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FREEBIES
Christmas Time Font
With holiday season upon us, and Christmas Day just four weeks away, now’s the time to get your cards, decorations, and promotions finalized. To help you deliver designs that Santa’s elves would be proud of, we’ve arranged this free font. (Download)
30 Christmas Icons
A set of 30 Christmas icons created with Photoshop vector shapes. Free PSD designed and released by PSDFreebies. (Download)
Elegant Vector Kit
The Elegant Vector Kit is a set of beautifully rendered workspace elements, designed by Nasti Funny. Great for creating hero images, and desktop illustrations, many of the elements are also useful for design mockups. (Download)
Bonie Font
Bonie is a free elegant font dedicated to a Basset hound. Designed and released by qoob design studio. (Download)
800+ Material icons for Sketch
A set of 800+ Material Design icons for Sketch app. A freebie created and released by Luis Silva. (Download)
INSIGHT
Is the Floating Action Button the new Hamburger Menu?
Floating Action Buttons sit apart from the rest of a UI, styled to appear as if floating over the top of content. Almost exclusively a circle, they’re a pleasingly minimal shape, that lends itself to animation. Floating Action Buttons are the natural evolution of the sticky header that have been popular for the last few years.
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How To Make Readers Sit Up With Killer Email Designs
People get a lot of emails. Inboxes are fuller than ever and expected to get fuller, and many email clients now offer segmented inboxes that make it even harder for marketers to get through. How can you stand out from the crowd?
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How Infinite Scrolling Breaks UX
By now, users are more than familiar with infinite scrolling — the design technique that relentlessly keeps refreshing a page when you scroll down it. Ostensibly designed to replace pagination, infinite scrolling has been hailed as friendlier to the user experience and more convenient, but is it really?
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INSPIRATION
Web Design Inspiration: Pricing Tables
Pricing tables are an essential part of most websites selling a service or subscription. There is an endless variety of design option when it come to pricing tables. Here are a couple examples of modern designs, essential layout and animations styles.
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20 “Coming Soon” Pages for Inspiration
Even if your site is still months away from being ready for launch, you should put up a “coming soon” page as soon as possible. A “coming soon” page can help you collect user information, like email addresses and feedback/suggestions.
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The Different Styles of Card Design Layout
What makes card layout design even more refreshing is the different takes you can use to achieve the card style and how adaptable it has become. From tiles, stack, to layers, here are four examples of different ways to use card design in a layout from Dribble.
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