I was feeling uninspired by online boards... so I began taking photos on walks for a physical scrapbook. It's helped my color and pattern choices a lot... Do you collect real-world things for your design work?
In my experience, mimicking the subtle imperfections of hand-poured concrete textures in digital backgrounds added the human touch I was missing, but your mileage may vary.
The shift toward purely digital inspiration repositories has streamlined access at the cost of the tactile, contextual understanding that fuels deeper creative connections.