From Scattered Bookmarks to Strategic Curation: Building Designroadmap
How solving my own resource discovery problem became Designroadmap—a focused, quality-first alternative to overwhelming design directories
👤 Role
Founder, Product Designer
💼 Industry
Personal Project → Community Resource
📅 Duration
6 months (ongoing)
Context
Designroadmap is a curated design resource platform that helps designers cut through the noise and find tools that actually matter. As someone actively studying, working, and job hunting, I experienced firsthand the frustration of spending more time searching for resources than actually using them in an increasingly noisy digital landscape.
Have you've ever bookmarked 47 tabs only to forget why they mattered?
Problem Space
As I was learning and working in design, I kept bookmarking tools, articles, and frameworks. The internet offers abundance but lacks curation—every search led to more tabs, more overwhelm, and less actual productivity.
This left me overwhelmed by choice paralysis during critical learning and working moments.
Solution
Built Designroadmap as a curated collection of resources I've actually used and tested—organized for real designer workflows, updated regularly, without the noise. Launched as an MVP using Framer.
Impact
8K +
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