Every tool added in the week of 10 Aug – 16 Aug 2026. Vote for the ones you find useful: votes decide the order of this page and the Tool of the week. They never change a review, a ranking in the directory or a drawback.
- 1UI SFX Design Systems & UI Kits
An open-source library of 936 interface sound effects, organised into 12 sonic personalities and 78 semantic cues like hover, press, success and error.
- 2CSS Gradient Generator Graphic Design
Visual builder for linear, radial and conic CSS gradients with multiple stops and copy-ready output. Built and hosted by us.
- 3Colour Contrast Checker Graphic Design
WCAG AA and AAA contrast checker with live ratios, pass/fail badges for normal and large text, and suggested fixes. Built and hosted by us.
- 4Colour Palette Generator Graphic Design
Browser-based palette generator with seven harmony rules, WCAG contrast checks and colour-blindness simulation. Built and hosted by us.
- 5Autodesk Maya Physical Product Design
The long-standing industry standard for 3D animation, character rigging and modelling in film, television and games production.
- 6Houdini Physical Product Design
A procedural 3D application built around node graphs, dominant in visual effects and increasingly used for generative and parametric design work.
- 7DaVinci Resolve Graphic Design
A professional video editing, colour grading, visual effects and audio post suite, with a free version that is genuinely production-capable.
- 8Milanote Cross-Discipline & Workflow
A freeform visual board for early-stage creative work — moodboards, references, notes and rough structure before anything becomes a proper document.
- 9Sketchfab Physical Product Design
A platform for publishing, viewing and selling 3D models in the browser, widely used for portfolios, client review and sourcing assets.
- 10Meshy Physical Product Design
An AI tool that generates 3D models from a text prompt or a single image, producing textured meshes for games, product visualisation and prototyping.
- 11Lottielab Digital Product Design
A browser-based editor for Lottie animations, letting you create and adjust them without going through After Effects and the Bodymovin plugin.
- 12Jitter Digital Product Design
A browser-based motion design tool aimed at product and brand designers who want animation without learning After Effects.
- 13SVG Repo Graphic Design
A search engine for free SVG icons and vectors, with several hundred thousand assets filterable by licence, style and collection.
- 14Who Can Use Digital Product Design
A colour contrast checker that reframes the result in human terms — showing how a colour pair looks to people with specific vision conditions, rather than just passing or failing a ratio.
- 15Radix Colors Design Systems & UI Kits
An open-source colour system of 30 scales, each with 12 steps engineered for specific interface jobs — backgrounds, borders, hover states, text.
- 16Remix Icon Graphic Design
A neutral open-source icon system of over 3,000 icons, each available in outlined and filled variants on a consistent 24px grid.
- 17daisyUI Design Systems & UI Kits
A component library for Tailwind CSS that adds semantic class names like btn and card, so you write less utility-class soup.
- 18tldraw Cross-Discipline & Workflow
An infinite-canvas whiteboard that is also an embeddable SDK, popular for quick diagrams, wireframes and as a canvas inside other products.
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