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Design Systems
Design Systems Index
Design Systems Index is a curated Notion database by Portuguese designer Ruben Ferreira Duarte that catalogues hundreds of design system examples from companies worldwide. Launched in 2024, it helps design teams research and analyze documentation approaches, with filters for tools like Zeroheight and Storybook. The index is regularly updated with new references to showcase the variety of design system solutions teams can build.
Video Tools
https://www.veed.io
VEED.io is an AI-powered online video editor designed for fast, professional video creation. It offers one-click auto-subtitle generation, AI avatars for talking head videos, and tools for eye contact correction and multilingual content. Trusted by Fortune 500 companies, it combines editing, collaboration, and AI features in a browser-based platform with both free and premium tiers.
Product Discovery
https://mobbin.com
Mobbin is the largest mobile and web design reference library featuring over 300,000 screenshots from 1,000+ top-rated apps. It provides searchable UI patterns, full user flows, and a Figma plugin to help designers find real-world examples and best practices. The platform is organized by app categories, screen types, and design patterns, making it essential for product designers seeking inspiration.
https://www.cosmos.so
Cosmos is a visual discovery platform for collecting and organizing inspiration across any medium—articles, products, photos, videos, and more. It uses AI to automatically tag saved items and offers browser extensions for easy capture. Users can create public or private collections called clusters and search their curated library instantly, all in a distraction-free environment.
Animation
https://lottiefiles.com/ai
LottieFiles AI provides AI-powered tools for creating and managing Lottie animations. Motion Copilot generates keyframes from text prompts, while AI Prompt to Vector creates scalable graphics instantly. The platform includes Raster to Vector conversion and an AI Illustration Generator for copyright-free visuals in SVG and JPG formats, all designed to accelerate animation workflows.
UI Kit/Component Library
https://www.untitledui.com
Untitled UI is the world’s largest Figma UI kit and React component library with over 10,000 components. It offers both free and premium versions featuring Auto Layout, variables, dark mode support, and production-ready code. The system includes comprehensive documentation, practical examples, and integrations with Tailwind CSS and React Aria, making it suitable for both rapid prototyping and enterprise projects.
Prototyping Tools
https://v0.app
v0 by Vercel is an AI-powered prototyping tool that generates React components and full interfaces from natural language prompts. Built for the Next.js ecosystem, it produces production-ready code using Shadcn UI and Tailwind CSS. Users can describe their UI needs, iterate through prompts, and deploy directly to Vercel with one click, making it ideal for rapid prototyping and component generation.
https://aistudio.google.com
Google AI Studio is a free browser-based IDE for prototyping with Google’s Gemini AI models. It allows developers to experiment with prompts, test multimodal capabilities, and export code to integrate AI into applications. The platform offers chat interfaces, structured prompts, and customizable safety settings, serving as a stepping stone before moving to production-grade solutions like Vertex AI.