Grabcad

This is an essential reference website for industrial designers, with a lot of organizational or design models shared. There are a total of over 1,430,000 free CAD files to download, and currently, the number of global members has accumulated to 3 million. They often hold industrial design-related competitions, and even if you're not an industrial designer, in the future, when 3D printing becomes popular, you can download materials from the website to print and use. It's a very rich resource website.

 

Flickr-commons

This is a public album project between Flickr and various libraries, which includes photos that have expired copyrights, making them part of the public domain. Additionally, some copyrights have entered the public domain for other reasons, such as not being able to meet the necessary formal procedures or conditions, and some institutions own the copyrights but choose to open source and make them public.

 

Bandicam

Boasting a non-delayed screen recording tool, many people use it to record game live streams. Even for high-level games, it can record videos at a resolution of 2560*1600. It can easily accomplish this, the output file is a specially compressed AVI format, which can be directly uploaded to YouTube. The free version will have a watermark and a 10-minute recording limit.

 

Pexels

This website provides free photos that can be used for commercial purposes under the CC0 license. Additionally, you can subscribe to the monthly hottest photos via email. The interface is in Chinese, but it is suggested to use English when searching. Note that the first row of search results are paid images.

 

故宮博物院典藏圖像

The National Palace Museum provides a large number of high-resolution image files of its collections, which can be downloaded by users. These images include ancient artifacts, documents, calligraphy, and other items. While they cannot be used for commercial purposes, they can be used for educational and learning purposes. For designers, these materials are a valuable resource for reference or modeling, and there are currently about 400 images available. However, the categories and explanations provided may be lacking, and future updates are expected.

 

Thimble

Developed by Mozilla, an online web writing and editing tool, does not require additional software downloads, you can use it through the browser, it is like a fully functional web development tool, allowing you to directly write code in the browser and instantly preview the effect of the web page presented.

 

ColorDrop.io

Web designer Tristan White's website ColorDrop.io is a color palette website that collects some flat design colors that are commonly used. When you go to the website, you can see a series of color combinations. Clicking on the color bar will show you the code for that combination. Additionally, it has a feature that allows you to download your favorite color combinations as a txt file, so you can easily apply it to your web design. The left side of the website, "Flat Colors" allows you to see all the colors and hex color codes in a list, making it a very intuitive color selection tool.

 

Pixtastock

Pixtastock is a Japanese stock photo website that doesn't offer free stock photos, but it has a unique feature of RF (Royalty-free) materials. Once you purchase it, you can use it permanently and apply it to various platforms such as print, web, multimedia, etc. Unlike some other stock photo websites, it doesn't have limitations on usage. However, if you use it in video or product packaging, you need to pay extra. Additionally, photographers can sell their work on the website, allowing designers to purchase and use them. The website prices are in Taiwanese dollars and won't fluctuate due to the exchange rate of Japanese yen. It's a great website to find Asian face stock photos. It also provides invoices for companies to claim their expenses.

 

100hub

The 100hub Willy Host from Japan offers two free hosting plans. The first one is a fully functional 14-day free trial, and the second one is a plan with additional hosting vendor advertisements at the bottom of the website. This plan offers 300MB of space and 6GB of free traffic per month. In addition, there is a Chinese version of the backend interface available. If you find this host to be useful, you can pay to rent the full version without advertisements.

 

思源柔黑體

"Siyuan Soft Black" is a rounded font developed by a Japanese person, who modified the open-source Siyuan Black font. It is available for free download but because it was developed by a Japanese person, some Chinese characters cannot be displayed, such as the "cha" in "chá", which is not able to be shown. This is also the reason why it is rarely shared by Chinese people, However, it is a good choice for titles with fewer characters, Siyuan Soft Black has three styles, from small round corners to large round corners, etc.