Freebies July 2016

VSApp PSD Template Includes sections, hero styles and some section arrangement variations, along with a nice and clean 404 page. Free Apple TV Mockups A huge FREE pack of vector devices for Apple TV family is finally available for download! Logo Creation Kit Free logo creation kit containing 60 vector elements in PSD format. Using these elements, you can easily create hipster logos.

Highlights

Glue UI Kit Glue is a big mobile UI Kit, full of crazy-cool UI elements, organized into 100+ qualitative screens for Sketch and Photoshop. Item Reveal Animations with SVG An experiment where grid items get revealed and unrevealed with animated, morphing SVG paths using anime.js.

Resources

Add To Cart Interaction We’ve been experimenting with the idea of hiding the cart by default, and showing it when the user clicks the “add to cart” button.  Slidebars Slidebars is a jQuery framework for creating app-style off-canvas menus and sidebars.

cssnano cssnano compresses your CSS. And, it plugs into your existing setup. Vidage Your solution to full-screen background video and image combined. High Quality Metal Textures Metal textures should be a part of any designer’s toolbox.

Apple Sans Adjectives An interestingly looking font that you can download and use for free.  Anime Anime is a flexible yet lightweight JavaScript animation library. It works with CSS, Individual Transforms, SVG, DOM attributes and JS Objects. Datamaps Datamaps.co is a free and simple platform for creating visualizations with data maps.

Articles and inspiration

App Onboarding Best Practices You Should Follow What determines the future success of your app is how users can launch it, and you have to make their welcoming process as painless as possible.  Focus On Usability When Designing 404 Error Pages By putting some thought into your website’s 404 page design, it is possible to help visitors make use of it in order to find the content they were hoping to view.

Learning The Difference Between Type And Lettering Ever since the grunge era, the appearance of graffiti and the work David Carson during the ‘90s, typography has been gaining momentum. Typography for User Interfaces While the history of typography dates back about five thousand years, we’ve had graphical user interfaces for mere four decades.

Mobile Web Navigation Best Practices The biggest problem of handheld devices is their limited screen space, which often obstructs visibility while multi-tasking forcing users to surf with a single finger. Leveling up in CSS CSS seems easy at first. After all, it’s just styling, right? But, give it time. Soon, CSS will show you the true depths of its complexity.

Thoughts on the new official Apple app icon template Last week Apple released a series of new templates as starting points for preparing images for iOS. Great! We’ve been waiting for good, precise design tools from Apple for a long time. Unfortunately, these aren’t really that. 7 reasons why Infinite Scrolling is probably a bad idea On more than one occasion I have found myself trying to convince team-mates that Infinite Scrolling and its close relative Show More is more likely to degrade the experience than improve upon it.