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An archive for people who make interfaces.

Resources, motion studies, OG images, app icons and agent skills — the things designers and engineers reach for, kept in one quiet place. Every entry is chosen by hand.

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  • Components

    Shadcn (often written as shadcn/ui) is a popular component library for React and Next.js projects that provides beautifully designed, accessible, and customizable UI components built using Tailwind CSS and Radix UI.

  • Frameworks

    Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom designs without leaving your HTML.

  • Components

    Radix UI provides unstyled, accessible React primitives — plus icons and colour scales — for building high-quality design systems and web apps.

  • Components

    React Bits is a free, open-source collection of animated React components — text effects, backgrounds, interactive cards and micro-interactions — with live demos and copyable source.

  • Dev Tools

    TweakCN is a visual theme editor for shadcn/ui. Adjust colours, radius, fonts and shadows with a live preview, then export the theme for Tailwind CSS v4.

  • Components

    Motion Primitives is an open-source UI kit of animated React components, built with Motion and Tailwind CSS for React and Next.js projects.

  • Graphics

    Pattern Craft is a curated collection of 100+ modern CSS background patterns and gradients you can copy and paste into any website or app.

  • Components

    Evil Charts is a free, open-source set of animated React chart components for shadcn/ui, built with Recharts, Apache ECharts and Tailwind CSS.

  • Components

    8bitcn/ui is a retro UI library of 8-bit styled shadcn/ui components, blocks and game-ready interfaces for modern React apps.

  • Dev Tools

    A free box-shadow generator from Aceternity UI. Preview soft, realistic shadows live, then copy the Tailwind class or raw CSS in one click.

  • Learning

    Build UI’s Recipes section features practical, real-world examples of interactive UI patterns and animations using React and Framer Motion.

  • Learning

    Codrops is a well-known design and development blog that shares tutorials, experiments, and inspirational UI interactions for creative developers.

  • Dev Tools

    React Scan is a powerful tool to visualize React component performance in real time, helping you debug and optimize your React applications efficiently.

  • Inspiration

    Pinterest is a global visual discovery platform where designers can find inspiration, moodboards, and references for UI, UX, and branding projects.

  • Graphics

    Shader Gradient lets you create beautiful moving 3D gradients and use them in Framer, Figma and React.

  • Inspiration

    Minimal Gallery curates a collection of beautifully minimal and aesthetically pleasing websites, offering inspiration for clean and balanced web design.

  • Inspiration

    StackSorted collects the web's best designs sorted by element — pick a component type and browse how great sites have designed it.

  • Icons

    Tabler Icons is a free, open-source set of 6,000+ SVG icons with customisable size, colour and stroke — available for React, Vue, SolidJS, Figma and more.

  • Icons

    Nucleo provides a curated collection of pixel-perfect icons with a clean and cohesive style. It also includes a free set for personal and commercial use.

  • Icons

    Font Awesome is one of the most popular icon libraries offering thousands of free and pro icons that can be easily customized with CSS for websites and applications.

  • Icons

    Remix Icon is a set of open-source, neutral-style system icons designed for web and mobile interfaces, providing easy customization and integration with CSS or SVG.

  • Icons

    Flaticon offers the world’s largest collection of free and premium icons, stickers, and animated icons available in multiple formats such as SVG, PNG, EPS, and PSD.

  • Icons

    Lucide is a beautifully consistent open-source icon library crafted by the community as an improved fork of Feather Icons, offering scalable and modern SVG icons for web apps.

  • Icons

    The Noun Project is a massive collection of icons and symbol-graphics curated by a global community; perfect for designers and developers seeking royalty-free or licensed icons in multiple formats.

  • Icons

    3dicons is a free/open-source collection of 3D icons and renders designed for personal and commercial use under CC0 license.

  • Icons

    IconScout is a comprehensive digital-asset platform offering millions of icons, illustrations, 3D assets, and Lottie animations — with built-in editors and plugins to streamline design workflows.

  • Icons

    Icons8 is a comprehensive design-asset platform offering icons, illustrations, photos, music, 3D models and AI tools — built for creative teams and developers.

