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
Urban Gardening Icons
This icon set was designed by Manuela Langella and it contains various gardening related icon illustrations. Download.
Metafors: A Clumsy Handwriting Font
Metafors is a little clumsy hand writing font designed and released by Markus Wolf, a graphic designer from Germany. The font comes in TTF and OTF formats and it’s free for personal and commercial use. Download.
26 Progressive and Experimental Fonts
These fonts might be pushing the limits of traditional type design, but the results are stunning. Download.
Creativity & Learning Icon Set
This icon set is all about creativity, learning and experimentation; including all kinds of meaningful pictograms that can come in handy for your next original project. Download.
mononoki: A font for Programming and Code Review
Mononoki is a typeface by Matthias Tellen, created to enhance code formatting.
INSIGHT
Don’t Always Follow the Hype : Avoid These Web Design Pitfalls
Designers should be wary of employing the following trends that can alienate the very people they’re trying to engage.
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Back to the Future: what today’s creatives can learn from yesterday’s design principles
The fact of the matter is, the tenets of good design are, or at least should be, constant – they will never go out of style. Design principles, those set forth by the masters, will never cease to be influential because they touch on base aesthetic instincts that have proven to be indestructible.
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How to Maximize Content in a Minimalist UI Design
Minimalism is a popular style right now that’s as visually stunning as it is useful. The style decreases loading times and increases comprehension, all the while giving the site a refined, elegant look.
Keep reading How to Maximize Content in a Minimalist UI Design
QUIZ: How Well do You Know the UX Must-Knows?
Whether you are a veteran UX designer, a novice or simply intersted in the field – take this quiz and find out if your’e a UX expert.
Take the Quiz: How Well do You Know the UX Must-Knows?
INSPIRATION
Google Play Redesign
This concept for a Google Play redesign isn’t official, but shows where the platform could go in the future.
From the designers:
Google is a big ecosystem with hundreds of different services. Each service needs to have a great interface understandable to common users
Check it out: Google Play Redesign
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ANTI-INSPIRATION
The Internet’s 10 Ugliest Sites
Many of the complex, polished websites you see today belie messy back-ends filled with work-around code. With Brutalist sites, what you see is what you get: Basic code expressed with an equally basic design.
Keep reading The Internet’s 10 Ugliest Sites
New Name and Logo for tronc
On June 2, 2016, Tribune Publishing Company announced that it would rebrand itself as “tronc”, short for “tribune online content’.”
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