trans and non-binary friends working with animation and motion graphics: http://www.panimation.tv

Events: 

• SEAM Design Thinking Conference: https://www.runtheworld.today/app/invitation/17990

• Virtual events at the National Museum for Women in the Arts:https://nmwa.org/whats-on/calendar/

• Virtual events at the Hirshorn: https://hirshhorn.si.edu/events/

• Artsy Viewing Rooms: https://www.artsy.net/viewing-rooms

Accessibility in Design: 

• https://www.cooperhewitt.org/design-access/

• https://www.openstylelab.org

• https://mismatch.design/category/resources/

• https://wearecolorblind.com

• https://www.a11yproject.com

Free Design Platforms & Tools: 

Platforms for Creating: 

• Gimp:Free open source software for editing images. (Can also be paired with a drawing tablet.)

• Pixlr: Open source photo editing software with varying applications.

• Mock Flow: A free tool for mapping out UI ideas.  

• Figma: A free collaborative interface design tool.  

  • Library of unique, crowd-sourced plugins for graphic and web design on Figma:https://www.figma.com/community/explore 

• Blender: A free tool for 3D modelling and creation. (Updated recently!)

  • You can follow the Blender developers here: https://twitter.com/BlenderDev 

• Mapbox Studio: A free platform to design and customize your own maps.

• Miro: A free platform which has templates for moodboards, mind maps, etc. 

• https://crello.com/ A free tool to create customizable assets with design templates.

• https://inkscape.org/ A free drawing tool. 

• https://www.designer.io/en/ Gravit designer is a free full-featured vector graphic design app.

Design Thinking: 

• https://www.designabetterbusiness.tools

• https://designsprintkit.withgoogle.com/resources/overview

Fonts:

• https://www.dafont.com/

• https://fonts.google.com/

• https://usemodify.com/

• https://www.fontfabric.com/free-fonts/

• https://www.fontsquirrel.com/

• For font inspiration: https://fontsinuse.com

Icons:

• https://icons8.com/icons

• https://shapedfonts.com/iconclub/

• https://lordicon.com/free-icons 

• https://thenounproject.com/

• https://ionicons.com/

• https://simpleicons.org/

Images:

• https://unsplash.com/

• https://pixabay.com/

Videos:

• https://coverr.co/

• https://pixabay.com/

• https://www.videezy.com/
  https://mixkit.co/

• https://www.videvo.net/stock-video-footage/

Music & Sound 

• https://www.free-stock-music.com/

Animation:

• Moovly (free with an .edu account)

• Blob maker: https://www.blobmaker.app/ 

• Wave maker: https://getwaves.io/ 

• Flip Anim: an online flipbook

• Free tutorials on motion design: https://www.schoolofmotion.com

Illustrations:

• https://www.drawkit.io/#products

• https://www.openpeeps.com/

• https://www.opendoodles.com/

• https://illlustrations.co/

• https://blush.design/

• https://www.humaaans.com/

• https://undraw.co/illustrations

• https://lukaszadam.com/illustrations

Vectors:

• https://pixabay.com/

• https://www.vecteezy.com/

Backgrounds/ Patterns:

• http://thepatternlibrary.com/

• https://www.freepik.com/free-photos-vectors/pattern-background

Colors:

• https://coolors.co/palettes/trending

• https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel

Mockups:

• https://smartmockups.com/

• https://uispace.net/?filter=psd&page=1

• https://www.screely.com/

• https://www.mockupworld.co/free/category/apple-watch/

• https://www.ls.graphics/scene-creators

• https://www.uplabs.com/search?q=FREE

HTML / CSS Templates:

• https://www.styleshout.com/free-templates/

• https://freehtml5.co/

• https://tobiasahlin.com/moving-letters/

• https://gradientbuttons.colorion.co/

• https://animate.style/

For inspiration: 

• Spotify Design, articles and blog posts from developers and designers at Spotify. https://spotify.design/ 

• Google Design, articles and blog posts from developers and designers at Google.https://design.google/ 

• Dribbble. A social media platform for viewing examples of design work. Sections for: animation, branding, print, product design, and typography. https://dribbble.com/ 

• Tutorials and free lessons on https://www.educative.io/)

  • Ex: Designing Instagram: https://www.educative.io/courses/grokking-the-system-design-interview/m2yDVZnQ8l

• The blog of Material Design, which is an open-source supportive system for designing app elements. Interesting examples and resources. 

• Canva’s Free Design School: https://designschool.canva.com/ 

• Awwwards.com: A site for viewing website design examples that are rated by interesting metrics. 

• Inspiration for motion design: https://motionographer.com

Help us build something !

Submit open source resources and job opportunities for students below