  • Icons

    Lineicons is a comprehensive icon library offering 26,000+ handcrafted icons in multiple formats (SVG, PNG, React, Figma, Icon-Font) for designers and developers.q

  • Icons

    Central Icons is a universal icon system designed for clarity and consistency across any medium, from web interfaces to product UI.

  • Icons

    IconBuddy lets you search and download 300,000+ free SVG icons from open-source icon libraries, customise them, and export as SVG, PNG, JSX or Base64.

  • Icons

    Meteor Icons is an open-source icon library of clean, rounded SVG icons designed for consistent, modern interfaces.

  • Icons

    Mage Icons is a modern open-source icon library offering clean, consistent SVG icons with multiple styles, built for scalable UI design and developer-friendly usage.

  • Icons

    BnbIcons uses AI to generate custom isometric, skeuomorphic icons in the style of Airbnb's design system — in seconds, from a prompt.

  • Typography

    FontShare by the Indian Type Foundry offers high-quality, modern fonts completely free for both personal and commercial projects.

  • Typography

    Google Fonts hosts thousands of open-source typefaces, enabling designers and developers to integrate beautiful typography into web and mobile apps easily.

  • Typography

    UNCUT.wtf is a free typeface catalogue focused on contemporary type — a hand-picked index of free fonts for expressive typography.

  • Typography

    Free Faces is a curated collection of typefaces available under a variety of free licences, categorized by style (cursive, display, monospace, sans serif, serif, slab) for web designers and developers.

  • Typography

    atipo® Foundry is an independent digital typeface foundry and graphic design studio based in Gijón, Spain, creating retail and custom fonts from a graphic-designer perspective.

  • Typography

    CoType Foundry is a London-based independent type foundry founded by Mark Bloom, creating contemporary digital typefaces for print and Web use.

  • Typography

    Pangram Pangram is an independent type foundry offering trend-conscious, high-quality fonts that are free to try and made for bold brands and creatives.

  • Typography

    F37 Foundry is an award-winning type foundry from Manchester that creates distinctive retail and custom fonts and logotypes to help brands stand out.

  • Typography

    TypeScale helps you build harmonious type scales — preview sizes and rhythm, then generate the CSS for consistent typography.

  • Dev Tools

    Lighthouse is an open-source tool by Google that audits website performance, accessibility, SEO, and best practices — helping developers build faster, more optimized web experiences.

  • Dev Tools

    Unlighthouse is an automated, fast, and developer-friendly tool that scans your entire website using Lighthouse to identify performance, accessibility, SEO, and best-practice issues—optimized for modern frameworks.

  • Design Tools

    Spline is a powerful browser-based 3D design tool that allows creators to build, animate, and export interactive 3D experiences for the web — without needing deep 3D or WebGL expertise.

  • Graphics

    CoolShapes is an open-source library of 100+ abstract, grainy-gradient shapes for design & dev projects — free for commercial and personal use.

  • Graphics

    Noisy Gradients is a web-app (and Figma plugin) that generates customizable textured and grainy gradients for use in design and development workflows.

  • Dev Tools

    Vercel is a cloud platform for frontend teams to build, preview, and ship web applications with speed and scale. It supports frameworks like Next.js and offers hosting, edge functions, and analytics.

  • Graphics

    Open Doodles is a free, open-source library of sketchy illustrations of people that you can use for personal and commercial projects — no attribution required.

  • Frameworks

    nuqs is a type-safe search-params state manager for React that lets you sync React state with the URL query string — like useState, but with URL support and serialization/parsing built in.

  • Frameworks

    Fumadocs is a flexible, React-based documentation framework for building beautiful, customizable docs sites — supporting Markdown/MDX, search, and seamless integration with popular React frameworks.

  • Design Tools

    Efecto is a free design tool where AI agents work alongside you — artboards, layers and auto-layout, with dozens of MCP tools so agents can design on the same canvas.

  • Design Tools

    Khroma is an AI-powered color palette tool that learns your color preferences and generates personalized, limitless color combinations and palettes, helping designers and creatives explore, search, and save palettes tailored to their taste.

