iDevie Weekly News (week 49)

This is our popular weekly design news post where we share our favorite design related articles, resources and freebies from the past week. New Resources & Tools Andy.scss, an open-source collection of useful SASS mixins. Sticky-Kit, a jQuery plugin for making smart sticky elements. Furtive CSS, a lightweight, mobile-first, CSS micro-framework. Magic Mockups, a web-based… Continue reading iDevie Weekly News (week 49)

15 Tools That Will Change How Your Web Design/Development Team Collaborates

If you’re in charge of a small creative agency, don’t make the mistake of thinking that there is no need for careful project management. You wouldn’t believe how many collaboration and market advantages arise if you just pay a little attention to the details of your teamwork routine. Don’t think for a second that you… Continue reading 15 Tools That Will Change How Your Web Design/Development Team Collaborates

The Best 20 Tools for Web Development

Over the past few years the web development community has steadily increased its numbers. Due to the creativity and resourcefulness websites have become increasingly interactive and diverse. It’s complicated enough with all the different devices that now have access to the Internet to make a website that will look good and function properly across platforms.… Continue reading The Best 20 Tools for Web Development

20 Free Web & Mobile PSD UI Kits 2014

User Interface is th most important part of any design as it is responsible for making the first impression of any software. Here the amazing UI kits enter the picture and make the lives of all the designers much easier. There are infinite numbers of PSD UI kits available for mobile softwares and website designs.… Continue reading 20 Free Web & Mobile PSD UI Kits 2014

4 Free Seamless Knitted Christmas Jumper Patterns

I’ve been busy with my virtual knitting needles and crafted 4 free Christmas jumper patterns for your designs to wear this season. Each design is based on the popular ‘Fair Isle’ knitting style with lots of tiny red and white stitch-like graphics making up intricate festive patterns. The download contains patterns for both Illustrator &… Continue reading 4 Free Seamless Knitted Christmas Jumper Patterns

15 Fresh Free Fonts for Designers

GDJ always keep our readers up-to-date with fresh graphic design resources, especially about the fonts. In this post, I’ll be featuring collection of free fonts for designers. So what are your waiting, go and check out all of them and download the ones you like most. Norse Free Font Font Download Linotte Free Font Font Download… Continue reading 15 Fresh Free Fonts for Designers

25 Free Gesture Icons Packs for Your Mobile App

Finally, you are ready to put a new mobile app on the market. Surely you expect it to take the audience by storm. As we all know, people buy not only the product but also its packaging. So without a well-thought-out presentation, chances are, it simply won’t do. Presentations of old won’t do either, neither… Continue reading 25 Free Gesture Icons Packs for Your Mobile App

30 Beautiful Blue Websites for Design Inspiration

This week I thought it would be interesting to check out a showcase of blue websites. The clean and fresh characteristics of this colour make it a popular choice with web designers, with light cyans being particularly trendy in the modern web design scene. Evolve Wealth Sparkbox Squares Conference Underbelly Creative Co. Bay Street Biergarten… Continue reading 30 Beautiful Blue Websites for Design Inspiration

Schema – A Modular, Responsive Frontend Framework

Schema is a modular, responsive, front end framework to easily and quickly help you jumpstart your process in building complex interfaces for the web right out the box. Schema comes fully equipped with the capabilities of creating familiar experiences across multiple viewports. From a desktop monitor down to a mobile device, Schema’s 12-column grid provides… Continue reading Schema – A Modular, Responsive Frontend Framework

20 Best Free Bootstrap WordPress Themes

Bootstrap is a great framework with very powerful features, ideal for letting web developers create high quality responsive, Bootstrap templates. Bootstrap websites have flexibl layouts and look great on all mobile devices. Bootstrap templates work on popular publishing platforms like WordPress and Joomla too. We selected today 20 best free Bootstrap WordPress themes for you to choose from.… Continue reading 20 Best Free Bootstrap WordPress Themes

23 New Tutorials to Learn Essential of Illustration

In illustrator tutorials you’ll learn how to create vector graphic design resources and illustration basics, new features, tips and techniques. In this collection we’re gathered latest Illustrator CS6 and Illustrator CC tutorials which can help to create Vector Graphics in Adobe Illustrator. I hope! these illustrator tutorials can enhance you’r illustration skills and improve the quality of your works.… Continue reading 23 New Tutorials to Learn Essential of Illustration

25 Free Hero Images and Mock-ups: The First Impression Counts

The use of giant, so-called Hero images is a trend of the younger years. Some say it was Apple who brought it forth, some say gigantic images have been there forever, but couldn’t be used due to poor bandwidths. The latter is becoming less and less of a problem, so why not start using hero… Continue reading 25 Free Hero Images and Mock-ups: The First Impression Counts

