Design Resources
Throughout the course we are going to be using various tools and resources for designers to build our project. To keep everything organized and to also have a place for you to stay organized, we have included all the design resources and assets here for you. You can also use the attached downloadable PDF version
Tools We Will Use:
- Figma
- Concepts Apple Store App ( Sketching option for Mac only, but don’t worry, pen and paper is just fine! We just needed a way to show our sketching process! )
- Color Contrast Analyzer
Individual Figma Files (more on how to use these later in the course!)
- Sketching Resource
- User Flows Resource
- Sitemap Resource
- Wireframes Resource
- Prototyping Resource
- Grids + Spacing Resource
- Typography Resource
- Color Resource
- Forms + UI Elements Resource
- Imagery + Iconography Resource
- Accessibility Resource
- Visual Style Exploration Resource
- Motion Resource
- Microinteractions Resource
- Design System Resource
- Final Compositions Resource
Figma Plugins
- Design Inspo
- Unsplash
- Logo Creator
- Color Search
- Lottie Files
- Image Palette
- Auto Flow
- Sitemap
- Wireframe
- Content Reel
- Lorem ipsum
- Figchat
- Font Scale
- Font Explorer
- Color Palettes
- Color Contrast Checker
- Able – Friction free accessibility
- Pexels
- Remove BG
- Duotones
- Blush
- Illustrations
- Humaaans for Figma
- Streamline Icons
- Feather Icons
- Material Design Icons
- Iconify
- Contrast
- Chart
- Figmotion
- Design Lint
- Master
- Unused Components
Extra Figma Files
- Inspiration
- Figma Inspiration Board
- User Flows
- User Flow Kit
- UX Flowchart kit for Figma
- Sitemaps
- Sitemap Generator
- Wireframes
- Wireframe Component Library
- Ant UX Wireframes
- iOS App Wireframes
- Figma Wireframe Kit
- Fragments iOS Base 1.0 – iOS 14 Wireframe Starter Kit
- Getting Feedback
- Feedback Kit | Want good feedback from your team? Feedback Kit is here to help you ask for the type of feedback …
- Color
- Color Styles
- Imagery + Iconography
- Free 60 illustrations - Surface Pack
- Vector Illustrations
- 1100+ Free Vector Illustrations
- Mobile Design
- Fragments iOS Base 1.0 – iOS 14 Wireframe Starter Kit
- iOS Keyboards
- iOS App Wireframes
- iOS & iPadOS 14 UI Kit for Figma
- iOS/iPadOS 13 Design UI Kit
- Android UI kit
- Design Systems
- Design System Checklist
Extra Articles/Websites + Resources
- Sketching
- Sketching. How to use sketching in your design
- Concepts App • Infinite, Flexible Sketching
- 7 reasons for sketching in UX design
- UI/UX sketching techniques 101. UX design is indeed a complicated…
- Inspiration
- 31 UX Design Inspiration Resources
- Dribbble - Discover the World’s Top Designers & Creative Professionals
- Behance :: Best of Behance
- Pttrns: Mobile Design Patterns
- Panda — The homepage for your favorite websites
- Awwwards - Website Awards - Best Web Design Trends
- User Flows
- What Are User Flows In UX Design? (A full beginner’s guide)
- User flow is the new wireframe. An illustrated guide on the different…
- Sitemaps
- Free Sitemap Generator
- Sitemaps - The Beginner’s Guide - UXmentor.me
- Professional approach to designing a visual sitemap
- Wireframes
- How to Create a Wireframe - A Beginner’s Guide to Wireframing
- Getting Feedback
- How to give and receive great design feedback
- Grids + Spacing
- Spacing, Grids and Layouts
- The Comprehensive 8pt Grid Guide. Start your UI project right with this…
- Typography
- Google Fonts
- Color
- Colorable
- Coolors - The super fast color schemes generator!
- Adobe Color: Color wheel, a color palette generator
- Colormind - the AI powered color palette generator
- Imagery + Iconography
- Noun Project: Free Icons for Everything
- Blush: Illustrations for everyone
- Material Icons
- Accessibility
- Colorable
- Contrast Checker
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
- Color Contrast Analyzer
- Design Patterns
- Design patterns
- Mobile Design
- Human Interface Guidelines - Design
- Android Developers
- Visual Style + Exploration
- Atomic Design Methodology
- What is Visual Design?
