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
Zaio: All Caps Rounded Font
Zaio is a free uppercase rounded font inspired by Ryoichi Tsunekawa’s Bebas Neue. It is great for headlines and logo design. Released for free by AlienValley. Download.
Material Kit – Bootstrap UI Kit for Google Material Design
Material Kit is a Free Bootstrap UI Kit with a fresh, new design inspired by Google’s material design. Download.
Flowchart: Mobile Wireframe kit for Sketch
Flowchart is a free kit for mobile wireframing that you can use to boost your productivity and save time. A Sketch freebie built and released by Dmitry Kurash. Download.
30 Extremely Elegant Serif Fonts
If you’re looking to establish a classic mood for a design, you may want to choose an elegant serif font. This article presents to you 30 of the best free serif fonts around. Download.
INSIGHT
UX for Beginners: Defining the Design Problem
You’ve heard it before: design is about solving problems. Whether it’s building a new playground or developing a mobile app for pet groomers, there are multiple ways to satisfy a project brief. However, in order to design a product that successfully delivers business value, it is critical to first clearly define the design problem.
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The Beginner’s Guide to UX Prototyping
Prototyping, as a concept, has been around since before the Internet. Typically, people developing a new physical product would first build the thing, and make sure that it worked as intended. The first version would be patented, perhaps, and shown to potential investors.
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Improve User Experience With Real-Time Features
Real-time technology delivers information to your users as it happens. But how does it help improve your product and align with your customers’ expectations?
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Infinite Scrolling: Is it Helping or Hurting Your Business?
When it comes to content marketing and web design, it’s increasingly important to be a thought leader in your field. Millennials are notorious for skimming web pages, making up their minds to stay or go in a matter of seconds.
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Why Your Gray Text Should Never Exceed 46% Brightness
The color gray comes in many different shades. You can find them on different elements across most sites. Dark gray is often used for headings and body text. Light gray is often used for metadata, labels, and descriptions. But the shade that’s abused the most is light gray.
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Everything You Need to Know About HD Design
If you haven’t already taken note, the web is going high def. From images to backgrounds to user interface elements, high definition is the new normal.
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INSPIRATION
Good Email Copy From Great Companies
Struggling to write the perfect email copy? Look no further than this awesome free tool that pulls in some of the best examples in the industry.
Check out Just Good Copy
Designing Beautiful Android Wear Watch Faces Just Got Much Easier
For the past two years, Ustwo—the London-based design company behind projects like the Escher-esque blockbuster iOS game Monument Valley to an app to save London from its parking nightmare—has been dabbling in Android Wear watch faces. Now, the company is releasing Face Maker, a platform that makes rolling your own custom Android Wear watch faces totally foolproof—even if you have abysmal design taste.
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The 8 Qualities of a Great Design Leader
We asked, “What do you believe are the essential qualities of a good design leader?” Don’t miss responses from Peter Merholz, Uday Gajendar, Libby Bawcombe, and Chris Thelwell.
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