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.
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
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.
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:
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:
Fonts:
For font inspiration: https://fontsinuse.com
Icons:
Images:
Videos:
Music & Sound
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:
Vectors:
Backgrounds/ Patterns:
Colors:
Mockups:
HTML / CSS Templates:
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
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