- 5 Principles of Visual Design in UX
- Motion
- The ultimate guide to proper use of animation in UX
- Creating Usability with Motion: The UX in Motion Manifesto
- The importance of motion for UX design
- Microinteractions
- How to use microinteractions in 2020 (uses, examples, tips)
- Better UX Through Microinteractions
- Design Systems
- A comprehensive guide to design systems
- Everything you need to know about Design Systems
- A Collection of Design System Resources
- Design Systems Handbook
- Design Systems articles on building and maintaining design systems
Section 1: GETTING STARTED - Sketching, Inspiration, User Flows
Getting Ready For This Section
Throughout the section, your challenge is to take the information you learn and actually applying them to your own design or to modify the project we are working on to make it “your own”. We’re excited to see what you create at the end of this thing! If you have any questions, please use the # design channel in our Discord community!
Tools
Individual Figma Files
Figma Plugins
Extra Figma Files
- Inspiration
- Figma Inspiration Board
- User Flows
- User Flow Kit
- UX Flowchart kit for Figma
- Sitemaps
- Sitemap Generator
Extra Articles/Websites + Resources
- Sketching
- Sketching. How to use sketching in your design
- Concepts App • Infinite, Flexible Sketching
- 7 reasons for sketching in UX design
- UI/UX sketching techniques 101. UX design is indeed a complicated…
- Inspiration
- 31 UX Design Inspiration Resources
- Dribbble - Discover the World’s Top Designers & Creative Professionals
- Behance :: Best of Behance
- Pttrns: Mobile Design Patterns
- Panda — The homepage for your favorite websites
- Awwwards - Website Awards - Best Web Design Trends
- User Flows
- What Are User Flows In UX Design? (A full beginner’s guide)
- User flow is the new wireframe. An illustrated guide on the different…
- Sitemaps
- Free Sitemap Generator
- Sitemaps - The Beginner’s Guide - UXmentor.me
- Professional approach to designing a visual sitemap
User Flows
Getting Started With Figma
Starting the next couple of videos, we will begin to use a valuable tool of a designer: Figma
For a few of you, this may be the first time you have heard of this tool so we have included some helpful guides to get your account setup (you will need to create a free account online for you to use it) .
We know that getting started with a new tool can be tough but trust us, Figma is really user friendly. We have compiled some resources for you to get started using Figma today. We also included a couple of links that outline how you can access and duplicate Figma resources for this course that we provide for you.
Getting Started
Using the Figma Desktop App (although you can stick with the web and use that as well)
Accessing and Duplicating the Course Figma Resources (how to make the files we give you into your own)
Endorsements On LinkedIn
If you are looking to improve your LinkedIn profile and have others endorse your skills, we have a private ZTM LinkedIn group here . LinkedIn allows you to have recruiters message you with lots of job opportunities. You can join the group by clicking on “LinkedIn Group” and then go ahead and endorse some of the member’s skills (other people will do the same for you as they join).
If you have any questions, reach out in our private Discord chat community in the #job-hunting channel!
UPDATE!!! Zero to Mastery is officially a recognized school! What does this mean for you? It means that you can add it as an educational institution on LinkedIn as part of your profile to wow those employers (as your education history) . Check it out here . To add it to your profile:
Step 1: Go to personal LinkedIn profile
Step 2: Scroll down to the Education section
Step 3: Click the +
Step 4: Type in Zero To Mastery Academy
Section 2: EXPLORE & ITERATE - Wireframes, Prototyping, and Feedback
Getting Ready For This Section
Throughout the section, your challenge is to take the information you learn and actually applying them to your own design or to modify the project we are working on to make it “your own”. We’re excited to see what you create at the end of this thing! If you have any questions, please use the # design channel in our Discord community!
Tools
Individual Figma Files
Figma Plugins
Extra Figma Files
- Wireframes
- Wireframe Component Library
- Ant UX Wireframes
- iOS App Wireframes
- Figma Wireframe Kit
- Fragments iOS Base 1.0 – iOS 14 Wireframe Starter Kit
- Getting Feedback
- Feedback Kit | Want good feedback from your team? Feedback Kit is here to help you ask for the type of feedback …
Extra Articles/Websites + Resources
- Wireframes
- How to Create a Wireframe - A Beginner’s Guide to Wireframing
- Getting Feedback
- How to give and receive great design feedback
Section 3: VISUAL DESIGN - Design Theory + Accessibility
Getting Ready For This Section
Throughout the section, your challenge is to take the information you learn and actually applying them to your own design or to modify the project we are working on to make it “your own”. We’re excited to see what you create at the end of this thing! If you have any questions, please use the # design channel in our Discord community!
