Tag: symbols

What’s New for Designers, September 2019

While there aren’t as many new tools out there to play with right now, the ones available are a lot of fun. From tools to help speed up workflows and manage productivity, to creative gamification and funky typefaces, these new tools for designers will make you want to stick to your desk. Here’s what new… Continue reading What’s New for Designers, September 2019

What’s New for Designers, July 2019

It’s hard to stay focused this time of year. With vacations coming up (or having recently passed) it’s easy to get distracted from work-related tasks. For that reason, this month’s roundup is full of design tools plus a few design diversions that you can have fun with. 404 Illustrations Have you ever wanted to create… Continue reading What’s New for Designers, July 2019

50 Awesome Icon Tutorials

Icons are fantastic additions to websites, mobile apps, and so much more! So if you’ve ever wondered how to make icons, now you can explore dozens of amazing tutorials from this list. Check out this huge selection of 50 icon tutorials from us and around the web. Icon Tutorials From Envato Tuts+ Ready to kick-start… Continue reading 50 Awesome Icon Tutorials

7 Common UX Designing Mistakes Found in the Mobile App Realm

Mobile app market seems to be mushrooming like never before. Developers are making the most of on-boarding tactics, inline hinting or tutorials to attract users’ attention for long. Do you which is the best mobile app design found across the globe? It is the one that goes unnoticed. It is rightly said that we humans… Continue reading 7 Common UX Designing Mistakes Found in the Mobile App Realm

How to Make Modern Websites With Clean WordPress Themes

Creating a website has never been easier thanks to platforms like WordPress. Not only is WordPress very easy to learn, it’s the perfect platform to create any type of website.  Thanks to the huge number of themes, you can get your site up and running in a matter of hours, whether you want to launch… Continue reading How to Make Modern Websites With Clean WordPress Themes

4 Web Design Tips that your Web Designer Won’t Know About

We live in an era where much of the communication and business has moved to the internet, and having a good website has never been as important as it is today. Design of your website is as important as the content on the website. No matter how good the content on a website is, if… Continue reading 4 Web Design Tips that your Web Designer Won’t Know About

Introduction to Studio, the Screen Design Tool From InVision

Today I’m going to give you a quick introduction to Studio, a brand new screen design tool from InVision. With it, you can design your UI projects, but also build prototypes and collaborate with others to keep everything in sync. If you’re looking for an alternative to Adobe XD, or Sketch, or Figma, read on! Studio… Continue reading Introduction to Studio, the Screen Design Tool From InVision

How Technology Has Impacted the Four Orders of Design

Unless you are a professional designer who has remained current in your respective field, you may not be familiar with what many of today’s designers know as the “Four Orders of Design”, as developed by Professor Richard Buchanan and extensively written about in his book of the same name released in 1999. However, if you… Continue reading How Technology Has Impacted the Four Orders of Design

Best Selling UX and UI Kits For Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, XD, and Figma

UX and UI Kits help designers in all kinds of ways, and at different stages in the design process. In this roundup I’ll show you some of the best-selling UX and UI kits available from Envato, to get you started wireframing, prototyping, and designing your next website or app. What Are UX and UI Kits?… Continue reading Best Selling UX and UI Kits For Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, XD, and Figma

How to Create a Logo Design with Designhill?

Today, logo makers such as Designhill have made designing and selecting logos easier and affordable. Anyone can design a professional looking logo within minutes with the user-friendly interface and step by step guide by this logo maker. As Designhill leverages artificial intelligence, the result is a huge collection of logo designs based on your choices… Continue reading How to Create a Logo Design with Designhill?

