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
ANURATI Font
ANURATI is a free uppercase font with a futuristic flavour. It is best suitable for headlines and poster design. Designed and released by Emmeran Richard. Download.
Picons Social: 60 Social Icons
Picons Social is a set of 60 free social icons provided in two different styles. The package includes many different sizes and formats (Ai, EPS, PDF, PSD, CSH, PNG and SVG). Released by Picons. Download.
20 Free Mobile UI Kits for iOS & Android
The free UI kits are compatible with either iOS or Android, with each packaged with an extensive collection of customizable screens and 100s of UI elements. Download.
Chat: Minimal UI Kit
Chat is a free minimal user interface kit for apps including 60 templates, 12 categories, and 80 UI elements. It includes both Photoshop and Sketch files. Released by InVision. Download.
INSIGHT
How to Use UI Kits to Create Quicker Mockups
UI kits come equipped with the starting blocks you need for a design, all premade so you can use them “straight from the box.”
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3-Minute UX Tips: Wireframe in Content Blocks
Using content blocks before more specific layouts helps you organize your thoughts and prioritize important elements. Even more basic than boxes and arrows, content blocks allow you designate broader screen areas for certain types of content before making more advanced layout decisions.
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The Vital Guide to Web Design Interviewing
Hiring web designers can be difficult. There are many disciplines under the common term ‘designer,’ and experts in one field may be novices in another, while others are a “Jack of all trades, master of none.
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INSPIRATION
6 Web Design Trends That Are Here To Stay
Web design thrives on two things: innovation and imitation. Unfortunately, there’s often a lot more of the latter. Stop chasing microtrends, and start looking at the big picture. Here, we’ve isolated six web design ideas that are here to stay.
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Design Trend: Parallax With a Twist
The newest trend in web design has inklings of parallax, but it’s not quite parallax. It involves moving elements, but it’s not really animation.
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Responsive web design: What the Internet looks like in 2016
Offer website visitors the best user experience by designing for each device. Whether a website is being viewed on a phone or computer, or being browsed with a mouse or touchscreen, it should look and function properly.
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