12 Best User Generated Sites For Inspiration
Posted in ResourcesApr 03, 08 | 06:16 pm
Mubashar Iqbal
Sites like Digg prove that user generated content works, but aggregating news is one thing, can they inspire you?
Below you’ll find a list of the best user generated sites to visit when you’re looking for a little inspiration.
Flickr
Allows you to organize and share your photographs with others. A great source of visual inspiration (like my collection of inspiring cityscapes), and also a good place to find some free photographs to use in the your next project, but be sure to check the license first.
Deviant Art
One of the largest art communities where you can submit your art, collect favorites, and track your friends and favorite artists.
Carbonmade
Users build a portfolio of their work for you to view — always good to see what others are doing.
ColourLovers
Users select and vote for their favorite colors and color palettes.
LogoPond
More logos than you can shake a stick at. Although the users don’t get to select what appears on the homepage (yet — hint, hint!) all the logos that are added to the gallery are viewable. A great place to visit if you’re looking for a little brand inspiration.
Cool Site Collection
http://www.coolsitecollection.com
User powered Web design gallery. Members submit and vote on these submissions to select which designs are featured on the homepage.
Vimeo
A thriving community of people who love to make and share video.
DesignSnack
A user-controlled web design showcase, mainly focused on CSS/XHTML (Web Standards) and Flashed-based designs. The members decide which websites are showcased on the front page and which websites aren’t.
Open Source Web Design
Users share their free web design templates.
DesignFloat
Yes it’s a lot like Digg, but it’s for designers, with plenty of user submitted inspiration to go round.
IllyPads
A gallery of beautiful illustrations submitted by users.
Open Source Vector Art
Open source vector art design showcase where the community gets to pick the best designs to be showcased on the front page.
Which user generated sites do you get inspiration from?
inspiring commentary
April 4th, 2008 at 2:22 amTravis
You forgot a couple goodies Mubs:
http://ffffound.com/
http://www.behance.net/
April 4th, 2008 at 2:30 amNikesox
Nice collection here!
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April 4th, 2008 at 7:51 amthomas
Hi,
thx for this list of inspirational resources. i am geeting some inspiration from the sites people submit to my own site: http://sharebrain.info
all the best,
thomas
April 4th, 2008 at 8:34 amTal
imcandy.com – a video portal that pays.
April 4th, 2008 at 11:06 amJonathan Smith
How about the
World’s Largest Collaborative Painting?
http://webcanvas.com
April 4th, 2008 at 12:29 pmigreenspot
nice list, I do visit carbonmade and deviantart, a lot of talented artists there …
April 4th, 2008 at 1:47 pmMatt G
There’s a great site for independent music called thesixtyone.com.
I’ve found some great music there.
April 4th, 2008 at 2:44 pmdm
OSWD hasn’t been updated for many months, a better example would be the very active http://www.opendesigns.org/.
April 4th, 2008 at 4:48 pmNik Chankov
Thanks for sharing some of the services I really doesn’t know
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April 5th, 2008 at 8:32 pmGiles Dawe
Sketchplanet is pretty good for finding pictures:
http://www.sketchplanet.com
April 7th, 2008 at 1:41 amAZ Web Design Studio
Deviant Art is by far one of the greatest websites for any artist looking for inspiration. When I was in art school I used to check the website for a few hours just trying to get inspired, and 80 percent of the time deviant art really helped get my internal pistons moving.
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April 10th, 2008 at 11:35 pmwoo
This is another good one.
http://designgrabs.com
It is a social design gallery. Like Delicious for design junkies.
April 14th, 2008 at 8:16 ambathroombuzz
nice website collections for designers