Freebies August 2016

Trio - Unity Free PSD Personal portoflio PSD Theme from Unity pack. Moob shopping app Cool sketch app screens that you can download and use.  Paul Grotesk (Free Font) A modern, clean, minimalist grotesque typeface with delicious detail.

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The Colorful Mobile and Web UI Kits Bundle Do you want your clients to receive a colorful and trendy user interface from you? It is difficult sometimes, we know. That's why we're offering you a bundle of colorful UI kits. The best part? You're getting a $180 discount for a bundle of 5 amazing UI kits. Above & Beneath: Featured Content Layout Effect  The idea is to show a big headline in the initial view and when a grid/menu icon is clicked, the view slides down (below the water) and some featured content or menu items get shown.

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Recommended Premium Fonts That You Can Buy Online Good and free fonts are ideal if you find them but very few of the ones you find can reach up to your expectations if you have a big and really serious design project. Clipped SVG Slider What’s really powerful with SVG is the possibility to combine path animations with the clipPath element. Add a touch of CSS transformations and you got a spicy recipe!

Draft U.S. Web Design Standards Open-source UI components and visual styles to create beautiful, consistent experiences across federal government websites. Learn TypeScript in 30 Minutes We’re going to take a look at TypeScript, a compile-to-JavaScript language designed for developers who build large and complex apps.

hack.css Dead simple CSS framework that you can use for your projects.  Gatsby Transform plain text into dynamic blogs and websites using React.js iziModal Elegant, responsive, flexible and lightweight modal plugin with jQuery.

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Creating A Separate Mobile Site Vs A Responsive One Let’s check some of the most important reasons why you have to use mobile responsive sites instead of separate ones. Web Designers Should Focus More On Typography Initial impressions are the ones that last the most. You might not be aware of it, but typography is the essential tool that introduces a perfected experience, even before users click a single button.

How To Convince Your Clients To Redesign Their Website Before you even mention redesign to your clients, explore the websites of their most agile competitors. What is it that you can find on your websites that your design doesn’t have?  How To Design A Great Portfolio Website Designing a great portfolio, whether it is a web design portfolio or a graphic design portfolio, is a challenging task for every designer.

Centered Logos Hurt Website Navigation Getting back to the homepage is about 6 times harder when the logo is placed in the center of a page compared to when it’s in the top left corner. Buttons shouldn’t have a hand cursor There is this belief that the hand cursor means “clickable”, but this is incorrect and potentially problematic. My hope is that by the end of the article, you’ll never want to use the hand cursor for buttons ever again.

Font Classification: Learn The Basics It is not exactly easy to learn typography, but what you can do at least is to familiarize with the history and types of typography styles. The Future of Design (and how to prepare for it) A handy guide to navigating what's coming up next in the design world. In trying to figure out what the future of design will look like, we’re at a bit of a loss.