I know how overwhelming it feels to look for the best design tools out there only to end up confused with so many options. But don’t worry, I looked for the best 100 design tools so that you wouldn’t have to. Whether you are looking for colour or font generators, templates, prototyping & wireframing tools or infographics, I’ve got your back!
Colours, patterns, palettes
1. UI Patterns
UI design patterns. Each pattern comes with fully interactive examples, downloadable source code and can be used on mobile devices.

4. Flat UI colors
Color Palette from Flat UI Theme.

9. ColorZilla
Advanced color and style tools and goodies for web developers and graphic designers.

10. (Un)clrd
(un)clrd is a browser plugin that removes all color information of a given website and turns the entire world wide web into black and white.

14. Adobe Color CC
Create color schemes with the color wheel.

15. ColorDrop
A collection of great looking color palettes.

16. Material Palette
Choose your favorite colors and get your Material Design palette generated and downloadable.
Typography

20. TypeFace app
Font manager for Mac, that helps you pick the perfect font by focusing on quick and accurate font previews.

22. Adobe TypeKit
Typekit partners with the world’s leading type foundries to bring thousands of beautiful fonts to designers.

24. Flipping Typical
Type in some words and they instantly display in the typefaces you have installed.

25. Google Web Fonts Typographic Project
This collaborative project offers inspiration to pair Google fonts together.

26. Fontstruct
A free, easy, online editor for creating modular typefaces.

27. Fontface Ninja
A plugin you can install in your browser to recognize, try and buy any fonts on the Internet.

28. 1001 Fonts
15646 free fonts in 8914 families.

29. Fontflame
The tinder for font pairing.

30. Typewolf
An independent typography resource that helps designers choose the perfect font combination.
Templates

33. Freebiesbug
Hand-picked resources for web designer and developers.

34. Flypixel
A collection of free PSDs, site templates, and other awesome design freebies.

38. Bootstrap Zero
Responsive, open-source templates & themes for Bootstrap 3 & 4.

39. Templated
A collection of CSS, HTML5 & Responsive site templates.

40. Snappa
Design graphics and templates, simple to use with unlimited possibilities.
41. Template Stash (Product Hunt)
A curated collection of best free themes & website templates.

42. Bjango
Design resources that include different kinds of templates.

43. GrapesJS
Open-source, multi-purpose, web builder framework.
Prototyping

45. Origami Studio
A tool for designing modern interfaces, to explore, iterate and test ideas.

52. InVision App
A prototyping, collaboration, and workflow platform for designers.

53. Principle
An animation, interaction and prototyping tool for user interface designers.

55. Just In Mind
All-in-one prototyping tool for web and mobile apps.

60. Sketch App
The ultimate tool for designing user interfaces, websites, and icons.

61. HotGloo
A UX, wireframe and prototyping tool designed to build wireframes for web, mobile and wearables.

62. Savah App
Transform your static screens into code-free, quick interactive prototypes for web and mobile.

63. Pidoco
A collaborative online tool for easily designing interactive wireframes and UI prototypes.
Wireframing

69. Frame Box
Lightweight online tool for creating and sharing mockups.

75. Mockingbird
An online tool that makes it easy for you to create, link together, preview, and share mockups.
A/B Testing

76. Adobe Target
Adobe Target removes the coding and setup hassles of A/B testing, so it’s easy to see your visitors’ responses to content variations in real time.

Optimize offers website testing and personalization features you need to create online experiences that engage and delight your customers.

78. Google Analytics Experiments
The Google Analytics experiments framework enables you to test almost any change or variation to a website or app to see how it performs in optimizing for a specific goal.

79. Unbounce
Build high-converting landing pages and overlays for your marketing campaigns without the need for developers.

82. Optimizely
Experimentation platform that enables experimentation and personalization across websites, mobile apps and connected devices.

83. Convert
AB Testing and personalization solution for data driven decision in high-traffic websites.

84. AB Tasty
Helps marketers tailor UX and increase conversion rates through A/B testing and content personalization.

85. Sentient Ascend
Sentient Ascend makes multivariate testing accessible for sites that were previously only able to run A/B tests.

87. Kissmetrics
Get, keep and grow more customers with Kissmetrics behavioral analytics and engagement platform.

Using Maxymiser, marketers can deliver the most relevant, personalized experiences with simple A/B testing, complex multivariate campaign deployments, advanced customer statistics and server side testing.
Infographics

91. Piktochart
An easy-to-use infographic platform that helps non-designers create beautiful visuals.

95. StatSilk
Transforming data into interactive dashboards, graphs & maps.

98. Visually
Create engaging infographics, videos & ebooks.

100. Zanifesto
Create your own custom infographics with this easy to use online tool.
Conclusion
This list wouldn’t be complete without the free stock pictures resources and the guide to creating graphics, so make sure you check them out and I promise your design work will definitely take the leap.
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