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Hey, everyone, and welcome back.

So we're going to talk about how I find inspiration online.

Now, we already went over how we can stay inspired.

And generally that's where I get most of my inspiration, you know, talking to peers, walking around,

studying other people's work, you know, staying knowledgeable about different topics.

That's what really keeps me inspired by.

I also think that a key to your product design process in this is what I find absolutely necessary is

to have a constant source of online inspiration.

So there are several sites that I like to visit.

These are some of them.

The main one I like to visit is dribble.

So here's dribble.

It's a great place.

I'm sure many of you know it already, but I love it just because I can just make a bunch of collections

of different types of design patterns that I really love.

Also searching on here is really easy and it's probably one of the best places to go and get ideas for

your designs.

I mean, not because there are so many people posting cool things, but it's a great way to study your

peers.

You can discover some of the world's top designers and creatives, and you can also get inspiration

from a wide range of disciplines, like anything from animation, branding, illustrations, product

design, web design, print.

I mean, there's so many different things on here.

There's always a project you can learn from.

And what makes it great is that it's a place where people can post their content and get feedback.

I mean, feedback doesn't happen very often on a lot of these posts, but it's just a great way to get

a lot of different types of inspiration.

Some people even like showcasing their portfolio for potential clients or studios, and because of this,

like final pieces that are uploaded are like of the highest quality.

I generally love to catalog different things, like I mentioned before, and this is what I generally

do and this is how I use it.

So I like to sometimes just browse all.

I'm a big fan of like different things.

I guess like an example would be like if I just typed typography.

Some people are doing some really interesting stuff that may inspire me, like just seeing something

like this print collateral and looking at all these different shapes and the way they're positioned

and even the way like the text is bolded and laid out, something like that could inspire me for like

website hero page or something like that.

So like anything you can grab inspiration from and I feel like a lot of people get really hooked up

or held up on trying to find just the right solution that they can kind of mimic.

Don't do that.

I mean, that's one way to kind of stunt your creativity.

So what I like to do is like if I'm going to search for something like navigation or mobile navigation,

I like to see all these different types of options.

So like if I go into this, this is pretty cool, just the way they have these little kind of micro

interactions and animations.

So I may just like save that and I have a bunch of different like collections.

So you can see I have a collection for calculators or carousel forms color.

There's like CRM tools that I like to look at.

I may see this under mobile navigation.

And I can just create a collection really quickly.

So this is really cool.

And there you go.

It saved.

You can even like it if you want and you can start typing.

And some people like to give their feedback or just ask questions.

It's really great place.

So this is what we typically do.

Like, I would grab this, I would save it.

I would type in like mobile navigation and start creating a collection of different ways.

People have done this.

If I'm trying to solve for a similar problem that I'm stuck on now, I may not be stuck on this per

se, but I may get inspired by something like just how they have done these smooth animations, like

in this example I just showed you.

So I may really like this, just the subtlety of it, and I may want to implement something similar

for my product.

And the easy way to get there is to hover over your profile and go to my collections over here.

And you can see like I have like even a test.

I have a bunch of different options here.

So I have mobile navigation right there and I'll just kind of go through them.

I may like copy them or like make notes about this mobile navigation if I edit it and add a description

to it.

So that's how I typically use dribble.

I mean, like I said before, you can get inspiration from like any type of discipline, like even if

it's branding.

Like just seeing like maybe like just the way that they've incorporated a background here seems very

interesting and how sharp like in terms of contrast there is between color and shade.

You know, don't limit yourself just by trying to find the right solution for what you're trying to

do.

Look elsewhere.

Another thing I like to use is Pinterest.

This is a whole lot of library of visual content.

I mean, you can get inspiration for everything here, but there is a lot of noise.

I think the best way to get inspiration from something like Pinterest is to do what I've just done here.

Just have a very targeted search.

So I chose mobile design.

And yeah, there are a lot of different options here.

And what you can do is you can just kind of save it.

I have like a keto family meal plan, little kind of collection over here and you can like save those

collections for yourself or those boards.

They're called in Pinterest.

I mean, one thing you can also do like is create a bunch of different boards about different types

of design patterns that you love.

So that's one way to use Pinterest.

I also like to just like use Pinterest just to look at different things.

I mean, it could even be like interiors.

It could be anything like design related, even if that's interior design.

Like I said, don't limit yourself just to like finding the right solution.

So what I typically do is I like to just kind of go into one and I'll like I'll save it to a certain

board.

So like I'll click save and it'll go into that board.

It went into the wrong one.

But you can kind of change that.

You can pick.

Basically a bunch of different boards.

You can even make a new one on the go.

So that's definitely an easy way to keep track of a bunch of inspiration.

There's also a plug in that allows you to actually save different types of content.

So if we go back to dribble, so here's my Pinterest extension and what you can do is like if I focus

on here, I have it pop up over here that I want to save it to somewhere.

Even if you're on a different site, you can save things to your Pinterest board.

Easy way to use Pinterest and collect inspiration over time.

The next one I like to use.

I don't use this very much, but I mean, one thing I really love about Behance is that the quality

is really good here and there's a lot of explanation behind some of the work.

