Every week we collect some of the best web and digital design resources that will be useful for designers. This week features a variety of fonts to add to your collection, some insight into mobile menu design, and some inspiration for back-to-school designs.
Check out any of the links below and leave any comments about your favourites in the replies.
FREEBIES
Font: Sickboy
Sickboy is a handmade font, which comes in handy for everyone who looks for a fresh and nice look. This font has that truly authentic natural look which will make your designs pop! The font is made by the talented font creator Koen van der Bliek.
⇢ Link: Sickboy – Free Handwritten Display Font
UI Kit: LiquidPro for Photoshop
LiquidPro is a free UI kit for Photoshop released by the design team at DtailStudio. The freebie comes in PSD file format and provides a lot of useful and ready to be used components for getting started with your website or app design.
⇢ Link: LiquidPro: A free UI kit for Photoshop
60 Free Photoshop Gradient Sets to Improve Your Graphics
Gradients are really not on the peak of their popularity today. They are not on the list of trendy flat style features either. However, sometimes we need to come back to the good old things to spice up our designs.
⇢ Link: 60 Free Photoshop Gradient Sets to Improve Your Graphics
50 Free Vintage Fonts to Forget About Lobster Forever
Do you know why the Lobster font is often called a “new Comic Sans”? Good design should be invisible, and the main problem of Lobster is that it has a very distinctive character. Once you know what Lobster looks like, you will not mistake it for anything else.
⇢ Link: 50 Free Vintage Fonts to Forget About Lobster Forever
100 Nature Icons
This set of 100 nature icons designed by vecteezy.com is the perfect antidote to the austere, minimalist line icons used everywhere.
⇢ Link: 100 Nature Icons
250+ Free Material Design Backgrounds You Should Download
Material design is an extremely popular web design trend nowadays and you must take advantage of it! Make sure your freebies collection has enough Material resources, such as these free Material design backgrounds or these Material UI elements.
⇢ Link: 250+ Free Material Design Backgrounds You Should Download
9 Free Minimalistic Fonts To Use On Your Next Project
Regardless if it’s about print, logo, packaging or web design, minimalistic fonts are an integral part of the process for every designer who wants to create eye-catching, effective and memorable graphic design projects.
⇢ Link: 9 Free Minimalistic Fonts To Use On Your Next Project
20 Free Bootstrap Grid Systems PSD Templates
Bootstrap includes an excellent collection of pre-designed elements that were created using CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. You can use its neat features to build professional websites with powerful features.
⇢ Link: 20 Free Bootstrap Grid Systems PSD Templates
Cheerful Summer Greeting Cards
Freepik and Flaticon have prepared this set of free vectors to create your ideal summer cards for a party or just to wish somebody a great vacation. With bright colors and a cheerful mood, these adorable cards will brighten anyone’s day.
⇢ Link: Cheerful Summer Greeting Cards by Freepik and Flaticon
INSIGHT
How You Can Leverage the Nudge in Your Digital Marketing
A few years ago, we covered some prime examples of nudge marketing. As you can tell from that post, we love a good nudge campaign – it’s a subtle, simple way to get a lot of bang for your marketing buck. So we’re back today with some more examples of how the humble nudge can be used well.
⇢ Link: How You Can Leverage the Nudge in Your Digital Marketing
How to optimise your landing pages for multi-channel marketing
Building a high-converting landing page isn’t easy. Unfortunately, it’s not any easier when you’re designing a landing page for a multi-channel marketing campaign, with multiple devices, platforms, and points of origin to take into account.
⇢ Link: How to optimise your landing pages for multi-channel marketing
Why Mobile Menus Belong at the Bottom of the Screen
The way you use your mobile phone can affect your brain. A research study has found that daily mobile phone users have a larger somatosensory cortex. That’s the region of the brain that controls the thumbs.
⇢ Link: Why Mobile Menus Belong at the Bottom of the Screen
4 Smart Ways to Use Illustration in UI Design
As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. Human beings are highly visual creatures able to process visual information almost instantly—90 percent of all information that we perceive and that gets transmitted to our brains is visual.
⇢ Link: 4 Smart Ways to Use Illustration in UI Design
Great Artists Reuse: Reusable Patterns in Product Design
Blindly copying work of others will not make you a great designer. Working with users will.
So how do we remix what exists to build a great user experiences? To start with, we have to understand key differences between the two kinds of copying in design.
⇢ Link: Great Artists Reuse: Reusable Patterns in Product Design
INSPIRATION
50+ Back to School Design Ideas 2017 for Atmospheric Class Reunion
You can find here anything from back to school banners, backgrounds, and icons to school supply labels, stickers, and badges. You’re also free to choose from a variety of styles including flat, hand-drawn, watercolor, retro, etc. So, scroll down and pick the school template you like the most.
⇢ Link: 50+ Back to School Design Ideas 2017 for Atmospheric Class Reunion
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