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
Houses & Buildings Icons
The set is all about different types of houses and homes. Each icon was carefully illustrated by Manuela Langella and it comes in various useful formats (AI, PDF, SVG, PNG). Download.
Deadline UI Kit for Photoshop
Deadline is a free UI kit for Photoshop including hundreds of elements and 82 awesome screens in 6 different categories: generic, sign in / sign up, ecommerce, blog, profile and menu. Download.
30 Premium Responsive Ecommerce Templates
These premium templates can be used for any upcoming ecommerce projects, including sites built on Magento, PrestaShop, Shopify, Opencart and WooCommerce sites. Download.
Landing UI Kit with 80+ Layouts
Landing UI Kit has tons of handcrafted UI components created to increase your web creating speed, for Sketch and Photoshop. It features a bright color palette that arouses positive emotions and is sure to be loved by almost everyone. Download.
20 Food Images
Looking for a great way to illustrate your food blog? Or maybe you need to spice up a lifestyle app? Or perhaps you’re designing a site for a coffee shop? Whatever your reason, you’ll be delighted to download these free food images supplied by PicJumbo. Download.
INSIGHT
Centered Logos Hurt Website Navigation
Getting back to the homepage is about 6 times harder when the logo is placed in the center of a page compared to when it’s in the top left corner.
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The Seven Deadly Sins of User Experience Design
Doing the right thing by your users can be hard work sometimes. When deadlines are tight, and you are under pressure from above, it can be easier to roll over and make it the user’s problem. Take CAPTCHA for example. Preventing spam without resorting to CAPTCHA is hard work. Instead of coding spam filters or honey traps, we just slap on a CAPTCHA field and make it the user’s problem.
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Flat Design vs. Material Design: How Different They Are
Material design is an improved version of flat design which lays stress on minor skeuomorphic details such as animations, shades, and layers. This, in turn, makes a product feel more intuitive, when it comes to navigation, and allows it to stay faithful to simplicity, when it comes to general style.
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Setting Standards for Usability Testing
Standards and best practices have long been considered beneficial, as they stop us from designing based solely on personal opinion or experiences. To that end, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has created a set of common standards, called ISO 9241, which cover the Ergonomics of Human System Interaction.
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INSPIRATION
You Recognize Mastercard. So Why Is It Changing Its Logo?
The logo still has the overlapping red and yellow circles and sans-serif font, but all the elements are slimmer, flatter, less fussy.
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Payment UX Animation
20 Animated Interfaces: New Ways to Present a Concept
Here are 20 new ways to show off your prototype of an upcoming project to a client.
