Better Search Engines for Designers

If your tired of using Google Image Search to find design inspi­ra­tion and free­bie resources, then you need to check out these two new search engines. They’re bet­ter designed and curat­ed to pro­vide design pro­fes­sion­als with bet­ter results.

For free­bies, psddd.co combs through Dribbble and orga­nizes items that have been released into the wild for the design com­mu­ni­ty to use. Things are added and cat­e­go­rized man­u­al­ly to main­tain a high qual­i­ty of search results. There’s already over 780 items cat­e­go­rized and search­able bet­ter than what is cur­rent­ly offered on Dribbble itself. The design of Psddd also puts more focus on resources as any good search engine should.

Psddd Screenshot - Free design resources search engine, image search, graphic design freebies

 

For inspi­ra­tion, niice.co scrapes Behance, Dribbble and Designspiration and presents results in a large grid lay­out that makes them easy to quick­ly digest and get cre­ative juices flow­ing. Each photo links to its orig­i­nal post to get more infor­ma­tion if some­thing real­ly stands out to you. In the future, they plan to add more source mate­r­i­al sites as well as share­able boards to col­lect inspiration.

Niice Screenshot - Design inspiration search engine, image search, design resources

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2 comments on “Better Search Engines for Designers

  1. Debra says:

    I love your blog! Thanks for the tip on search engines, I’m going to check them out for sure. Sometimes I feel like I spend more time search­ing for free­bies and inspi­ra­tion than actu­al­ly design­ing so it would be great to speed up the process.

    • griffin says:

      Thanks Debra for the pos­i­tive feed­back. I always strug­gle with that too. There’s just so much cool stuff out there, I want to see it all.