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
Rolade: An all caps rounded font
Rolade is a free uppercase font ideal for logo design, and big titles. It is featured by regular, rounded shapes and condensed proportions. This freebie includes 3 weights (regular, bold, thin) and the oblique style for each weight. Download.
15 Beautifully Imperfect Brush Fonts
Distorted and irregular, yet beautifully imperfect. Every individual character unique and painstakingly handmade. Vintage in style yet seamlessly blends in with the modern. Download.
Flat Business Icon Set
This is a modern collection of business-themed, flat-styled icons. Download.
12 Music Icons
This is a set of 12 colourful and pixel perfect music icons designed by Pramod Kabadi, a talented designer from Bengalore. Icons are vector based provided for both Sketch and Illustrator. Hope you enjoy them! Download.
Minimal Mobile Chat UI Kit
Chat is a a minimal mobile UI kit from InVision. Immerse users in minimal, thoughtful designs using Chat’s free iOS app templates, tablet templates, and web templates—available for Sketch and Photoshop. Download.
Sketch based on Material Design
A free app UI kit created with Sketch featured by minimal and clean design. It is based on Google Material Design and includes 13 useful screens. Freebie released by Mohamed Kerroudj. Download.
Device Mockups by Facebook
Facebook supports a diverse audience around the world and an equally diverse set of devices. To emphasize that in our design mocks, we redrew a range of devices to show the global diversity of the people using our products. Download.
Olios: Ecommerce PSD template
Olios is a minimal and elegant website template for ecommerce. You can use it for your upcoming projects or just for inspiration. Free PSD released by Patryk Wąsik. Download.
INSIGHT
The 5 Most Overused Design Elements You Should Retire
Everybody has their design pet peeves. Some of them are pretty universal. We have all cringed when opening the website of an otherwise respectable company only to find that the entire thing is in comic sans or papyrus. We’re also beginning to feel the same way about Lobster.
Keep reading The 5 Most Overused Design Elements You Should Retire
Is your website layout doing more damage than you think?
Building a website can be nerve-wracking. Underneath all the design decisions that you have to make, is something even more important: your website’s layout.
Keep reading Is your website layout doing more damage than you think?
How to build an experience map
An experience map shows the journey a customer has while experiencing a product or service. It also shows what competitors and your business are doing relative to this journey.
Keep reading How to build an experience map
Five Principles for Effective Animation in UX
Animation is a crucial part of digital experiences. The interactivity of software and websites is brought to life by animations. They differentiate digital as non-static, fluid experiences.
Keep reading Five Principles for Effective Animation in UX
INSPIRATION
PayPal relaunches its mobile apps with minimal new design
In a move that’s a first in the company’s history, PayPal has redesigned its mobile apps completely from scratch. The bold decision comes as PayPal seeks to satisfy various business goals.
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