Whether you’re an exceptional web designer or just starting out getting frequent inspiration and staying on top of industry trends is essential for everyone in the industry. Without good sources of inspiration, you will quickly find your designs being dated and looked much older than competitors.
Below are our top sources of website inspiration in 2020
1. Dribble
Dribbble.com is the source for a lot of website inspiration, is geared towards all types of design and has everything from full user interfaces to single elements and hover effects. Dribbble has some of the best designers in the world on it and dictates most emerging design trends, so if you want to know what’s going to be popular in 2020 paying attention to top designs on this site is key.
Why you should go to Dribbble for web design inspiration
- Great source for smaller UI elements
- Tons of animated elements
- Worlds top designers are on the website
2. Webby Awards
The Webby Awards have been around since 1996, sponsored by the Academy of Web Design every year they award websites in categories like Lifestyle, Law, Shopping, and dozens more. This is a great way to get website inspiration for the best websites in the world and view them by very specific categories. The only downside of the Webby Awards is they tend to highlight very big websites that are not necessarily the most creative designs.
Why you should go to Webby Awards for web design inspiration
- Catagorized website awards
- Top agencies all around the world awards
3. Behance
Behance is a social media platform owned by Adobe which aims “to showcase and discover creative work”. Behance has a lot of different kinds of designs such as logo, business cards and a lot of print but also has a fair amount of great website designs and case studies to go along with them.
Why you should go to Behance for web design inspiration
- Catagorized website awards
- Top agencies all around the world awards
4. Awwwards
Awwwards is a professional web design and development award website. In fact much of the inspiration for Solid Awards came from the Awwwards platform. The website shows a good collection of winners and nominees along with a huge directory of agencies. You will find many of the most creative and ambitious websites on Awwwards, the only draw back is that some of these websites are so good out of the box they don’t have a lot of practical applications.
Why you should go to Awwwards for web design inspiration
- Very creative web design
- Years worth of archived websites awards
- Lots of creative agencies
5. Land Book
Land Book is a relatively new website and not as well known compared to the above inspirational sources but its a great resource in 2020 to see some top designs in a very easy to browse way. The site allows you to narrow in on landing pages, stores, blog and portfolios. The site tends to focus on very similar sites, flat design, isometric illustrations that are very trendy but none the less this is a great collection.
Why you should go to Land Book for web design inspiration
- Lots of clean website designs
- Helpful categories such as landing pages and portfolios
- Simple and fast to browse
6. Code Pen
Code Pen a code snippet website and geared as a place for front end developers to show off their HTML, CSS and Javascript skills. This is a very great resource especially in 2020 for website design inspiration if you look in the right areas. The site has everything from login forms, buttons along with full landing pages. This is a great way to dig into how things are coded and get inspired by how far front end development has come.
Why you should go to Code Pen for web design inspiration
- Lots of design patterns
- Great code snippets to reference
- Great for finding hover effects, animations and other elements
