Where do you get free design assets for your startup's pages and posts?
Summary: Muhammad Haris provides tips for early-stage founders to use free design assets effectively, suggesting transparent PNGs for versatile icons and decorative elements. They recommend using stock sites for photography and icon libraries for buttons, while advising to check licenses for commercial use. Keeping file sizes small and organizing reusable assets are also key points.
Early-stage founders rarely have a designer on call, yet every page, deck and post still needs to look finished. Free design assets are the shortcut, as long as you use them with a little care.
Start with transparent PNGs for icons, badges and decorative shapes, because they sit cleanly on any background without a white box around them. Stock sites are useful for photography, while icon libraries work well for buttons and feature lists. Keep a folder of assets you reuse, so each new page does not start from a blank canvas.
Check the licence before you use anything, even when it is labelled free, and confirm whether attribution is needed for commercial use. Keep file sizes light by resizing images to the size they will appear at and compressing them before upload, so pages stay fast on mobile. For icons and decorative elements I usually grab a transparent star png and drop it straight into the design.
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