Design & Visual Skills

Tools real designers use in 2026 — from Figma alternatives that don't lock your file to vector + raster + 3D + icon libraries. Most are free; pro features cost nothing more than your time to learn them.

For: UI/UX designers, brand designers, illustrators, dev-designers18 tools · 6 free preview

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penpot

Self-hostable Figma. The serious OSS design tool — used by orgs that don't want vendor lock.

Figma alternative

excalidraw

Hand-drawn whiteboarding. Best for wireframes, IG carousels, conference talk visuals.

Sketching

tldraw

Modern Excalidraw alternative. More polished, embeddable as a library.

Whiteboard

KDE

krita

Best-in-class brush engine. The free Photoshop for digital artists.

Digital painting

GNOME

gimp

Free Photoshop alternative. Lighter than Krita for quick edits + screenshots.

Raster editor

inkscape

Free Adobe Illustrator. Used by logo designers + technical illustrators worldwide.

Vector editor

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3D + motion
Icon library
Color systems
UI components
Animated components
UI animations
Fonts
Image placeholders
Image processing
PDF viewer/render

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