This is another interesting place to find a bunch of different types of inspiration, whether it be

like graphic design, you know, all different types of design.

I often use this kind of like a long side dribble, but not as much as dribble.

A good thing to note is that big businesses will spend a bunch of money advertising job rolls here with

hopes of attracting top talent.

So since there are big brands on the lookout, you can expect to find lots of work.

You know, there's a lot of great ideas and lots of creativity.

So if I go here and I search like mobile.

Like I can already see there's a bunch of different like options.

And one thing that's really great about it that's way better than dribble.

Dribble just kind of gives you like a snapshot of a design over here.

Like a lot of people like to upload like so much content in regards to the actual app.

Like you often only see like just a snippet that looks really good, but you kind of are left in the

dark about how the rest of the application pans out and if it's good at all.

So this is what like a lot of the different types of kind of things you'll see on Behance, like a lot

of different types of gallery image, like images like this, they'll break down like the challenge

or customer development.

I like this stuff way more than the pretty screenshots because I'm really interested in like how they

solve the problem and how they got to the solution.

So some people will often post things like that.

I like to see how people even lay out or define their style guides.

So this is really cool to see more in depth animations which look really, really smooth.

I like to see different types of things, like they have a transactions over here, they have card settings

just like how the bank cards will look.

It just gives you a lot more versatility on how you want to view those projects and what you're looking

for.

Like if you're looking for a quick solution for like a design pattern, then maybe dribble may be one

of the better sites to look at or patterns which we'll get into next.

But this was really great to get overview of certain projects.

You know, there may not be as many, but a lot of the projects on here are just top notch.

So another thing I really like to use is patterns.

So one thing you need to know is that patterns isn't free entirely.

This is essentially like a focus on mobile design patterns, and there are some great mobile app designs

here and you'll get screenshots of like in depth UI elements.

You can even search just based off of UI elements, which is really cool.

And like I said before, it's paid.

So it kind of limits the amount that you can see.

Sometimes what you can see is enough.

But I mean, if you're really looking into solving for different design patterns and you don't mind

paying for premium, then I think this is a really great resource.

So like if we take a look on the site here, we have like different categories, which is really cool,

like if I'm going to look for cards.

I see how different people have handled cards and I'll only get to see just a little bit.

I think they'll stop me like right now.

So it's not a lot, but I mean, it's not necessarily like everything is super pretty like in terms

of like the dribble effect, but you get to really see some actual solutions that have been implemented,

which I value I think a bit more.

What else do we have here?

I love to see different things like lists is another cool thing, like how people handle different lists.

So I mean, this is really great for just finding individual like UI elements and stuff like that.

I love using patterns.

I have a paid account through my company, so that really helps.

And yeah, this is how I solve a lot of like different types of like individual problems or like problems

that are kind of more secluded and more focused in a certain area.

So like if an example would be how do I handle like privacy or popover?

So I have privacy here and there isn't many options, but it's very interesting, like they have a verify

your identity option.

So I may think about that when implementing something like that.

If I think about like, popovers, I think like, you know, maybe like an overlay can come from the

top, it can come from the side.

So I see a bunch of different implementations of that.

And the last site I kind of use, I like this site, especially for websites, is awards.

So this is another great option for web based design.

They have an award system like you can see that over here.

And you know, it displays exceptional designers and they have expert judges and a pretty strict evaluation

process.

And you'll notice a lot of the latest Web trends are over here so we can search up something like.

Banking.

And here you can search by websites, you can search by like elements.

So if we go to load old results, we just click that.

If we if we go there, we can see a bunch of different websites based off of what we searched for.

And what's really great is like I searched up something like banking, which you would assume would

be really like rigid and strict in terms of like their design and their design principles.

But you see a bunch of different like takes on what banking could look like.

I mean, not all of these things are necessarily banking related, but there's a lot of inspiration

here.

So like we could just click over here, we have a small banking business and this is Lone Star National

Bank.

It's a really great site.

I can see just a bit of the hero.

And if we click into that, we'll go to the actual website and be able to actually experience that experience.

So this is obviously a little bit different than what we saw.

But, you know, maybe they've had a design update and maybe for the better or for the worse, but it

gives you good context as well into like the solution, you know, going back to pretty screenshots

and not necessarily knowing if certain things have been implemented, these are pretty much all been

implemented and you can see how that actually functions when you go to that website and try those different

like interactions or you know, explore navigation schemes and stuff like that.

So these are basically the top ways I get my online inspiration.

I mean, I mentioned before that I get a lot of my inspiration by just staying inspired in general and

like staying knowledgeable on different topics, whether that be like design trends, whether that be

like development trends, everything like that.

So I think it's really important that you kind of catalog some actual visual design inspiration online

as well, and these are some resources that you can definitely use.

So if you want to categorize everything from all different sites, Pinterest is probably best to have

like one source of truth in terms of like a board.

But if you want to stick to certain sites like dribble, you can like save collections there and have

it all in one place over there.

So this is what I use and you know, go out there, I'll find don't copy people, but just try and stay

inspired online and surround yourself by online inspiration.

So that way when people come to you for ideas, you're kind of on the ball.

You understand a bunch of different design patterns and you just have general knowledge of what are

the latest trends.

So go out there and have fun.