Is Your Design Toolkit Overflowing Yet?

One of my favorite things about the training and speaking I do is all the great stuff I learn from the audience. There is nothing better than when people ask great questions prompting new thoughts and ideas or share new things.  I truly believe that if you’re looking, you can find great ideas almost anywhere.

As part of the Elearning Guild’s recent Boosting Your Design Skills Spotlight online event, I shared my favorite places to find free design assets. You can browse the slides and grab a copy of the handout over here.

As always, the audience contributed a bunch of nice design resources during the session. Now that I’ve had a chance to go back and review the session, I’ve gathered all the additional resources that were shared via comments during the session.

Here they are. And a HUGE thank you to everyone who shared!

Michelle Bonkosky: For those of us that are doing a lot of science and lab ID, check out:

• https://visualsonline.cancer.gov/
• https://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp
• https://openi.nlm.nih.gov/index.php

Jerry Dugan: Lots of military and history pics

• https://usa.gov
  • http://www.af.mil/News/Photos/
  • http://www.marines.mil/Photos.aspx
  • https://www.defense.gov/Photos/
  • https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/index.html
  • http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/html/gallery/home.shtml

Nicole Dettmar: Also great scientific photos

• https://images.nigms.nih.gov/Pages/Home.aspx

Kevin Thorn

• https://siarchives.si.edu/press/photos-videos
• http://www.loc.gov/pictures/
• http://blambot.com/

Joseph Vajda, Jr

• http://fontawesome.io/

Valerie Weagle: good tool for coming up with color pallettes:

• http://paletton.com/

Shannon Resendez:

• https://www.design-seeds.com/

Jill Lopez

• http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.php – Pixie (Color Picker)

How about you? Do you have any you’d like to share?