  • Components

    Glow UI is a comprehensive Figma UI kit and design system offering thousands of ready-made components, templates, styles, and variables to speed up web app design and product interfaces, with features like wireframe mode, theme support, and production-ready assets.

  • Dev Tools

    Aether CSS is a set of free generators for liquid glass, glassmorphism, neumorphism and more — with live preview and one-click CSS export.

  • Dev Tools

    ShadcnThemer lets you discover and create themes for shadcn/ui — browse community themes, tune colours with an OKLCH picker, pick fonts and export.

  • Components

    Aceternity UI offers 200+ free, copy-paste animated components and blocks for React and Next.js — built with Tailwind CSS and Motion.

  • Components

    Skiper UI is a modern component library built on top of shadcn/ui, providing “un-common” React/Next.js components (animations, interactions, premium & free) designed with Tailwind CSS & Motion for high-impact UIs.

  • Components

    StackBits is a full-stack component library offering ready-to-use React UI elements and backend code snippets to speed up modern web development.

  • Frameworks

    React Haiku is a lightweight React library offering a large collection of hooks and utilities to save development time.

  • Components

    daisyUI is a plugin for Tailwind CSS that adds ready-to-use component class names, customizable themes and semantic colors—so you write less utility-code and build UI faster.

  • Components

    MUI is a React UI component library that provides production-ready components and tools implementing Material Design, with customization and theming built in.

  • Components

    Aether UI is a library of beautifully designed, animated React components built with Tailwind CSS and Framer Motion — ready to drop into your projects.

  • Components

    shadcn/studio offers 1,100+ shadcn/ui blocks, pages and templates, plus a Figma kit, theme generator and builder — with a free tier.

  • Components

    Shadcn Blocks offers premium blocks, components, and templates for Shadcn UI, Tailwind, and React projects. Copy, paste, or install high-quality, responsive designs.

  • Components

    FlyonUI is a free, open-source Tailwind CSS UI components library with semantic classes, interactive JS plugins, and ready-to-use blocks and templates.

  • Components

    Uiverse is a massive open-source library of customizable UI elements — including buttons, inputs, cards, and more — that designers and developers can copy and reuse in their web projects, available in CSS, Tailwind, React, and Figma formats. Every component is free for personal and commercial use.

  • Components

    ElevenLabs UI is an open-source collection of agent and audio components for React that you can customise and extend.

  • Components

    Shadcn Space is a curated collection of high-quality Shadcn UI blocks, components, and templates built with React and Tailwind CSS — enabling developers to preview, copy, and ship modern interfaces faster with production-ready, customizable code.

  • Components

    useLayouts is a free, open-source library of animated React components — copy the code or install with the shadcn CLI. Built with Motion and Tailwind CSS.

  • Components

    Magic UI offers animated React components and templates, built with Tailwind CSS and Motion, to make landing pages stand out.

  • Frameworks

    React is a JavaScript library for building fast, interactive user interfaces using a component-based architecture. It offers features like hooks, JSX, and a virtual DOM to simplify state management and improve performance.

  • Frameworks

    Next.js is a React framework for building fast, scalable web applications with features like server-side rendering, static site generation, routing, and API endpoints.

  • Animation

    Motion (formerly Framer Motion) is a fast, production-grade animation library for React, JavaScript and Vue.

  • Animation

    GSAP is a powerful, high-performance JavaScript animation library used to create smooth, complex, and professional-grade web animations.

  • Frameworks

    Three.js is a popular open-source JavaScript 3D library that makes WebGL easier to use — enabling developers to create immersive 3D graphics, animations and visualizations in the browser.

  • Design Tools

    Webflow is a no-code visual web development platform that lets designers build responsive websites without writing code. It combines design, CMS, and hosting in one platform.

  • Design Tools

    Mockuuups is a free online mockup generator with 5,200+ device and print templates — drop in a screenshot and download.

  • Design Tools

    Framer is a website builder and design tool with an AI design agent, plus built-in hosting, CMS, analytics and SEO.

  • Design Tools

    Figma is a cloud-based UI/UX design and prototyping tool that enables real-time collaboration for designers and teams.

  • Socials

    Olivier Larose is a freelance design engineer in Montreal who shares tutorials on web animation and modern frontend.

