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.
FREEBIES
208 Weather Icons
A complete webfont including 208 weather icons (stroked and filled versions) ready to be used in your website designs. The package also include SVG files. A freebie released by Pixeden. (Download)
Ruffle Beauty Font
Ruffle Beauty is a free handwriting font ideal for graphics and poster design. Created by Anis Iday. (Download)
50 Misc. PSD Icons
Amenities is a set including 50 pixel perfect PSD icons provided in two different styles (outlined and filled). It has been created with Photoshop vector shapes and released exclusively for Freebiesbug by Dot on Paper. (Download)
17 Vintage Logos
A free collection of 17 vintage/retro vector logos that you can use for branding purposes. Free PSD released on AlienValley. (Download)
INSIGHT
7 Methods for Improving UX with Motion Design
Animation in apps has taken on a new and improved meaning. Unlike the flashy, confusing website animations of the old days, new animation is clean, smooth, and easy to navigate. Forget what you know about GIFs, obnoxious ads, and Flash websites. Those are things of the past.
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Responsive vs. Adaptive: What’s Best for Designers?
What’s the difference? Responsive is fluid and adapts to the size of the screen no matter what the target device. Responsive uses CSS media queries to change styles based on the target device.
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UX Factors That Affect Your Website’s SEO Rankings
When starting a website or blog, the user experience needs to be in the forefront of our minds.
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INSPIRATION
Background Music is Still A Thing on Hospitality Websites
We are going way back to when background music was a popular thing that plagued the internet, even before Myspace profiles pages blasted theme music. Even though it reflected “personality” and set a scene, background music was considered more of a nuisance.
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A New Responsive Font Format for the Web
Nick Sherman gave a fascinating talk at Ampersand earlier this month which was based on an article he wrote called Variable Fonts for Responsive Design.
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The Latest Web Design Tools Made To Focus On Design
Web design tools have not been keeping up. Trends are evolving so fast designers cannot keep up using traditional tools. As a result, Designers are then forced to resort to learning various forms of code.
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