Okay, I’m going to start this off with one statement; Material Design is great. It has helped unify user interfaces across platforms, and it provides designers with awesome resources (the icons especially ????????). And while some of you may use aterial Design as your UI-North-Star (why are you doing that to yourself), I am not… Continue reading Overcoming Material Design.
Month: February 2017
Peenu: A free hand knitted typeface
Peenu is a free – uppercase-only – typeface designed and released by Nitish Kumar, a young UI and graphic designer based in India. Peenu inspired by Sharp Paper Cuts, that makes it ideal for headlines and graphic design (i.e. posters, flyers, movie titles, etc.). Download font
4 Ways Designers Can Use Asana to Organize Their Work
Collaboration, organization, and communication are important to making a design process flow smoothly–especially when you’re dealing with multiple stakeholders or cross-functional teams. After all, nothing is worse than having to waste time digging around Google Docs for a product roadmap from last month or not getting enough context for a mockup you’re about to work… Continue reading 4 Ways Designers Can Use Asana to Organize Their Work
9 Best WordPress Plugins for Use in 2017
Posted · Category: Best Collections WordPress has many pluses, but it’s not necessarily the most glamorous platform to work with. Still customize it with themes and plugins to fit a designer’s needs has made it the most popular CMS. Plugins are great to have access to when you need to embed certain functions into your… Continue reading 9 Best WordPress Plugins for Use in 2017
31 New Useful Free Photoshop PSD Files for UI Designers
New highly useful Photoshop and Illustrated free PSD files for web and graphic UI designers. These PSD graphics are very easy to use with the Smart Object and available in fully editable layered files. Free PSD graphics included PSD logos, App UI, Flyers, Business Card Templates, Vector Icons, Web Templates, Mock-ups and more useful free psd files for… Continue reading 31 New Useful Free Photoshop PSD Files for UI Designers
Popular design news of the week: February 20, 2017 – February 26, 2017
Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however,… Continue reading Popular design news of the week: February 20, 2017 – February 26, 2017
Propeller: CSS framework based on Google Material and Bootstrap
Propeller is a responsive CSS framework that combines Google Material Design and Bootstrap components into a new library. It may be useful to drastically reduce the amount of decisions to make when writing code, and focus on logic rather than on semantics and formatting. Super useful to create quick prototypes and Minimum Viable Products! View project page
21 Fresh Free Resume Templates with Cover Letter
in Freebies 0 comments Advertisements New free resume templates, professionally designed with clean, minimal and creative style. This is a collection of fresh single page or multiple pages resume templates, portfolio page with cover letters. Resume templates are easy to use and customize, so you can quickly tailor-make your resume for any opportunity and help you to get your… Continue reading 21 Fresh Free Resume Templates with Cover Letter
6 SEO Must-Haves for Web Designers & Developers
February 24, 2017 by Veronika The design and development work on a website doesn’t end with setting it live. Having a clean, W3C-validated code and an eye-catching design will surely help you get on the railroad to success. Yet, if you’re looking into building a website that truly stands out from the rest and provides… Continue reading 6 SEO Must-Haves for Web Designers & Developers
Form is Functional: Why Design is More Than Gold Plating
When budgets are tight in the software world and companies want to save money, form is usually the first to go. In these situations, the design tends to be considered ‘gold plating’ and not a necessity. It’s thought to only make the product ‘look nice’. This assumption couldn’t be further from the truth. Form has… Continue reading Form is Functional: Why Design is More Than Gold Plating
25 Fresh Free Fonts For Graphic Designers
Fresh free fonts, script fonts, handwritten fonts and typefaces for graphic designers. These fonts are available for personal and commercial use. You can use these fonts as a logo, badge, insignia, packaging, headline, poster, t-shirt/apparel, greeting card, and wedding invitation. The following typefaces and fonts are ideal to make an attractive design and fit for any web or graphic project. Take a… Continue reading 25 Fresh Free Fonts For Graphic Designers
Best Places to Find Transparent PNG Images
February 23, 2017 by Veronika As browser-based graphic design tools gain popularity among amateurs and professional designers there is an increased demand for ready-to-use transparent PNG images. Sure, raster design software, like Photoshop and its free alternatives (GIMP and Pixlr) can help you easily trace and cut out the unnecessary segments of a photo and… Continue reading Best Places to Find Transparent PNG Images
Elements: Dashboard UI kit for Photoshop and Sketch