Flowchart kit 2.0 for Sketch

Flowchart kit 2.0 is a free Sketch file released by Greg Dlubacz including hundred of cards, arrows and many other shapes provided as symbols for creating sitemaps/flow charts quickly and easily. Simply drag & drop cards, elements, shapes, add arrows, scale their width and height, rotate them to get professional and beautiful sitemaps, wireframes or… Continue reading Flowchart kit 2.0 for Sketch

Mandorlato: A free font inspired by almond shape

Mandorlato is a free font family fruit of an exploration of the timeless almond shape designed by Stefano Giliberti. It comes with 505 glyphs and 5 weights: Extra Light, Light, Regular, Bold, Extra Bold, contains uppercase and lowercase letters, numerals and symbols, supports 91 languages. This creative font will perfectly suites for logos, branding, prints and and… Continue reading Mandorlato: A free font inspired by almond shape

Altero: A font for larger-than-life words

Altero is a free font with a bold look designed and released by Stefano Giliberti. It comes in two styles (Regular and Outlined), contains 505 glyphs, including app caps letter, numerals and symbols and supports 91 languages. Altero is a great choice for designing typefaces, headlines, banners, ads, posters and more. You can download the… Continue reading Altero: A font for larger-than-life words

Elements: A free iOS UI kit by Sketch

The designer team at Sketch has recently released a totally free UI kit for their popular app. It is called Elements and it is pretty massive since it includes 35 screens, 45 icons and 175 symbols. Elements is probably the best choice to get started on your next app design for iOS: you just need… Continue reading Elements: A free iOS UI kit by Sketch

Creating a first Product Design System in Sketch

The first days I remember the first day I joined Agorize, I asked the PM if there is a styleguide I can use in Sketch. He told me we didn’t have any styleguide and only had some screens designed in Photoshop. The problem is that we have a product with a consumer-facing side and a client-facing… Continue reading Creating a first Product Design System in Sketch

Sketch Gists — Useful snippets for plugin development

Last week I was developing an internal tool to create a design workflow for my workplace. The process involved creating a style guide for a new project by setting up the branding colours, typefaces, shadows and scrim. All went well until it was required to convert the text layers into symbols so as to generalise… Continue reading Sketch Gists — Useful snippets for plugin development

Uppercase vs. Lowercase: How to Send the Right Message Across When Choosing a Logo Font

When it comes to designing a logo for your brand, the usual tips are hard to miss: keep it simple, keep it clean, and make it memorable. Many hugely successful logos rely on symbols and images and can send their message across without featuring any text at all, but usually logos showcase the company behind… Continue reading Uppercase vs. Lowercase: How to Send the Right Message Across When Choosing a Logo Font

Wavehaus Sans: A free typeface in 6 weights

Wavehaus Sans is a free geometric font family designed by Graham Paterson, Senior Designer based in Cape Town. The typeface comes in 6 weights (Thin, Light, Book, Semibold, Bold and Extra Bold) and includes uppercase and lowercase characters, numbers and the most common symbols. * Fonts come in OTF file format. Download font

Monly: A free playful font in 4 styles

Monly is a new free handwritten typeface designed by Gatis Vilaks featuring a playful feel. The font family comes in 2 different versions (Serif and Sans Serif) and 2 weights (Light and Bold), supports numbers, symbols and Cyrillic characters. The whole font family comes in OTF and WOFF file formats and is free for personal and commercial use.… Continue reading Monly: A free playful font in 4 styles

SUNN: A free set of 3 hand-drawn fonts

Today we want to share with you an awesome set of 3 hand-drawn fonts called SUNN and designed by Gatis Vilaks, designer from Latvia. It is basically a font family that comes in 3 different styles: SUNN Line, SUNN Serif and SUNN Line Serif. They look similar but have different characteristics and styles. Each font style comes in two weights – Bold and… Continue reading SUNN: A free set of 3 hand-drawn fonts

3 Months with Figma: Why it Changes Design Forever

Like most designers, I started with Photoshop, using it for over half a decade. From there, Sketch burst onto the scene and did not take long to announce itself as the go-to tool for designers. For the last three months, I have been using Figma each and every day, integrating it into my workflow and… Continue reading 3 Months with Figma: Why it Changes Design Forever

Style Guides in Sketch

Product design is a team sport. The best teams tend to have lots of moving parts: designers and developers and managers and researchers all working in concert on a single, refined vision. All those moving pieces come with a cost, though, in the form of meetings, emails, and file versioning—all things we do in order… Continue reading Style Guides in Sketch