  • Socials

    Manu Arora is a founder and creator — the maker of Aceternity UI — who shares React, Next.js and UI engineering on X and YouTube.

  • Inspiration

    Viewport UI is a curated gallery of UI designs, interactions and motion studies from designers on X — browse by kind, style, type and industry.

  • Socials

    Rauno Freiberg is a designer and developer known for crafting highly polished UI interactions, sharing insights on design systems, frontend engineering, and intuitive product experiences.

  • Socials

    Huy Nguyen is a developer and creator known for building elegant tools like PillarStack and sharing insights on frontend engineering, indie hacking, and developer productivity.

  • Socials

    CodeGrid shares the ‘sauce’ behind top-tier websites — high-quality tutorials on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, animations, scroll effects and UI engineering.

  • Socials

    Syntax is a web development podcast in which Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski dig into JavaScript, CSS, frameworks and the craft of shipping for the web.

  • Socials

    Jhey Tompkins is a designer and engineer at Shopify's Brand Design Studio who shares prototypes, notes and experiments in CSS, motion and interface craft.

  • Socials

    Guri is a design engineer building @SkiperUi and sharing thoughts on frontend architecture, UI engineering and component libraries.

  • Socials

    David Haz is a web developer and designer building tools and components for the modern web — creator of React Bits (reactbits.dev) and other open-source projects.

  • Socials

    Gurbinder is a full-stack developer and design engineer who builds interactive web tools and open-source projects, sharing his work under the handle LegionsDev.

  • Socials

    Nanda Syahrasyad writes Not a Number, an interactive blog that explains computer science and web development through hands-on visuals.

  • Socials

    Samit Kapoor is a full-stack developer in India who builds modern web applications and shares his work.

  • Animation

    Make It Animated is a library of React Native animation examples built with Reanimated, Gesture Handler and Skia — browse them and learn from the code.

  • Design Tools

    Unicorn Studio is a design tool for graphics that move and respond — shaders, 3D and motion on one canvas, ready to embed on the web.

  • Design Tools

    Rive is a real-time design and animation tool plus runtime ecosystem that lets designers and developers build interactive, high-performance motion graphics across apps, games, and websites.

  • Design Tools

    Jitter is a web-based motion design tool that lets teams create professional animations fast — import from Figma, animate in the browser, and export to 4K, GIF, Lottie and more.

  • Animation

    LottieFiles is a platform that offers a large library of free and premium Lottie animations, plus tools to edit, test, and integrate them into web and mobile apps.

  • Inspiration

    Dribbble is a leading online community for designers and creatives to showcase their work, find inspiration, and connect with clients and peers. It also serves as a portfolio and job-listing platform.

  • Inspiration

    Awwwards recognises and celebrates the world’s best web designers, developers and agencies through daily, monthly and yearly awards, inspiring innovation in web design.

  • Inspiration

    Mobbin is a searchable library of real-world mobile and web app UI/UX screenshots, helping designers find patterns and inspiration quickly.

  • Inspiration

    404s is a curated gallery of creative ‘Page Not Found’ (404) web pages — showcasing design inspiration for error states and dead-end user experiences.

  • Components

    21st is a community library of React and Tailwind CSS components — explore, copy and remix thousands published by designers and developers.

  • Inspiration

    60fps is a curated gallery of smooth, high-performance UI animations and interactions, focused on motion design that feels fast, fluid, and responsive.

  • Inspiration

    Design Spells is a curated online collection showcasing magical micro-interactions, Easter eggs, animations, and delightful UI details that add personality and fun back into digital experiences.

  • Inspiration

    CTA.gallery is a curated online gallery showcasing effective call-to-action (CTA) designs from across the web, offering inspiration and examples to help designers create high-impact, conversion-boosting CTAs.

  • Inspiration

    Supahero is a curated library of high-quality website hero section designs that helps web designers and developers find stunning, engaging hero inspirations for their next project, with examples across styles and niches.

  • Components

    uibrik is a UI kit for AI agents: 290+ animated React components your agent finds over MCP and installs with the shadcn CLI — as Tailwind CSS and Motion source you own.