Every week we collect some of the best web and digital design resources that will be useful for designers. Check out any of the links below and leave any comments about your favourites in the replies.
FONTS
Quirko
A family of 4 free fonts inspired by tall, rounded sans-serif typefaces.
Ikaros
Designed and released by Matt Ellis. Download font.
Coco Gothic
Coco Gothic is a free contemporary sans serif font inspired by grotesque typefaces like Futura and Avantgarde.
ICONS
16 Ai Space Icons
Free Ai designed and released by Justas Galaburda. Download icons.
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INSPIRATION
5 Prototyping Tips That Will Improve Your Process
Visual thinkers, such as designers, can easily visualize an image placeholder box as a striking photograph. In our minds, we can convert a grayscale wireframe into a beautiful website layout that has a well-crafted visual hierarchy.
But for others, placeholders, low-fidelity wireframes, and temporary styling can present a real challenge. If a person can’t picture the final product, how can they be comfortable during the design process?
3 Responsive Design Disasters — and How to Avoid Them
Responsive design methods are very helpful to developers because they allow us to serve content to the widest range of devices without having to maintain separate versions of the site and without some of the negative drawbacks to other methods such as scaling and fluid layouts.
This article highlights the top 3 mistakes designers encounter with responsive designs, and provides some strategies for avoiding these mistakes.