Awesome Design Tools
A community-curated index of design tools, plugins, and UI resources.
Awesome Design Tools is a public GitHub repository collecting links to tools for product, UI, UX, visual, and web design workflows. It organizes resources by task area, with companion lists for plugins, conferences, and UI kits, and accepts additions through pull requests.
Why it stands out
- Covers a broad span of design-adjacent workflows rather than only UI mockup tools.
- Maintained as an open GitHub repository, so additions and corrections are publicly trackable.
- Includes useful labels for free, open-source, and platform-specific tools.
- Companion files separate plugins, UI kits, and conferences from the main tool directory.
Good to know
- It is a curated link list, not a review site with hands-on testing or ranked recommendations.
- Tool availability, pricing, and platform support may change faster than the repository is updated.
- The list is navigated mainly through the table of contents or browser search, so discovery can feel manual.
- Many listed tools are not necessarily open source or free despite the presence of those labels.
Under the radar: Use GitHub’s in-page file search or your browser’s find command with workflow terms like “handoff,” “accessibility,” or “prototyping” instead of scanning the long table of contents manually.
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Designers and front-end teams can use it to discover tools for a specific workflow such as prototyping, handoff, accessibility, or design systems. Compare available options before choosing a new design or collaboration tool. Find niche resources for tasks like gradients, user flows, pixel art, screenshots, or visual debugging. Submit a missing design tool or plugin through the repository’s contribution process.
Category-based README index; separate lists for design plugins, conferences, and UI kits; labels for free, open-source, and Mac-only tools; GitHub issues and pull requests for community updates; contribution guidelines for adding new entries.
Technical Notes
- Repository contents can be accessed through GitHub’s public repository API or by cloning/downloading the repo files.
- The underlying catalog is primarily Markdown, so users may need to parse the README and companion files themselves for structured reuse.
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