Optimize Your Team Collaboration with These Top-Notch Tools for Creatives

The best part about being a web designer or a web developer is that you make it your job to create something from scratch – which is more than most people can say. We relish in our creative freedom, that’s why at first we get the feeling that administrative tasks are toilsome and more than… Continue reading Optimize Your Team Collaboration with These Top-Notch Tools for Creatives

20 Hi-Tech WordPress Themes for Software Presentation

If you have a great idea for a new app or software, then the presentation website for your startup should pe perfectly coded! To make things easier for you, we searched the web for the best 20 hi-tech WordPress themes for software and app presentation websites. These hi-tech WordPress themes have sleek and clean designs,… Continue reading 20 Hi-Tech WordPress Themes for Software Presentation

Storefront – A Brand New FREE WordPress Theme

Storefront is an intuitive & flexible, free theme offering deep integration with WooCommerce.It’s the perfect platform for your next WooCommerce project. Bulletproof WooCommerce integration Storefront is built and maintained by WooCommerce core developers so you can rest assured the integration between WooCommerce, WooCommerce extensions and Storefront is water-tight. The Storefront platform is built on solid… Continue reading Storefront – A Brand New FREE WordPress Theme

Free Download : Flat Hero Header Kit – (illustrated vector tools and desk items)

Today’s free design resource Flat Hero Header Kit comes from Medialoot.a collection of illustrated vector tools and desk items, perfect for creating unique hero headers. The kind of objects included are often seen on the desks of designers. The illustration is fully layered and vector in Photoshop and includes the following objects: iMac,MacBook Pro,iPad Air,iPad… Continue reading Free Download : Flat Hero Header Kit – (illustrated vector tools and desk items)

Interact.js – JavaScript plugin for drag and drop, resizing and multi-touch gestures

JavaScript drag and drop, resizing and multi-touch gestures with inertia and snapping for modern browsers (and also IE8+) Including: – Inertia – Snapping to a grid, custom anchors or paths. – Cross browser and device, supporting the desktop and mobile versions of Chrome, Firefox and Opera as well as Internet Explorer 8+ – Interaction with… Continue reading Interact.js – JavaScript plugin for drag and drop, resizing and multi-touch gestures

8 Best Approaches to Design a Website (That Can Also Impact Your Conversions)

A website’s design is not dependent on its visual flare of the amount of things you’ve managed to fit on one page, it’s about usability and utility. These two elements are what define a successful website, not the amount of visual flare. Just like people, the beauty of a website needs to come from within.… Continue reading 8 Best Approaches to Design a Website (That Can Also Impact Your Conversions)

20 Online CSS3 Menu, Layout & Code Generators

Though CSS3 generators or tools are not necessary but can provide a strong start for your menu or layout designs. These tools can speed up the design workflow. You can change the code later according to your needs. In this article we featured 20 CSS3 menu, layout & code generators you can find online. These… Continue reading 20 Online CSS3 Menu, Layout & Code Generators

Free Material Design GUI Templates & Icon Sets

Material Design is an innovative visual language that has been designed to unify the user experience of all of their products across all devices, and has been built on the principles of successful design combined with technology. So far you may have experienced the beautifully simple aesthetics of Material Design via Google’s Gmail, Inbox and… Continue reading Free Material Design GUI Templates & Icon Sets

25 Beautiful and Minimalist Websites

Minimalism is one of our favorite styles of web design. A well-designed website with a minimalist style may look simple, but they’re not always easy to design. This collection shows 25 excellent examples of well crafted minimalist websites from around the web. If you have others to share, feel free to let me know in the comments below.… Continue reading 25 Beautiful and Minimalist Websites

Communicating a Message Through Visual Hierarchy

The goal of every design is to successfully communicate a message. Visual hierarchy enables you to organize information and elements so that the message can be communicated easily. Hierarchies also enable the design to tell a story to communicate the message. What is Visual Hierarchy? When you organize information based on importance, that’s hierarchy. Visual… Continue reading Communicating a Message Through Visual Hierarchy

Use Ptengine Heatmap to Make Your Website Perfect

If content is king, then design is the castle. Good web design for businesses not only has the content to peak audience interest for whatever product or service you’re sell-ing, but also has an intuitive UI to encourage sales. Lots of designers think they have brilliant ideas for designing UI, but without real world user… Continue reading Use Ptengine Heatmap to Make Your Website Perfect