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
Fina – Ultra Thin Modern Font
Meet Fina – a beautiful, thin, modern font suited for all kind of creative design works. It’s also great for headlines: capital letters are with dots and points and lowercase are without them. Download.
Pollution & Energy Icons
This icon theme is “pollution and energy”, showcasing some pictograms for environmental hazards, non-renewable and renewable energy sources, toxic wastes and more. Download.
35 Checkout & Delivery Icons
An incredible set of 35 coloured checkout and delivery icons for your ecommerce projects. All icons are fully editable as they come in many different formats: AI, EPS, SVG, Sketch, PSD and PNG. Designed by EpicPxls for Codrops. Download.
20 Payment Method & Credit Card Icon Sets
One small and often overlooked aspect of web and mobile app eCommerce are those tiny icons that are used to signify the various accepted payment methods. They’re an essential element of any eCommerce site. Download.
10 Free WordPress Themes for Small Businesses
WordPress can be used to create a wide variety of websites. You can build portfolio sites, news sites and even business and corporate websites with the help of WordPress. Download.
INSIGHT
Designing for gestures
With mobile becoming the platform of choice for more users these days, gestures are becoming more relevant than ever. Those little actions that enable interaction with a mobile device, gestures are given little thought by users because they’re focusing more on the results of their gestures on the screen.
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4 Techniques To Add More Life to Flat UI Design
Once shunned by flat design purists, the use of subtle effects is becoming synonymous with flat design. Simple effects fix the biggest problem associated with the design style – that user interface elements and calls to action were often hidden, “lost,” or difficult to find. The addition of small effects have gone a long way to resolve this issue.
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How to Usability Test Your Site for Free
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Usability testing can be one of those things that designers conveniently ‘forget’ about. Why? Well, usability testing, as it is generally practiced, costs money. Simply put, there are times when any kind of paid service, on top of every other expense, is not an option. This, is usability testing for the rest of us…
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INSPIRATION
Here’s 14 Typographers With Their Favorite Fonts
We all have a go-to font that we love to use in our designs. But which fonts do the experts faithfully turn to? We’ve found out their 26 favorite fonts and break them down below. Read on to hear Debbie Millman, Mark Simonson, and other greats share their top picks for fonts.
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PayPal Sans: The New Exclusive Font For PayPal
In May 2014 PayPal’s product team got in touch with a very specific typeface brief detailing their functional and aesthetic requirements. They needed a sanserif typeface that was mobile-first, numeral-centric, and performed well across a range of screen resolutions. It had to be space-efficient, with special consideration for mobile devices in “portrait mode” without compromising legibility or readability. Structurally this meant letterforms with robust details, flat terminals and open counter-forms. Stylistically this meant a typeface aligned with humanist design principles. “Its spirit”, the brief said, “should be fluid, delightful, easy, calm and humanistic.”
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