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
Aquino: A Soft and Bold Sans Serif Font
Aquino is a fresh new, soft bold and free font ideal for logo design and big headlines. It is featured by rounded edges that make it clean and visual. If you need numbers, symbols or language support you can opt for the full version available at Philip Trautmann’s website. Download.
Jakarta: A Lightweight Font
Jakarta is a free light weight font featuring an ultra-modern look. It is ideal for graphic and logo design. Designed and released by Dominique Thiodorus. Download.
Social App Concept Design
This freebie is a social app design concept from Designer Bundle including 11 pixel perfect screens. It is tailored to help creatives design interactive apps or projects. Download.
Instagram Logo 2016 Collection
As many of you know, two days ago Instagram unveiled its new colourful logo. Like it or not, we have collected some useful links where you can download it in several different formats. Download.
INSIGHT
Never Show A Design You Haven’t Tested On Users
The most devilish usability issues are those that haven’t even occurred to you as potential problems; you won’t find all the usability issues just by looking at your design. User testing is a way to be there when it happens, to make sure the stuff you created actually works as you intended, because best practices and common sense will get you only so far. You need to test if you want to innovate, otherwise, it’s difficult to know whether people will get it. Or want it. It’s how you find out whether you’ve created something truly intuitive.
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Print Design to Web Design: How to Transition and What Skills Translate Directly
As web designers, we can still learn a lot from print design and adopt many of its principles to our projects. After all, when first websites came along, our print experience was the only thing we had. From there, it kept evolving and evolving, into the standards that we have today.
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Common Typography Mistakes: Apostrophes Versus Quotation Marks
A common mistake in typography is the use of apostrophes instead of quotation marks. A lot of people just get the two confused, using double apostrophes instead of actual quotation marks. It’s hard to mistake it the other way around, but it will be worth your while to learn the differences.
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Best Practices on Using Video for Web
Video for web is booming and we see the usage growing by the day. I even build a few myself and it taught me new things on the use of video in design and development.
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INSPIRATION
99 Beautiful Ecommerce Website Designs
From Art and Photography, to Food and Drink, this list has all the amazing ecommerce website design inspiration you’ll ever need.
FOR FUN
How to Really Annoy a Graphic Designer
“Can you make the logo design bigger?” If that sentence clouds your vision with red mist, it’s likely that you’re a graphic designer who’s fed up with hearing inexperienced advice from non-designer folk. It also means this infographic is right up your street.
