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DesignSafe Data Depot Repository

designsafe-ci.org

DesignSafe Data Depot Repository is a component of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI), a distributed national research facility that enables research to protect human life, reduce damage, and minimize economic loss from natural hazards. It provides a data depot, research tools including the Recon Portal, training resources, user guides, and educational materials for the natural hazards engineering research community. The platform also hosts information on NHERI facilities, training events, early-career researcher programs, and community initiatives.

FaceMaker

facemaker.uvrg.org

faceMaker is a free web app for creating custom cartoon avatars and profile pictures. Users design a virtual figure face based on the European Average Face. The site recommends Firefox and supports Chrome and Opera, but not Internet Explorer or Safari.

FreeCAD

freecad.org

FreeCAD is an open-source parametric 3D modeler for designing real-life objects of any size. It allows sketches of constrained 2D shapes as a base for building other objects. It is multiplatform and reads and writes many file formats. It is used for product design, mechanical engineering and architecture.

Gaming Alexandria

gamingalexandria.com

Gaming Alexandria is a game preservation group that shares high-resolution scans, articles, interviews and prototype dumps. The site began in 2015 with scans of games and expanded to include contributions from others. It also hosts design documents and preserved games on its website.

Homestyler

homestyler.com

Homestyler is an online 3D home design tool that runs in the browser without installation. Users can upload a 2D floor plan or sketch for conversion into an editable 3D model, decorate with furniture models via drag-and-drop, and visualize designs through cloud rendering. Templates are available, and AI tools include image-to-image and text-to-image room design.

Image to 3D

image-to-3d.ai

Image to 3D AI generates 3D models from images or text. It is presented as useful for game development, 3D printing, interior design and education. Paid subscription plans include Pro at 700 credits per month and Max at 1600 credits per month; one-time credit purchases are also offered.

ImageResizer

imageresizer.com

ImageResizer is a free, browser-based online image resizing tool. It requires no software installation, works across all operating systems, and processes images quickly while preserving high output quality. The service uses 256-bit encrypted SSL for uploads, automatically deletes user images within 6 hours, and has offered free, watermark and registration-free resizing since 2012. It also provides an AI-assisted graphic design tool called ClipSnap.

IMP Awards

impawards.com

IMP Awards is a movie poster database covering both the latest releases and older posters dating back to 1912. The site also lists annual awards, poster design agencies, artist credits and taglines, alongside poster news, upcoming releases, short film posters and a weekly top 10 box office chart.

InfoMesh

infomesh.org

A web platform marking the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web, exploring social, technical, cultural and legal facts through interactive timelines. It was made by Media & Interaction Design students at ECAL/University of Art and Design, Lausanne, starting from a 1989 hypertext proposal by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN.

KDE

develop.kde.org

The KDE Human Interface Guidelines are a document covering KDE's design philosophy and culture, common workflows and patterns, standard user interface conventions, and recommendations for platform integration. It aims to help developers build applications that feel at home in KDE Plasma and work well outside of it. The guidelines are described as a living document that welcomes contributions and as design guidance rather than implementation instructions.

Learn to Code HTML & CSS

learn.shayhowe.com

A guide written by designer and front-end developer Shay Howe that teaches people to build websites with HTML and CSS through clear, organized lessons. It covers web design and development topics from beginner to advanced skill levels, including a beginner guide and an advanced HTML and CSS section on topics such as detailed positioning, responsive web design and feature support and polyfills.

Logo Fast

logofa.st

LogoFast is a free AI logo maker for creating a logo in seconds. The site states that no design skills are needed and offers presets. The page also promotes the CodeFast coding course.

Made With ML

madewithml.com

Made With ML is an educational resource by Anyscale that teaches how to responsibly design, develop, deploy and iterate on production machine learning applications. Its lessons cover design, data preparation, model training, development, testing, reproducibility and production.

MeshGradient

meshgradient.in

Meshy is a design tool that generates mesh gradients from a given color palette. Each gradient is unique to an id and color hex codes that act as a seed for recreating it. A four-color palette is used, and each color covers a different amount of area.

MultiAvatar

multiavatar.com

Multiavatar is an open-source multicultural avatar generator that can produce 12 billion cryptographically unique avatars. Names and words are associated with avatars randomly. Generated avatars can be used free as profile pictures, gaming logos or design elements, and the generator is written in JavaScript, PHP, Python and Solidity.

OMG SPACE

omgspace.net

OMG SPACE is a series of visuals created as a graphic design thesis project to illustrate the true scale of the solar system. All planets, including the sun and dwarf planets, are shown to scale, as are their distances from the sun, at a ratio of 1:647. Created in 2011 by Margot Trudell, the site's data is only current to early 2011, with minor design and development updates in 2015.

Pastel

usepastel.com

A collection of marker illustrations offered free for personal and commercial design projects. The PNG files may be downloaded without attribution or permission, though the license excludes compiling assets to replicate or compete with the service and distributing them in packs.

Project Wallace

projectwallace.com

Project Wallace is a web-based CSS analyzer that examines stylesheets for complexity, specificity, performance and design tokens. Users paste a URL or raw CSS to receive a full analysis, a quality score, a design token audit and a custom property inspector, plus a cascade layer visualizer. Standalone tools include a CSS prettifier, minifier, diff viewer and specificity calculator.

SaaS Pages

saaspages.xyz

A collection of SaaS landing pages with a focus on copywriting and design, organized by page sections such as navbars, headers, features, pricing and testimonials. Each block lists best practices and includes articles and screenshots from landing pages. The site also offers a company browsing view and a design comparison feature.

site123

site123.com

SITE123 is a free website builder that requires no design or coding skills. It provides a website editor, responsive design, free hosting, SEO tools, online store and blog features. A free plan includes 250 MB storage and bandwidth on a subdomain, while premium plans add a free domain for one year and domain connection. Support is available 24/7 by live chat.

Sketch App Sources

sketchappsources.com

Sketch App Sources is a curated collection of free and premium design resources for Sketch, Figma and Adobe XD. It offers icons, UI kits, wireframes, templates and vector files that the site states are editable in those tools. The site also publishes plugins, tutorials and articles, and was founded in 2012.

Solid Edge

resources.sw.siemens.com

Designcenter Solid Edge Community Edition is free professional 3D CAD software intended for personal use by makers, CAD enthusiasts and design challenge competitors. It supports designing parts, assemblies and sheet metal, with automated drafting, exploded views, animation, rendering and simulation. Files cannot be opened in commercial versions and 2D drawings are watermarked.

Teaching Tech is the companion website for a YouTube channel that provides tutorials on 3D modelling, 3D printing, laser cutting, CNC machining, coding, robotics, electronics and graphic design. The site is intended to supplement the videos with interactive content and detailed written instructions. It also contains affiliate marketing links, including Amazon affiliate links.

the component gallery

component.gallery

The Component Gallery is a repository of interface components drawn from examples in design systems. It serves as a reference for people building user interfaces and catalogues 60 components, 95 design systems and 2,671 examples, including carousel, tree view, popover, rating, accordion, quote, pagination and tabs.