Every week we collect some of the best web and digital design resources that will be useful for designers. This week, we’re kicking off 2015 with a super-sized edition that features PSD templates for mock-ups, fonts, icons, and a plethora of articles and collections to inspire designs for the year to come.
Check out any of the links below and leave any comments about your favourites in the replies.
ICONS
As flat design continues to dominate web and mobile trends, icons are becoming increasingly important. Here we’ve collected a large selection of great icons to complement any web or mobile design.
Click any of the images below to access the icons:
100 Stroke Icons
Dashel – 45 Free Icons
30 Flat Circular Vector Icons
60 Business Icons
8 Shopping Line Icons
12 Outline House Icons
Glassy Icon Set
MOCKUPS
As mobile continues to dominate trends this year, mock-ups for the most popular devices will come in handy. Click on any of the images below to download PSDs for these smartphone mockups.
8 Nexus 6 PSDs
Lumia 1520 PSDs
5 iPhone 6 Plus PSDs
FONTS
Gidole Sans
Cabana
Abbie Script
Fonesia
Alif
Panton
Article: The A to Z of Typography
Article: Testing & Planning Typography Choices for the Web
Designing a font library for a new website is no picnic in Central Park. The process can feel like a chore when you have so much to choose from and no clear direction. But when you have the ability to test out font choices the whole process becomes much smoother and simpler.
UX BEST PRACTICES
Icons in Web Design: Tips, Resources, and Examples
This guide includes helpful tips, freebies, and tutorials for web designers who want to implement natural-looking icons into their layouts.
15 Landing Pages with Outstanding UX
In the last few years, there’s been a real shift in design trends that focuses on gorgeously designed landing pages. Whether it’s for an iPhone app, a web app, a service or a physical product, the bar for landing page design has been raised year on year.
17 Usability Testing Myths and Misconceptions
Usability testing has been around so long that it’s the most well-known and most frequently practiced user research method. So I find it amazing that there are still so many misconceptions about usability testing. –
Increasing User Engagement with Rewarding Interactions
Rewards fuel our motivation. They let us know we’re doing something right and enable us to continue on our quest to learn something new or achieve a goal. A variable schedule of rewards, those received unexpectedly, are even more effective at this because naturally, humans crave predictability.
Making and Breaking UX Best Practices
Imagine a website with a beautiful, enticing, full-screen image, where a transparent button leads to pages of well constructed, adaptive content. The navigation functions perfectly across devices, switching from a horizontal to a mobile menu at just the right times.
INSPIRATION
How Your Favorite Apps Will Look On The Apple Watch
The digital agency Huge envisions how Uber, Instagram, Foursquare, and other major apps might work on the Apple Watch. The hotly anticipated Apple Watch is expected to go on sale this year.
Has flat design gone too far?
These days, it seems, you can’t turn anywhere on the web without hearing about or directly encountering flat design in some way, shape or form. What started out as a mere design trend just a couple of years ago is now clearly a mainstream design aesthetic that’s a force to be reckoned with.
How Button Color Contrast Guides Users to Action
Have you ever clicked a wrong button by accident? Users make wrong decisions on modal windows when they’re not guided in the right direction. Many modals prompt users to act without making the different actions clear.
4 Simple Ways to Perfect the UX of Mobile eCommerce
Shopping on a mobile device can be a nightmare. It’s possible however, to create a smooth and delightful shopping experience. Mobile devices are small and have little screen real estate so it’s important to embrace this limitation instead of fighting it.
Inspirational Examples of UI Style Guides
According to Wikipedia, a UI style guide is a ‘set of standards for the writing and design of documents’ and that it ‘ensures consistency and enforces best practice in usage.’ All very true.
Examples of Full-Screen Background Images
Using a big background image is a popular web design trend. If you’re considering the use of large background images in your next design project, check out these 20 beautiful sites for inspiration.
15 Top Website Galleries for Your Design Inspiration
We all need inspiration from time to time, and if you have hit a brick wall when trying to conjure up ideas for your next project, it is good to have an arsenal of places you can find a total bombardment of inspiring designs to jump-start your creative juices again.
Online Magazine Website Layouts for Design Inspiration
Blogs and online magazines have their own unique style of web design. This post has lots of examples demonstrating this unique style along with similar trends.
