Despite the size of Pinterest, it may not be the best design inspiration source for your next project. Image credit: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg.
With over 100 million active monthly users Pinterest is definitely the biggest visual bookmarking and discovery platform in the world. While it might be overloaded with recipes, dresses, wedding welcome boards, DIY decor and summer drinks you can still find a lot of food to feed your design inspiration hunger.
"Pinterest crosses user milestone of 100 million." - Mike Isaac, The New York Times, September 2015
Despite the size of Pinterest, it may not be the best design inspiration source for your next project.
To ensure you're getting quality and curated content specifically for designers check the following Pinterest alternatives for unlimited design inspiration from graphic and web design fields, art, graffiti, typography, architecture, photography, interior design and more.
In comparison to Pinterest, Piccsy seems to have a userbase with an exceptional taste for appealing and high-quality visual content. Image credit: Piccsy.
Piccsy is an amazing platform for discovering and sharing beautiful, inspirational and creative pictures. It is remarkably similar to Pinterest and allows you to do pretty much everything you could do on Pinterest. In comparison to Pinterest, Piccsy seems to have a userbase with an exceptional taste for appealing and high-quality visual content.
DeviantArt - Founded in 2000, DeviantArt is the largest online social network for artists and art enthusiasts, and a platform for emerging and established artists to exhibit, promote, and share their works with an enthusiastic, art-centric community. It is an extremely convenient source for uncommon design fields like painting, sculpture, body art and pixel art.
Designspiration is a collection of all fields of design. Image credit: Designspiration.
Another mighty resource for design lovers. Designspiration is a collection of all fields of design. You can easily discover great design and share your own ideas as well as your favorite pieces. In addition to a dynamic search, Designspiration allows you to save favorite items into collections, similar to Pinterest boards.
Behance - A platform for showcasing and discover creative work. Behance is one of the biggest online portfolio community for designers of all kinds to show off their designs and projects and receive feedback. This platform is like Pinterest on steroids as content is usually very high quality providing you case studies, work in progress and other updates.
We Heart It is dominated by female content and can serve very well if you’re targeting women with your design project and need inspiration. Image credit: We Heart It.
Similarly like Pinterest, We Heart It allows you to collect your favorite images from around the web, save them in sets, follow other users and get inspired. We Heart It is dominated by female content and can serve very well if you're targeting women with your design project and need inspiration.
Dribbble - Dribbble is a show and tell for designers. A huge community of quality invite-only members sharing what they are working on daily. Dribbble is one of the most important and powerful platforms for digital designers, illustrators, graphic designers providing a space for
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Recognize that the world you experience is merely a reflection of the way you see it.”
as humans we do three things with all information that comes our way;
we filter according to our own belief systems.
the world that You are experiencing is merely a reflection of Your own attitude towards it.our own belief systems.