Web Design Magazines And Blogs: Where To Look For Inspiration?

No designer can exist in a vacuum, and if you want to be a good web designer, you need sources of inspiration and motivation. Technology evolves, and standards change, and the best way to stay up-to-date is through web design magazines and blogs. Let’s talk about the best ones.

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Web Design Magazines: Where to look for inspiration?

Smashing Magazine

It’s impossible not to mention Smashing Magazine — one of the most popular and respectable sources for all things web. It’s brimming with valuable articles from respectable authors and has a massive amount of resources.

A List Apart

Another respectable name, A List Apart, writes about “the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices.” It’s one of the oldest such resources out there, founded in 1997 as a mailing list.

Creative Bloq

As the name implies, Creative Bloq is the best place to find inspiration and read exciting opinions. Sure, it’s not strictly about web design, but that hardly changes anything.

themeforest

Inspiration is something few of us can afford. When you need to create, you usually don’t have time to find your muse. That’s when themeforest comes in handy: it features hundreds of examples of sites you can actually make — unlike more unrealistic-looking examples from Awwwards (which is still a great place to visit occasionally).

Site Inspire

siteinspire.com is a great place to find your next great idea. It’s neat, fast, and filled to the brim with gorgeous examples.

godly.website

Yet another website that has more gorgeous examples than you need, godly.website is a fantastic place to find new ideas. savee.it is another one we can recommend.