I believe, engineers can make a beautiful design.
I’m an iOS\macOS developer by the background and also make all the designs in my company. Mostly I focus on the product design: defending users’ needs, finding the best solutions, initial prototyping, UX flow, screens. It’s all about making usable products and experiences.
Sometimes, I need to work with marketing design: banners for Christmas, gifs for Black Friday deals, illustration for our open-sources projects (like Awesome Design Tools) or new visuals to test on our marketing landing page… Oh, wow! That’s a lot of work. Luckily, I can grab some free SVG images & illustrations from very kind and talented people in our community. Then make custom changes and use them.
Thanks to all those designers, who allow engineers like me to overcome the struggle with creating custom illustrations.
I’m sure, readers of Prototypr will find these illustrations sites very useful for the day-to-day work: