The following is a list of 5 resources that are used by professional UI/UX designers, product teams, and creative practitioners regularly in real design scenarios. They each have their own function, and when used together, you have a research toolkit that provides you with both behavioral and visual tools to use in your research.
1. Page Flows
When you need to understand how a competitor structures its onboarding experience, or how a leading SaaS product guides users through a subscription upgrade, this is where that investigation begins. You can learn more here about how the platform has built one of the most comprehensive libraries of recorded user flows available to working designers today. Rather than presenting isolated screenshots, Page Flows captures real interactions from live products - full-motion recordings of sign-up sequences, password recovery workflows, checkout processes, account management experiences, and dozens of other common UX scenarios.The strength of this approach is context. A static screenshot tells you what a screen looks like; a recording tells you what happens between screens. Watching transitions, microinteractions, gestures, and navigation patterns in real time helps you understand how every element earns its place in the broader experience. Page Flows strengthens this further with detailed annotations on each recorded flow, calling out specific UX decisions, visual hierarchy choices, and interaction behaviors. Rather than encouraging designers to replicate what they see, those notes explain the reasoning behind effective patterns - turning passive browsing into something closer to a structured critique.
2. Mobbin
Mobbin has become one of the most practical references for designers focused on specific interface patterns across mobile and web. The platform compiles thousands of screens and flows from widely used apps spanning fintech, health, e-commerce, travel, and productivity - organized around UI components and user flow types rather than broad visual categories. Search for something like "empty state screens" or "step-by-step onboarding," and you'll immediately surface relevant examples from multiple recognizable products side by side.The specificity of Mobbin is its usefulness. Screens are annotated with comprehensive metadata, allowing them to be filtered by platform, category and design element. In 2023 a new part of the website dedicated to web design was added, which made it much more useful for work on the desktop. The ability to compare real-life implementations of the same UX problem in one interface saves hours of manual app-store research for designers developing component libraries or benchmarking how different apps are solving the same problem. This is not so much an inspiration platform, but rather a pattern reference platform, and it does a great job at that.
3. Dribbble
Dribbble occupies a different space in the design ecosystem entirely. It's a community platform where designers share their own work - polished product screens, dashboard concepts, icon systems, illustration work, and motion design all live here alongside each other. Content quality varies considerably, but the volume of active contributors means fresh material surfaces around the clock.Where Dribbble earns its place in a serious designer's workflow is in visual trend awareness. Regular time on the platform gives you a reliable reading of where interface aesthetics are heading - color directions gaining momentum, evolving takes on dark mode, emerging patterns in data visualization, and shifts in typographic sensibility. It won't teach you about user behavior or conversion, but as a pulse-check on the visual culture of the industry, it's genuinely hard to beat. The search and tagging system has improved substantially, and filtering by terms like "SaaS dashboard," "mobile UI," or "design system" makes it possible to cut through the noise and find relevant work quickly.
4. Awwwards
In the realm of web design, Awwwards has one of the most reputable curation standards for years. Juried for design, usability, creativity and content quality, sites that are submitted to the platform are reviewed. The work is recognised here, from daily mention to Site of the Month; it has passed a really high hurdle on several fronts. They're not only pretty pages, but pages that are designed with intent to reinforce the craft, pages that judges from all over the industry have independently confirmed.The accompanying jury comments and the scores from each of the recognized sites is something that most galleries don't include - a critical framework for understanding why a piece of work has been successful. Awwwards is a project that's more experimental, agency-focused than it is a template for normal product projects, so while it's a good place to find ideas to stretch your creative muscles, it shouldn't be considered a template for your everyday project work. However, if you rotate it on a regular basis, then your visual thinking won't get stale and you'll be able to expand your perspective beyond the regular interface conventions.
5. Behance
Adobe's Behance is unique among all of these platforms because it's not an edited showcase; it's a portfolio system, and it makes a difference in how you use it. If you see a strong piece of work on Behance, chances are that you are looking at a case study: research phases, wireframe iterations and rationale on why design choices were made. That level of process transparency is hard to come by when designers are looking for a way to learn how professional designers engage with a truly complicated brief.The breadth of disciplines on the platform means that you have to be careful what you're looking at, but the curated Adobe Design collections are always quality. Sticking to the process of individual designers that you are interested in will yield greater consistent value as opposed to the algorithm on the front page that is volume-based.
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