Freebies / Aug 2016

Affogato free font Affogato is an expressive typeface with an especially high x-height and long descender.  Guacamole UI Kit Need help with pixels and vector shapes in Photoshop, Adobe Xd or Sketch? Fredoka free font Fredoka - Free Rounded and Bold Font. Free for personal and commercial use.

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Thin Line Icons Bundle (95% Off) This thin line icons bundle offers you a great amount of icons at an insanely low price for a limited time. You will be getting 1525 icons for just $25 (Reg. $500). Multi-Layout Slideshow The idea behind this slideshow is to have an individual layout for each slide, accompanied by a distinct effect. The images of each slide is meant to have a decorative purpose which could be suitable for an article header.

Resources

43 free social media icons sets Social media icon sets drive traffic to your website more than any other tool you’ve considered for the purpose, which is exactly why designers never fail to incorporate them in their designs.  CSS Demos, Experiments And Useful Snippets Enjoy these beautiful and intriguing demos and experiments. Take a look at them and remember the techniques used cause there won’t be much longer until the other browsers accept the technologies behind these code effects.

Avana Bootstrap template Avana is a modern portfolio style template with beautiful typography and attention to detail. Fake it 'til you Make it CSS There are various ways we can give the impression that content is loading, and I will go through a few of them in this post. Start-up Landing Page Free startup PSD landing page created by Ali Sayed and released to be downloaded and used for free.

Responsive Page with Flexbox HTML template that can be used as is or as a starting point for your start-up’s website. Shop Isle WP Theme ShopIsle is the perfect free theme designed for your WooCommerce shop based on Bootstrap. Stella Blog UI Kit Stella UI kit is a greatly polished and made precisely for blogs. It's pixel perfect 80px grid makes it look organized and clean.

Sharingbuttons.io Super fast and easy Social Media Sharing Buttons. No JavaScript. No tracking. superembed.js Fluid width for YouTube, Vimeo, Vine, VideoPress, DailyMotion, and more embedded videos. Considerations for Styling a Modal A small box that pops up to tell you something important. How hard can it be?

Articles and inspiration

How to design a website with great typography Website typography is the ultimate question of every designer, and an ultimate struggle too. Once they find this answer they indentify it with the highest moment in their careers, and believe there is no higher deign boundary they can’t cross. Eye Candy User Interface Design Inspiration With UI design inspiration you will be encouraged to approach the design for your app from different angles so you can create the best UI for your app.

How To Handle A Client With A Small Design Budget Ever had to deal with clients wanting a site similar to a brand’s website? We bet you had! And that’s when the ultimate struggle of working for a client with a small design budget begins. Stop designing interfaces, Start designing experiences We managed to make our designers save 50% time on building interfaces, we’re trying to reduce the number of platforms they’re designing for, but we still want to save a lot more than that.

Creative illustration styles in web design Creative illustration styles are more present in web design than ever before. Should it surprise us? No. Illustrations are one of the oldest and best known artistic design elements that have helped us recognize brands ever since we can remember. Websites With Creative Background Gradients In this article you will see a showcase of websites who use gradients in their website design, mostly in their background. Some of these sites use CSS3 gradients while other simply apply them to an image.

Is this my interface or yours? As you tap around from app to app, you’ll see that there’s no standard way to refer to the things that belong to you within an interface. Some say it’s my stuff. Some say it’s your stuff. How To Make Your Not-So-Great Visual Design Better There’s a bridge from a student’s perspective to a professional’s perspective. For most, it’s guaranteed to be a blend of fear and excitement and curiosity, peppered with a lot of questions.