Daily inspiration for creatives

Need a gradient? uiGradients is a gallery of beautiful color gradients in CSS. You can see all the gradients in one screen, or just scroll through them one by one. Press space to add your own gradient, shift to see them all at once, or enter to get the CSS code. There are dozens of gradients included.

Beautiful, curated color palettes ColorDrop.io offers up beautiful, curated color palettes. Click on any palette to see the HEX and RGB codes for each hue. You can also change the background color of the website to better suit your needs. There are hundreds of palettes included on the site, fitting a huge variety of moods and purposes.

Emails from your CEO Emails from a CEO who has just a few changes to the website is a hilariously recognizable article showcasing all the various kinds of emails design and development teams get from CEOs all the time. Anyone who's dealt with a boss who's not a designer but insists on micromanaging the design process will relate.

100 Years of National Parks The website celebrating 100 Years of National Parks Service is a beautiful tribute to the natural beauty of these landmarks. It shows a timeline of the dates leading up to the formation of the National Parks, starting with putting the area around Yosemite under federal protection in 1890, and leading up Pinnacles National Park in 2013.

Easy color palette creation Palettable makes it super easy to create color palettes using keyboard shortcuts. Load the page and see a random color. Dislike it to get a new color, or like it to get an additional coordinating color. Repeat until you have a full palette you love. (You can also adjust the colors manually.)

Curated UX and UI advice AttackTheFront curates and shares a single thought-provoking article about UX and UI design every day. They cover web, app, virtual, and augmented reality, with an archive of more than 190 issues. The site design itself is marvelous, with parallax scrolling to display the most current articles, and an archive with the rest.

Wanna learn HTML? Random HTML Tags gives you just that: every time the page loads, it will give you a random HTML tag along with the definition and how to use it. It also includes the option to find out more about the tag displayed, or to serve up another one. And you can even subscribe by email for a daily random HTML tag in your inbox.

Daily inspiration for creatives Bleech.io is daily inspiration for creatives. They offer up games, scripts, code, buttons, SVGs, and tons of other examples. The site is curated by design agency Bleech. Be sure to check out the email feedback option in the upper right of the home page while you're there.

The psychology of illustrations Can illustrations make you more likely to achieve your goals? Google thinks so, and uses illustrations in their Calendar app to help you set and achieve your goals. The illustrations were designed to inspire people to visualize themselves working toward their goals, and therefore be more likely to actually achieve them.