RIP dribbble.

no fresh works or ideas for a long-long-long time

Did Donald Trump write this? lol

What are you talking about? Do you have usage stats to back up your claim? What threshold have you set for "fresh works or ideas" other than your personal taste?

I've found Dribbble to be an invaluable portfolio resource both to reference other's takes on UI elements and for getting job leads.

Forrst.

oh, wait..

Stop browsing 'popular' and curate your following list.

Dribbble just had a sold-out conference in Boston. Sounds dead to me.

Dribbble bought Crew back in April and shows no sign of financial troubles. What are you seeing that makes you think it's a "dying platform?"

Fake news!

I see the opposite. It’s become more popular and the work has generally increased in quality. The problem still persists, however, that it’s an echo chamber and much of what’s posted is without substance. Dribbble could easily fix this by adding some feature that allowed you to post your thoughts, story, and process around the final visual design.

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Not everything posted on Dribbble is or has to be UI / UX btw ... just saying.

• Option 1) Just Google "UI Inspiration" There are tons of sites. DN also had a post about Little Big Details has returned.
• Option 2) Post original work on dribbble and stop complaining
• Option 3) Create an inspirational site and fixes the gap

The fact that this thread exists and many of the comments here are evidence of the failure of Dribbble and Designer News to be meaningful design communities.

Dribbble is what you make of it, much like DN or any other community based website. The popular page, what people consider the 'best' designs, is just watered down nonsense 90% of the time. Fancy neon blob gradient filled unusable UI or debut shots welcoming people to the community, I feel there is very little 'actual' project work but by curating your feed and finding people who do similar work or are in similar situations as yourself is the best way to use the platform.

2 features I'd love to see on Dribbble are 1 - having the ability to block/hide people who do post utter crap and always end up on the popular page because Wowe nice colurz and 2 - having an option to mark uploads as actual project work - not just having folders for them as this doesn't help when searching or filtering

https://www.deviantart.com/

I've found UpLabs to be quite good, I learned of it when someone promoted one of my dribbble shots there (It credits you automatically). You are on to something though, the places I used to use for inspiration seem dated now, pttrns for example.

The site isn't dead it's just popular.

There's fresh work on all the "old" platforms, it just doesn't get most viewed because people have to put effort into finding them.

Hell I still prefer behance because it shows more complete projects, and more than just things in the UI scope.

Buahaha really? Those morons killed themselves? And they were SOOOO proud and confident with all those "invitations only" signings... buahaha... Rest in Pieces, Dribbble.

Wishful thinking

I think problem with Dribbble is the terrible search and discovery functions.

I don't get why am I still seeing a post from 2013 as a 'popular' in the year of 2018. Shouldn't it be used more now? The views and likes should have overwritten the 2013 posts by now. It's just bottlenecking maybe some very talented people from getting seen.

I'd love to see prospects getting features instead of some bullshit freebie vlogging designers that knows how to handle social media well. Like that beardy dude last year.

If they had some sorf of a curation team that could nitpick some works or approach this in a more editorial way I think it's still a really great source of inspirations.

It's just that they are are not trying anything which is a shame because they are still the top platform and there's tons to invest.

People really love shitting on one of the few platforms for designers that isn't a total financial black hole or foothold for big advertising. Take behance for example, that website was good for maybe 5 minutes, until it was overwhelmed with the most pathetic cavalcade of mediocrity that you had ever seen.

Not to mention behance basically became another softcore porn site where so-called "photographers" could display their art, that and every 2-bit blog and vaguely design related site could sell their dog shit floral packs or ripped fonts. In addition to those things, behance quickly became a perfect example of capitalism, works in theory yet totally controlled by the 100 people at the top who maintain all the influence and focus, this due to the millions of half-wit morons that think by commenting "this is fantastic, you should check out my portfolio here :)" will someone get people to go view their 2 bit derived nonsense clogging up the servers.

So i think that dribbble, whilst full of average shite and visual porn, still is the only place where work can at least be slightly curated, invitation-only is the best system we have and it sure beats the hell out of giving any egg roll with a crayon a creative license and medium to share their "work". You may get derivatives and replicas and trends on tap, but how else is any prospective employer going to hire you, no one cares about your amazing design solution if it looks like shit, thats the way of the world, so if people get upset that not every designer is reinventing the wheel, then creativity is not for you. Everything ever made anytime was derived from something else.

End Rant :)

The title is over the top. Dribbble is still top webdesign resource for most people. Does it have the same level of works as before. Hmm not always, as it's now use mostly by small agencies and software houses to find new clients and in order to achieve that they post a lot of crazy stuff. But then again just don't follow them, follow the designers. There are still so many great people there posting they fantastic works.

Btw. What I use now more often then dribbble is http://www.land-book.com At least you know that those are real projects and you can experience how it works.

But I still haven't got my invitation :( (yet)

Maybe it's that UX and UI design has had "no fresh works or ideas for a long-long-long time", not the platform that people are sharing them on.

The problem with Dribbble is a bad search and tagging function.

uplabs seems to be a good one.

Let’s agree to disagree.

could someone send me an invite, Ive been dying for one! https://www.behance.net/ramonable

I've been liking Behance lately.