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
35 Apple Watch PSD Mockups
A beautiful collection of 35 Apple Watch photographic mockups to showcase your apps. Free PSD released on 12Rockets. Download
Coloured Line Icons (SVG, PNG)
This freebie contains 30 pixel-perfect colored line icons with a design agency theme. Ready to use, they come in PNG format with various sizes and, of course, SVG. Download.
Mobile Device Mockup Templates
These photos are perfect for marketing and for demonstrating how an application would function on a real device. Download.
iPhone 6 Mockups
Photographic iPhone 6 mockups providing Photoshop smart objects. Free PSD created and released by Dmitry Kurash. Download.
Beautiful Freelancer Icon Set For Your Business
Argon Font
Argon is a unique free font built on three tick lines, ideal for headlines and graphic design. The free version only includes letters. Designed and released by Tom Anders Watkins. Download.
Universal Themes Vector Icon Set (100 Icons, SVG)
INSIGHT
Design Trend: How to Create a Cool Split Screen Aesthetic
One screen divided in two. This might be one of the bigger design trends emerging right now. More and more websites are using design patterns that include two vertical or square panels placed side by side. And it’s a nice aesthetic.
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The Value of Accessibility
What if I told you web designers out there that there are people who might visit your website that don’t care what it looks like?
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Best Practices for the UX of Navigation
Navigation is a make or break aspect of the user experience of a site. It is a way for users to find where they need to go, and navigation that is frustrating or unusable will lead to irritated users, high bounce rates and unfinished user flows.
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When It Comes to UX Design, Simplicity Is Overrated
Is simplicity a real thing? Or is design the pursuit of something else entirely? Practically every designer who’s used an iPhone relies on it as the hallmark example of simplicity. This is absurd. The iPhone –which handles phone calls, weather reports, to-do lists, maps, text messages, video, photography, audio recording, games, web use, and about a billion other things – is so far from simple, it’s unbearable to think of the word being applied to it.
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INSPIRATION
Interactive Storytelling 101: The Design Principles Every Content Marketer Must Know
How often do you get excited about a PDF eBook design? I’m guessing hardly ever. The sad truth is that most static marketing assets are pretty predictable when it comes to design. There’s only so much innovation that can happen when working within the confines of an 8.
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Grid Systems for Screen Design
In the 1950s, a small group of Swiss designers started searching for a better way of systematizing how information was organized on the printed page. Their work came to be known as grid design and a handful of pioneers like Joseph Müller-Brockmann and Karl Gerstner produced work that was as beautiful as it was rational.
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