Elements is a free UI kit including a lot of useful components (inputs, buttons, selects, dropdowns, notifications, tables, etc.) to get started with dashboards / admin pages design. The freebie comes in both PSD and Sketch formats and it’s been designed and released by Jan Losert, experience designer at at Tapdaq. Download freebie
9 Beautiful Free WordPress Themes For 2017
Here, we have come again with yet another exciting and useful compilation of 9 WordPress themes that are all new and eye-catching. The list contains WordPress themes for real estate websites, portfolio websites, businesses, creative agencies and more. In addition to huge variety, all the themes are responsive design with clean, modern and minimal features.… Continue reading 9 Beautiful Free WordPress Themes For 2017
A letter from Sol LeWitt about creative block, read by Benedict Cumberbatch
In 1960, pioneering American artists Sol LeWitt and Eva Hesse met for the first time and instantly clicked, quickly forming a strong, deep bond that would last for ten years and result in countless inspirational discussions and rich exchanges of ideas. In the video below, Benedict Cumberbatch reads a letter sent from Sol to Eva… Continue reading A letter from Sol LeWitt about creative block, read by Benedict Cumberbatch
Edd: Landing page design for showcasing apps
Here’s Edd, a beautiful landing page designed in Sketch by Alan Podemski ideal for showcasing and launching apps or digital products. Clean but colourful and elegant at the same time, love that! Download freebie
How to Build an Effective e-Commerce Shopping Cart
February 20, 2017 by Spyre Studios The internet has given shopping a whole new meaning. No longer do you have to wait for someone to come into your store, or meet you in person. In fact, you can never see customers in person and still run a successful sales operation. But therein lies the danger… Continue reading How to Build an Effective e-Commerce Shopping Cart
Interaction Awards, Chatbot Interactions, Empathy as Faux Ethics, and more UX this week
What’s hot in UX this week: Notifications: an Interview with John Saito, from Dropbox → We dream of a future with connected and ubiquitous experiences, but we still feel overwhelmed with the notifications across all our devices. In this last piece of our series we interviewed John Saito, ‘designer of words’ at Dropbox, about how we… Continue reading Interaction Awards, Chatbot Interactions, Empathy as Faux Ethics, and more UX this week
25 New Professional Business Card Templates (Print Ready Design)
A beautiful multipurpose business cards PSD template ready to print designs are perfect for corporate brand identity or personal. Clean, modern and fully customizable business card templates, you can easily change the color of the element itself in just one click. All elements, including the logo, you can resize without losing quality. All design elements… Continue reading 25 New Professional Business Card Templates (Print Ready Design)
Snow: Free PSD + HTML portfolio template
Snow is a free website template designed and released by Svetlana S. that you can use for creating minimal and clean portfolios. It comes in both PSD and HTML and includes a front page, two portfolio pages and two blog pages. Additionally, a WordPress version is available for sale on ThemeForest. View demo Download template
40+ Extremely Creative Typography Designs
Heart-touching and extremely remarkable lettering, calligraphy, graffiti, typography designs created by some hard-working and dedicated graphic designers. This showcase only have hand-drawn quotes, handmade lettering, digital lettering and typography artwork with bristle effects and watercolor style typo all are great for inspiration. You may be interested in the following articles as well. Please join us & follow on Facebook, Twitter and Google+ for updates. Subscribe… Continue reading 40+ Extremely Creative Typography Designs
Why human-centered design is an expectation.
Human-Centered Design, in short, is the practice of a management and problem solving process that places people (your customer) at the center of every decision. It requires curiosity and contextual observation, empathy, ideation, iteration, and implementation. “Human-centered” is the core of user, customer, and service experience design (UX, CX, SX). Almost every company has a… Continue reading Why human-centered design is an expectation.
10 Resource Sites For Free Website Background Images
February 16, 2017 by Veronika Building an entire website on your own requires special attention to details and a good eye for design. We’ve covered plenty of topics on website design, including essential features, user experience, and search engine optimization. We’ve listed plenty of free design resources but when it comes to something as simple as… Continue reading 10 Resource Sites For Free Website Background Images
27 Web and Interactive Websites for Inspiration
Beautiful and creative web-interactive websites roundup for inspiration. In this website showcase we are gathered Business & Corporate, Promotional, Web & Interactive websites, created with modern technologies HTML5 and CSS3, jQuery and fully Responsive Design websites. Web/Interactive web design engage students and professionals by providing information and resources along with practice, simulations, and other learning activities. We saw some… Continue reading 27 Web and Interactive Websites for Inspiration