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DIELINE

DIELINE

The Leading Source for Packaging Innovation and Insight

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Openscreen: free Screen Recording

Openscreen: free Screen Recording

Create stunning demos for free. Open-source, no subscriptions, no watermarks, and free for commercial use. An alternative to Screen Studio. - siddharthvaddem/openscreen

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Open Foundry

Open Foundry

Curated free fonts for designers and developers, with creator attribution.

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Bye Bye Paywall - Remove Paywalls

Bye Bye Paywall - Remove Paywalls

Bypass paywalls to access research and articles for design inspiration and development insights.

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Micro Review

Always pay for good journalism!

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Signal Culture

Signal Culture

Signal Culture encourages creation of new work, building of community, and connection to history in the field of experimental media art by providing artists, researchers, and innovators with residencies, resources, and exhibition opportunities.

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Free Bespoke Sewing Patterns | FreeSewing

Free Bespoke Sewing Patterns | FreeSewing

Open-source sewing patterns and tools for creating custom-fit garments.

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Swishy - AI Motion Designer & Animator

Swishy - AI Motion Designer & Animator

Create professional motion graphics and animations with AI. The smart alternative to After Effects for motion designers, marketers, and creators.

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Nuvotion Visuals

Nuvotion Visuals

Create audio-reactive visuals for live performances with this free, powerful tool.

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Sketch Tools

Sketch Tools

Collection of various tools including geo and particles 🚀

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yoink

yoink

Yoink samples of audio from YouTube by text search

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Micro Review

Recently went paid only. Never tested it, but for now I’m keeping it in this list because the idea is awesome!

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Shader Gradient

Shader Gradient

Create beautiful moving gradients on Framer, Figma and React

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TekDetek Video Tool

TekDetek Video Tool

A curated collection of free, high-quality UI kits, wireframes, and design assets for rapid prototyping.

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Pins And Curves

Pins And Curves

Tools for motion designers

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Casberry | Eswar Prasaath — Digital Creative Agency

Casberry | Eswar Prasaath — Digital Creative Agency

Casberry is a digital creative agency by Eswar Prasaath. I craft digital experiences, apps, and websites bridging functional code and organic design.

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Efecto — Where Humans & Robots Design Together

Efecto — Where Humans & Robots Design Together

The design tool where AI agents are first-class. Artboards, layers, auto-layout, 65 MCP tools. Free.

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Grainrad

Grainrad

Free WebGPU-powered ASCII, dithering, and retro effects at 60fps

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Design Resources · A curated list of the best design resources

Design Resources · A curated list of the best design resources

A curated list of the best design resources

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The Useless Web

The Useless Web

The Useless Web Button... just press it and find where it takes you. The perfect button for the bored, or those looking to find useless sites online!

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Mobbin — UI & UX design inspiration for mobile & web apps

Mobbin — UI & UX design inspiration for mobile & web apps

Save hours of UI\UX research with our library of 400,000+ fully searchable mobile web app screenshots.

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resourcesfor.design

resourcesfor.design

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lottielab.com

lottielab.com

A motion design tool for product teams to create, edit, and ship Lottie animations for apps and websites.

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fonts.google.com

fonts.google.com

A library of free and open-source font families.

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Diode — Build, program, and simulate hardware

Diode — Build, program, and simulate hardware

Diode is a 3D hardware simulator capable of simulating arduinos, integrated circuits, capacitors, transistors and much more.

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PixelCrash

PixelCrash

PixelCrash is a web-based video creation and editing application for desktop and tablet devices that allows users to upload, record, layer, and export their video projects in WebM format.

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Get the glitch look without installing plugins or datamoshing bytes in your videofiles.

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BP&O - Branding, Packaging and Opinion

BP&O - Branding, Packaging and Opinion

Logo, brand identity, packaging and graphic design blog, daily design inspiration, review, news and opinion from Richard Baird.

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Constraint Systems

Constraint Systems

Alternative interfaces for editing and creating images and text.

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Micro Review

An eclectic compendium of visual tools. Bonus: most of them are mobile friendly 📱

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Tooltrace

Tooltrace

Custom foam cutouts for your tools

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BabyTrack - Blob Tracking Effects

BabyTrack - Blob Tracking Effects

Create Blob Tracking Style Visual Effects in Your Browser

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Micro Review

Popular faux tracking markers in your footage made popular by TikTok and IG!

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Velvetyne

Velvetyne

Libre fonts for everyone

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BIOM Tool by Antlii

BIOM Tool by Antlii

BIOM TOOL is a compact web tool built with p5.js, created as a small experiment in visual growth.

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