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
iOS 10 UI Kit for Sketch
iOS 10 is just around the corner and we can already see the release of some quality UI kit on the web. Download.
Diverse Device Hands by Facebook
The design team at Facebook has released another great free resource called Diverse Device Hands: it is basically a set of phone mockups held by hands that you can use in any presentation of your designs. Download.
The Art Tools Icon Set (AI, SVG & PNG)
Carefully designed by the guys behind Iconshock and Designshock, this week Speckyboy brings you a new icon pack featuring art tools! Download.
24 Unique User Interface Icons
A fresh set of 24 unique user interface outline icons that you may find useful to build admin or dashboard pages. The package includes a SVG and a Sketch files designed and released by Worawaluns. Download.
Alma Mono Font
Alma Mono is a simple monospaced font designed by Daniel Feldt that comes in five weights. Download.
101 Best Free Fonts of 2016, so far (via Web Designer Depot)
2016 has been one of the best years for type design in decades. The lettering craze has pushed a lot of illustrators towards digitizing their work. There’s a ton of great font software available these days. Check them out.
Avatar Vector Collection
With the amount of time we spend online, it seems like more people know us by our avatars than by our faces these days. But who wants a dodgy iPhone selfie, when you can have one of these awesome vector avatars? This set of cool avatars, designed by VectorOpenStock. Download.
INSIGHT
How We Lost 47% of Our Users After a Redesign
The Internet is full of success stories. To balance things out I’ll share the story of one of our colossal fails. Here’s how we redesigned one of our services and lost 47% of its users in the process. This demands some explanation.
Keep reading How We Lost 47% of Our Users After a Redesign
What’s New in Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines for iOS 10
With iOS 10, you can build more powerful apps than ever. As you explore these changes to see how they can benefit your app, pay special attention to the design guidance.
Keep reading What’s New in Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines for iOS 10
10 Reasons Why Placeholders are Problematic
Since placeholders arrived on the scene, they have been rapidly adopted to provide hints and instructions to help users fill in forms. Whilst this sounds good, it is actually problematic due to the way the placeholder behaves — there is one ‘space’ containing two values: the hint and the value.
Keep reading 10 Reasons Why Placeholders are Problematic
Newsletter Signup Forms that Rock – Inspirations, Templates & Tools
A strongly designed newsletter subscription form can help you to dramatically grow your subscribers list, and as a result grow your sales. The email newsletter is a powerful tool for you to communicate with your visitors and clients.
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INSPIRATION
Google Fonts Unveils Huge Redesign
Google Fonts is the latest Google service that’s gotten a design makeover. The directory of free web fonts makes it a cinch for designers to customize fonts, share fonts with their colleagues, and even collaborate on fonts with the original designer.
Keep reading Google Fonts Unveils Huge Redesign
Pharrell Williams Personal Website (AWWWARDS Site of the Day)
Pharrell William’s personal website was recently named Site of the Day by AWARDS. According to the site,
Pharrell WIlliams’ personal/portfolio website lets you discover Pharrell’s world through his fans. This site hosts over 20 years of Pharrell’s music, fashion, art, film and philanthropy projects.
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