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
8 Fresh Free Fonts for Your Designs
Here are a few new fonts to spice up your designs. Download
Phenomena Font Family
Phenomena is a free font family based on round geometric shapes, designed by Radomir Tinkov and Plamen Motev. It includes 7 different weights and more than 500 glyphs with a wide range of languages (extended Latin, Cyrillic, Bulgarian, etc.). Download.
Google Allo: UI kit for Photoshop
Allo is a new messaging app introduced at Google I/O 2016. This download is a UI kit for Photoshop created and released by Prasil Lakshmanan that you may find useful for inspiration or for taking a closer look at its design. Download.
Aware Mobile UI Kit: 12 App Screens
This download is a sample pack from Aware Mobile UI Kit by Komol Kuchkarov that can assist you in creating fast designs for your project. Download.
The Free Web and Mobile Wireframing & Layout Kit
This freebie is a complete collection of wireframing tools, perfect for web and mobile mockups, planning out sitemaps and quickly creating UX flow charts and maps. Download.
INSIGHT
Privacy Laws and Bad UX
Cookie notifications: those small boxes asking users to acknowledge that a site has cookies – those data packets that allow people to be identified and tracked. The notifications are widely reviled by designers, and users find them annoying, aggravating, or at best, easy to ignore.
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14 Articles to Improve Your User Research
Conducting user research is a skill in itself, with techniques and best practices as intricate as other design disciplines. Luckily, those that came before have shared their advice in these 14 articles on improving your user research.
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Wireframing Do’s and Don’ts Every Web Designer Should Know!
Will users stick around a website if they can’t navigate it easily? They won’t, at least not for long. Web designers know this. They also know that the information on a website must be properly structured for it to make sense.
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The Principles of UX Choreography
The intersection of Disney and UX and why learning how to draw Mickey Mouse will change how you approach design.
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15 UI/UX Mistakes That Can Ruin Your Mobile App
Want your app to become the next big thing? A winner in the online marketplace? For that you have to carve a niche amidst the other 3.9 million apps (yes, that’s what the number has reached to in the mobile world) present in the app store.
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INSPIRATION
Designing Comments, Discussion, and Feedback For the Web
In this age of content saturation on the web, one opportunity for online publishers to stand out is through their respective communities. The communities which surround and make use of websites are massively important, and how they interact with those websites, and each other, is equally important.
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Major redesign unveiled for Google Search
Perhaps in a nod to the popularity of card-based design, Google has begun to roll out a new look to its mobile Search results. Dubbed “rich cards” in a post on Google’s blog, this new design is a direct successor to the company’s rich snippets feature.
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