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
Wayward Sans: A Handmade Font
Wayward Sans is a free handmade font with a country feel, ideal for logo design. Designed and released by Colin Whitlock. Download.
20 Fonts Ideal for Big and Powerful Headings
Headings play a major role in the way users digest content. Through size and style, they help establish a hierarchy & make text easy to scan. Download.
Responsive Office Icons
This is a set of 150 office icons optimized for four sizes with different levels of detail (600 icons in total). This lovely responsive icon set was created by Icons8. Download.
200 Miscellaneous Icons
Icons are vector based and come in both Sketch and Illustrator formats, so you can easily edit and customise them. Download.
Tanner Collections: Ecommerce PSD Template
Tanner Collections is a stylish and bold website template for ecommerce built with Photoshop by Alex Nikandrov, a talented UI designer based in Ukraine. The template comes with a minimal colour palette and integrates Montserrat Bold font. Download.
Bromo: Social Mobile App Template
Bromo is a free social mobile app template made of 5 screens: Splash Screen, Login, Newsfeed, Friends and Chat. Free PSD designed and released by Faiz Al-Qurni. Download.
Monet: PSD Mobile UI kit
Monet is a free mobile UI kit designed in Adobe Photoshop by Konul Bayramova. The kit includes 16 high-quality iOS screens in PSD format that you can use for inspiration for your app design. Download.
Clemo: PSD Template
Clemo is a free website template for companies and agencies featured by a unique and modern style. The package includes 10 hi-res pages based on 1170px Bootstrap grids. Free PSD designed and released by Illia Nesterov. Download.
INSIGHT
Animated Microinteractions in Mobile Apps
Dariel Fitzkee, the famous magician, once said, “Magic is both in the details and in the performance.” Interaction design is just like that.
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How To Be More Organized While Designing UI
After working 4 years in the field of digital design I got obsessed with tidying up and sorting information. This lead to the creation of a systematic approach for designing user interfaces. It is an object-oriented, programming-inspired approach, a collection of various ideas that are universal.
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A Stronger Visual Cue for Text Fields
All clickable user interface elements need visual cues that signify clickability. Without cues, users won’t know to interact with them. Most buttons and links use color, location, and shape for a strong visual cue. But the only visual cue most text fields have is a 1-pixel border.
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Design by Algorithm: does MarkMaker’s logo generator render designers obsolete?
MarkMaker is an online logo generator that learns what you like and automatically refines a design based on your feedback. Enter your company name, click generate, and browse through countless logo designs instantly.
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6 Persuasive UI Design Patterns to Hook Users
See examples of UI patterns that persuade users to keep using your product.
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INSPIRATION
Pinterest Redesigns its Mobile App with a Focus on Speed
“We’re lucky enough to have over 100 million Pinners around the world coming to Pinterest to find ideas to try. With so many people using our app, it’s more important than ever to make sure it works great for everyone—no matter where you live, what language you speak or how old your phone is.”
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5 UX plays to start your design on good tracks
As I grow as a designer, I am learning new plays that I add to my process. The following are my favourite.
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How to Create an Amazing Mobile Design – Infographic
The folks at Y Media Labs have sorted through the noise and compiled a list of the 46 best mobile design blogs to follow and get inspired – click the infographic to see them all.
