Student Starter
A solid starter kit for design students filled with tools, inspiration, and resources to help you learn, build, and keep projects moving.
Design school can throw a lot at you. New software, big ideas, group critiques, and a growing pile of deadlines. It’s exciting and overwhelming all at once—and you’re probably googling way more than anyone expects.
We gathered a collection of solid resources that help you learn faster, stay inspired, and make your work look better without spending money you do not have. These are the kinds of sites, tools, and references that keep you moving when the ideas stall out. The places you go when you need a spark, a mockup, a font, or just a reminder that great work starts with exploration.
Nothing fancy, just the practical stuff that helps you get better at your craft. Check back often. We’ll keep updating this list as new tools drop and better stuff comes along.
Domestika
Expand your creative capabilities with a wide range of online courses, embracing everything from traditional painting to digital illustration, led by industry experts.
Skillshare
Learn new skills and connect with other creatives around the world. Thousands of classes available to help you reach your goals.
LinkedIn Learning
Online learning platform offering a vast library of professional development courses across business, technology, and creative fields.
Material Design
An adaptable design system offering comprehensive guidelines for digital experiences, emphasizing usability across devices and platforms.
Laws of UX
Unlocking the secrets of psychology for designers is made possible through a dynamic resource that curates the most relevant heuristics to user experience design.
Figma
Discover a comprehensive platform perfect for website, UI, product, and interface design, essential for anyone stepping into the digital design realm.
Adobe Creative Cloud
A comprehensive suite of creative software with advanced design tools and time-saving generative AI features.
Awwwards
A platform recognizing and promoting web design and development excellence, offering insights into current trends, educational content, and a global award system.
Behance
A global platform to showcase your work, discover creative inspiration, and connect with talented designers.
Mockups Design
Explore a diverse collection of free mockup templates that have been professionally developed and classified for simple access. An ideal resource for presenting work in a real-world setting.
Texturelabs
Explore a vast library of free, high-res textures for any project. From grungy walls to cosmic skies, add depth and dimension with expert tutorials.
Ezgif
Browser toolkit for quick GIF and small video edits: convert video to GIF, crop, resize, optimize and add simple effects with live previews and fast exports.
Pexels
High-quality, royalty-free photos and videos for your projects. All free, searchable, and tagged for easy discovery.
Unsplash
An extensive library of high-quality, royalty-free photos that can be used for personal or commercial projects, shared and enjoyed by a vibrant community of creators.
ChatGPT
Studio minded conversational AI that sparks directions, polishes tone, and generates on brand copy and imagery via DALL·E, Sora, plugins and shared workspaces.
Nano Banana
AI image editing and generation model. Accepts natural language prompts, keeps characters consistent, delivers photo real results, and integrates with Gemini.
QuillBot
AI writing toolkit that rewrites text, checks grammar, summarizes content, spots plagiarism, and generates citations.
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