Design inspiration websites worth bookmarking
The design inspiration sites worth keeping open: landing pages, app screens, type and the weird stuff, what each is good for, and what to do with what you find.
TLDR
- There are hundreds of these. Most are the same 200 websites, reshuffled.
- Pick one or two per job: landing pages, app screens, type, and something weird to keep you out of the SaaS template rut.
- They’re for browsing. When you find something, save it somewhere you own, because galleries delete stuff and the original sites redesign.
Landing pages and websites
- Godly. Hand-picked, animated previews, heavy on the bold and experimental. The one designers actually send each other.
- Land-book. Huge, well tagged, filterable by industry and style. Good when you need “fintech pricing page” specifically.
- SaaS Landing Page. Exactly what it says, and sorted by section (heroes, pricing, testimonials), which is how you’ll actually use it.
- Lapa Ninja. Big collection of landing pages, plus free books and resources.
- Awwwards. Award winners. Beautiful, often slow, sometimes unusable. Great for ideas, less great as a template.
App screens and flows
- Mobbin. Screens and full flows from real iOS, Android and web apps, searchable by screen type (“paywall”, “onboarding”, “empty state”). Mostly paid, and worth it if you design product.
- Page Flows. Recorded user flows from real products. Watching an actual onboarding run beats looking at screenshots of one.
Type
- Fonts In Use. An archive of type in the wild, from book covers to shop signs, with the fonts named. The best way to see a font do something other than sit in a specimen.
- Google Fonts. Free, and better than people give it credit for. The pairings on each font page are a good starting point.
Everything else
- Savee. A visual bookmarking community: graphic design, photography, branding. Their feed is a moodboard that never ends. (Savepad vs Savee.)
- Are.na. Slower, stranger and more thoughtful. People make channels about anything, and following good ones is how you get references nobody else has. (Savepad vs Are.na.)
- Dribbble and Behance. Dribbble for UI shots, Behance for full branding case studies. Take Dribbble with a pinch of salt: a lot of it will never ship.
- Pinterest. Still huge for photography, interiors and colour, though it’s gotten a lot noisier with AI images. There’s a setting to see fewer of them, under Refine your recommendations.
My own folder
My Design Inspiration folder is about 50 homepages, mostly dev tools: Stripe, Supabase, Linear, Clerk, Raycast, Vercel, Mintlify and friends. It’s public at my.savepad.app/@gunnyganatra. There’s a write-up of the best ones in landing page examples I keep stealing from.
Don’t just browse
Galleries are great until you need the thing you saw last Tuesday. Then it’s somewhere on page 14 of Godly, or it’s been removed, or the site it pointed to has redesigned.
So when something stops you, save it yourself. The full page, not just the hero. With a note on what you liked. In Savepad, a saved page keeps a full snapshot at desktop and phone widths, the colours get pulled out (filter by colour when you need “that green”, or grab a palette from any image with the free palette tool), and search reads the words on it. That’s the difference between a list of bookmarks and a moodboard you can actually search.
If you’ve never kept one, start with what a swipe file is, then steal the designer folders from the swipe file template.