More Freebies / June 2016

Aquino sans serif font Aquino is a fresh new, soft bold and free font ideal for logo design and big headlines.  Freebie VSApp PSD The full version, including some more sections, more hero styles. 40 Mini Icons 40 mini icons in AI, EPS, PNG, SVG in 16.x16 and 32x32 px.

Highlights

Mayolla Scene Generator Mayolla Scene Generator lets you create your own unique scene simply by dragging and dropping elements.  Choosing The Perfect Creative Agency Choosing the person/agency supposed to it is a challenging choice, and requires plenty of fruitful communication, understanding, and respect.

Resources

Creating a CSS Curtain Opening Effect The technique of curtains sliding open to reveal a treasure is a neat little tactic and one that we can use ourselves with a little bit of CSS.  A-Frame Use markup to create VR experiences that work across desktop, iOS, Android, and the Oculus Rift.

lightgallery A modern, electron and nodejs based image viewer for Mac, Windows and Linux. bideo.js Want to play a video in the background of a container or body itself ? This plugin will help you do exactly that. Instagram UI Kit An interesting freebie with 9 iOS screens that can be used in Sketch.

Flex Layout Attribute Layout helper based on CSS flexbox specification designed to serve you as quick flexbox shorthand. Starability.css Accessible rating with animations on top. Name is the combination of two words: star and accessibility. Placeholder.pics The lightest way to include placeholder pictures in your designs.

Articles and inspiration

Using Color Efficiently In Web Design Regardless of whether you prefer monochromatic or playful solutions, you have to know what you’re doing when given color to work with. Excellent Graphic Designer Website Designs One of the best ways to tell if an artist or graphic designer really has what it takes is to check out his or her own website.

A Simple Button Could Fix One Of Mobile's Most Annoying UX Flaws Button creates deep links between mobile apps so that tapping a button in one app performs that function in another. That awkward moment when Google fails its own website testing tool According to the tool, Google’s desktop speeds could be improved by optimizing images and prioritizing visible content. Ouch.

Design is about Emotion A nice video from Wonderland, a web and design studio that creates products that make people feel cool. Behind The Doodle Meet animator and doodler Olivia, to hear how she created the Lotte Reiniger doodle.

A Web Designer’s Guide to Pricing Strategies How you choose to price your design or development work can significantly impact the financial success of your business. Google is testing a new Material Design layout Material Design is supposed to be the visual template that unifies Google's products, but it's taken a while to reach every part of the tech company's kingdom.