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Where do you find design inspiration?
The question is mainly for email design, but websites will do as well
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Daniela Uemura
I am a designer and for me inspiration can be intentionally searched AND it can also be a happy accident.
For the first case, it really depends on the project but Google, Behaence and Pinterest are good starters.
For the second case I recommend to be open to the daily sparks and allow the outside to merge with whatever you have in mind.
The second case can't be forced or measured, but yo can expose yourself to many different things (non-project related things) on the side and see where that takes you.
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@jeorge28 that's an awesome resource, I use it too! though sometimes I have some problems with navigation there
@jeorge28 @darya_antonyuk Trying it out, but I see what your saying about navigation 😅 Too bad!
@wyatt_feaster well, sometimes you want to find a super narrow category, for example, "apology emails", you put in in the search box, and get almost nothing. Then you write something like "sorry", and get much more relevant results. So I guess sometimes these searches are based on the subject lines of the emails, and not on their types
I initially liked From Our Place website - earthy, simple...but I ended up going technicolor and going for long form copy to explain everything on timberdog.com
@chitterz your site looks amazing! Great that you've found resources to inspire but created something totally of your own!
@darya_antonyuk Thank you so much, it's so gratifying to hear that. I worked/work so hard on it every day and night. Even now -- it's 4 am and I'm still working.
We do web design at my agency and mainly use www.lapa.ninja and www.land-book.com because they are websites that actually land clients vs dribbble and behance where it's more artistic and not so much based around landing clients.
Sometimes we do take a look at dribbble and behance though if we want to experiment a bit.
You can also get very lucky with Pintrest sometimes!
@felipezorro thank you for taking part! that's for website inspiration mostly, right?
dribble, figma community, pinterest sometimes. And try at least one new product every day, those appstore recommended products could be helpful.
@cld sounds like a cool method! Are you trying new product to find inspiration for your own app?
@darya_antonyuk yep, I usually check page design. We are a young team and have less knowledge in many aspect, like design for purchase page. When we have no idea for our logo, we will also check logos of similar products in the market to get inspiration and avoid sameness.
@evgeny_kotelevskiy that's a useful method, thanks! could you share a couple of creators you like most of all?
I am super old school when it comes to finding design inspiration. but for my architectural design inspiration, i've got some random books that I got back in architecture school. conceptual books.
space and geometry books help me too
I’m actually finding a lot of people just subscribe to a shit load of email lists.
Which actually lead me to start building a product for email inspiration and keeping track of competitor email.
Www.Emailemu.com