Every week we collect some of the best digital and web 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

20 PSD Scene Creators

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PSD Scene creators and mockup generators are extremely valuable freebies any web and app designer should have! These free scene creators and mockup generators will help designers showcase their work in a professional manner, create beautiful. Download.

PlayStation UI Kit

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Francesco Cutolo, a UI/UX designer from Italy who has just released how he thinks the Playstation mobile app should be as a UI kit. Download.

 

Top 50 Free Web UI Kits & Templates 2016

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To help get you up and running with your next app or website, SpeckyBoy put together a roundup of some of my favourite UI kits that are all available for free. Download.

 

Font: Hal

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Hal is a headline sans serif typeface with an industrial, utilitarian, condensed design style. Hal is a free typeface and currently only comes in one weight. The typeface includes extended language support, alternate glyphs, arrows, ligatures and more. Download.

 

Font: Milda

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This is a semi-serif modern typeface inspired by “Rotis” and “Didot”. Elegant, simple and feminine display font. The font is excellent for fashion or lifestyle magazines, posters or digital use. Download.

 

Font: Knucklehead Regular

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Knucklehead is a mono-weight vintage typeface inspired to western culture designed by Mihiş Alexandru that comes with 3 different styles. It is best suitable for graphic design, headlines and tattoos. Download.

 

Starbucks: Sketch iOS app design concept

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This is a Starbuck app design concept for iOS designed by Lorenzo Bocchi, Art Director and Designer from Australia. The project includes 5 screens and 32 components for Sketch that you can use for inspiration for building your own UI kit. Download.

 

Music Player UI Kit PSD

Music Player UI

Free music player UI Kit PSD contains many screens that will give you inspiration for your own music app UI. This kit is come with cool colors and the style of the design. This UI kit fully layered and very easy to customize which you adapt to your needs. Download.

 

60+ Delicious Foodie Freebies for Restaurants and Culinary Blogs

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Update your design toolbox with 60 more freebies. The collection includes dozens of free design resources for food blogs, cafes, and restaurants especially for you. Download.

 

20 Photoshop Actions for Graphic and Web Designers

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Adobe Photoshop actions are essential tools for designers that can be used to ease their workflow. These automated scripts do all the work for you in just a few seconds and can be real time-savers when it comes to repetitive tasks. Download.

 

INSIGHT

The Biggest Problem Facing UX Design

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How can design—something that companies have traditionally assessed according to the taste of a few important people—prove to a company that it’s providing real, measurable value?

Keep reading The Biggest Problem Facing UX Design

 

The Name of the Practice Is Information Architecture

If you ask senior practitioners of information architecture, they’ll tell you that information architecture is central to the creation of human-computer interfaces. But the fact of the matter is that the popular view of information architecture represents just a very small subset of its total value.

Keep reading The Name of the Practice Is Information Architecture

 

4 UX mistakes almost every designer makes

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As a designer you’re expected to make the impossible happen. Time and time again, you’re expected to take an incredibly complex process and make it easy, simple and beautiful. When it’s handled well, you feel like a rock star. When we fail to live up to those heavy expectations, it leaves many of us feeling… deflated.

Keep reading 4 UX mistakes almost every designer makes

 

How to create effective push notifications

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When it comes to creating new formats like notifications, we revert to the old paradigms of creating content. For such a new technology, notifications have become real bland, real quick.

Keep reading How to create effective push notifications

 

INSPIRATION

10 Recent Inventive Examples of Animation in Web Design

In a creative profession like web design, inspiration plays a huge part in your daily work schedule. It’s not always easy to come across inspiration which is why I started collecting all of the little snippets of inspiration I could find with my new side project.

Check out 10 Recent Inventive Examples of Animation in Web Design

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