Tools
Individual Figma Files
- Grids + Spacing Resource
- Typography Resource
- Color Resource
- Forms + UI Elements Resource
- Imagery + Iconography Resource
- Accessibility Resource
Figma Plugins
- Logo Creator
- Color Search
- Image Palette
- Content Reel
- Lorem ipsum
- Font Scale
- Font Explorer
- Color Palettes
- Color Contrast Checker
- Able – Friction free accessibility
- Pexels
- Remove BG
- Duotones
- Blush
- Illustrations
- Humaaans for Figma
- Streamline Icons
- Feather Icons
- Material Design Icons
- Iconify
- Contrast
Extra Figma Files
- Color
- Color Styles
- Imagery + Iconography
- Free 60 illustrations - Surface Pack
- Vector Illustrations
- 1100+ Free Vector Illustrations
Extra Articles/Websites + Resources
- Grids + Spacing
- Spacing, Grids and Layouts
- The Comprehensive 8pt Grid Guide. Start your UI project right with this…
- Typography
- Google Fonts
- Color
- Colorable
- Coolors - The super fast color schemes generator!
- Adobe Color: Color wheel, a color palette generator
- Colormind - the AI powered color palette generator
- Imagery + Iconography
- Noun Project: Free Icons for Everything
- Blush: Illustrations for everyone
- Material Icons
- Accessibility
- Colorable
- Contrast Checker
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
- Color Contrast Analyzer
Section 4: DESIGN EXPLORATION - Application Design + Design Systems
Getting Ready For This Section
Throughout the section, your challenge is to take the information you learn and actually applying them to your own design or to modify the project we are working on to make it “your own”. We’re excited to see what you create at the end of this thing! If you have any questions, please use the # design channel in our Discord community!
Tools
Individual Figma Files
Figma Plugins
- Design Inspo
- Unsplash
- Color Search
- Lottie Files
- Image Palette
- Content Reel
- Lorem ipsum
- Font Scale
- Font Explorer
- Color Palettes
- Pexels
- Remove BG
- Duotones
- Blush
- Illustrations
- Humaaans for Figma
- Streamline Icons
- Feather Icons
- Material Design Icons
- Iconify
- Contrast
- Chart
- Figmotion
Extra Figma Files
- Mobile Design
- Fragments iOS Base 1.0 – iOS 14 Wireframe Starter Kit
- iOS Keyboards
- iOS App Wireframes
- iOS & iPadOS 14 UI Kit for Figma
- iOS/iPadOS 13 Design UI Kit
- Android UI kit
|Extra Articles/Websites + Resources
- Design Patterns
- Design patterns
- Mobile Design
- Human Interface Guidelines - Design
- Android Developers
- Visual Style + Exploration
- Atomic Design Methodology
- What is Visual Design?
- 5 Principles of Visual Design in UX
- Motion
- The ultimate guide to proper use of animation in UX
- Creating Usability with Motion: The UX in Motion Manifesto
- The importance of motion for UX design
- Microinteractions
- How to use microinteractions in 2020 (uses, examples, tips)
- Better UX Through Microinteractions
Section 5: PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER – Design Systems and Final Compositions
Getting Ready For This Section
Throughout the section, your challenge is to take the information you learn and actually applying them to your own design or to modify the project we are working on to make it “your own”. We’re excited to see what you create at the end of this thing! If you have any questions, please use the # design channel in our Discord community!
Tools
Individual Figma Files
- Sketching Resource
- User Flows Resource
- Sitemap Resource
- Wireframes Resource
- Prototyping Resource
- Grids + Spacing Resource
- Typography Resource
- Color Resource
- Forms + UI Elements Resource
- Imagery + Iconography Resource
- Accessibility Resource
- Visual Style Exploration Resource
- Motion Resource
- Microinteractions Resource
- Design System Resource
- Final Compositions Resource
Figma Plugins
- Unsplash
- Color Search
- Lottie Files
- Content Reel
- Lorem ipsum
- Font Scale
- Font Explorer
- Color Palettes
- Color Contrast Checker
- Able – Friction free accessibility
- Pexels
- Remove BG
- Duotones
- Streamline Icons
- Feather Icons
- Material Design Icons
- Iconify
- Figmotion
- Design Lint
- Master
- Unused Components
Extra Figma Files
- Design Systems
- Design System Checklist
Extra Articles/Websites + Resources
- Design Systems
- A comprehensive guide to design systems
- Everything you need to know about Design Systems
- A Collection of Design System Resources
- Design Systems Handbook
- Design Systems articles on building and maintaining design systems
Bonus: Bootstrap, Templates, And Building Your Startup Landing Page
Free Resources For Our Project
In the next couple of videos we will be building our own Startup Landing Page! Although you can follow along and copy what I do, you will also have the ability to create your own versions! I have gathered all the free resources that you can use to build your own website here: https://zerotomastery.io/resources