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
Font : Cheque
Cheque is a free display font designed by Mirela Belova, a young graphic designer from Bulgaria. The font is based on geometric shapes and has a very classy vintage look. Cheque looks best when used for headlines or compositions.
Font : Agent
Agent is minimal stencil display typeface inspired by clear simplistic geometric forms. This font is free for personal use.
Link: Agent Font
Font : Womby
Womby is a free uppercase-only font with a modern cut ideal for graphic and poster design, though it works great on web as well. Many thanks to Cagri Kara for realising Womby for both free personal and commercial use.
Link: Wombly Font
20 Free Beautiful Shopping Bag Mockups to Download
Here is a collection of free shopping bag mockups which can be easily downloaded and edited as you like. You’ll see paper bag mockups on a nice background as well as shopping bags in a person’s hand.
Link: 20 Free Beautiful Shopping Bag Mockups
Surfers Co. – A Bootstrap-ready PSD template
Surfers Co. is a modern one page template designed and released by Luis Costa, UI designer from Brasil. The package includes a layered PSD file based on 1170px Bootstrap grid system.
Link: Surfers Co. – A Bootstrap-ready PSD template
20 Free Silhouettes Vector Packs
Why should you use silhouettes in your designs? Well, why not?! You can use them temporarily, in the pre-design stage, just to have an idea of the whole picture, or you can use them in your projects when you don’t need a detailed image, and a simple silhouette is representative enough.
Link: 20 Free Silhouettes Vector Packs
INSIGHT
How a 100-Year-Old Dutch Movement Can Improve Your Site Design
If you’re not a 20th-century Dutch art enthusiast, you might not be familiar with the concept of De Stijl. You’ve probably been exposed to many of its principles without realizing it.
Keep reading: How a 100-Year-Old Dutch Movement Can Improve Your Site Design
8 Names Every Graphic Designer Should Know
Whether you are an experienced web designer or just a beginner, I am sure you already have your own list of favourite contemporary graphic designers. And if you have decided to pursue a career in web design, here are a few names you just have to know about.
Keep reading: 8 Names Every Graphic Designer Should Know
7 Ways to Tell a Great Story with Design
A website is more than just a place to hold information about your app, portfolio or products. It should tell a story to engage and delight users. (That’s one of the key elements that will help them stick around.) While a good story might start with an idea on pen and paper, it comes to life thanks to the design.
Keep reading: 7 Ways to Tell a Great Story with Design
Why a Positive User Experience is Critical for Websites and Blogs
Google is by far the biggest search engine on the planet, and although upstarts like DuckDuckGo are snapping at its heels, the mighty Google still dominates. For this reason, it is important to place Google front and center when devising strategies to build an online audience.
Keep reading: Why a Positive User Experience is Critical for Websites and Blogs
INSPIRATION
The Use of Shapes in Web Design with 30 Examples
Have you noticed that most websites are, more or less, made up of rectangular boxes? From the rectangular shape of a browser window to the rectangular shape of buttons, websites are mostly rectangular. This is not only practical, it just makes sense.
Link: The Use of Shapes in Web Design with 30 Examples
Finance App
Home Budget Feed
eBay Redesigns Its Homepage (Again)
They say that three time’s the charm. Maybe for eBay, two is all that it will take when it comes to its homepage design. In late 2013, the auction site last attempted a homepage redesign that wasn’t all that user-friendly.
Link: eBay Redesigns Its Homepage (Again)
Trends of Web Design in 2017 [Infographic]
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