UI kits are a fantastic starting point for many projects. You can quickly mockup a professional solution and then customize the files into a bespoke solution in no time at all. In this round-up, we’ve gathered together a collection of fresh user interface kits and Photoshop files; ideal for rapid development. These files will come in handy when you are hard at work and have little
Typefaces are the most elemental resource designers have in their toolbox. They’re a great way to add personality to designs, and really make your projects stand out. Unfortunately, building a large library of quality fonts is incredibly expensive. With professional grade fonts often retailing in excess of $200 each, a large selection to choose from is normally beyond the reach
For designers passionate about the latest developments across the full spectrum of visual design, there’s a brand new site that features some of the most exciting, innovative and inspiring design projects taking place today. Every day our sister-site, DesignFaves.com, trawls the web seeking out the projects with the most buzz surrounding them and delivers a compact,
Last time we covered our bicycle enthusiast’s page, we built an entire basic page in less than twenty minutes flat using the magic of Foundation. Today, we’re going to take that magic even further, and without touching a single line of jQuery or CSS, you’ll learn how to upgrade your site’s functionality with the following techniques: We’ll add custom
With yesterday’s announcement about the general availability of its Compute Engine, Google has rounded its service-rich computing Cloud Platform into a full-on competitor to the elite and powerful handful of existing providers. Behind every notable online service or app, from Netflix to Angry Birds to Snapchat, is that set of backend processes requiring gobs (mega-gobs,
Just a few short years ago the majority of web designers wouldn’t have been able to spell skeuomorphism, much less provide an accurate definition. Now, skeuomorphism is set up as the pantomime villain; the Wicked Witch of the East to flat design’s Dorothy. Flat design has come to define itself as ‘not skeuomorphic’, but this is misleading; skeuomorphism
Freebies are everywhere on the web these days, but it’s rare that you get something that is really high-quality for free. Once in a while we come across a freebie that makes all the searching worthwhile, and we’re really excited to have found this great new stock images site. Picjumbo is a fantastic service that offers stock photographs, absolutely free of charge, for
The art of creating a website these days is learning how to create an online experience. Many of these experiences are extensions of a brand or person and are relayed via different colors, fonts, etc. Thanks to awesome advancements in technologies, we can do a lot of stuff with our websites that we couldn’t do a few years ago. We are taking the experience from dry and drab to fun and
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Dec 3, 2013
With the release of iOS7, Apple made the most significant changes to their application design guidelines to date. iOS7’s design language emphasizes a light, almost minimalist aesthetic approach to interface controls, including all the iconography used to label actions and views within an app. While this change certainly modernized and simplified Apple’s operating system,
Web sites are built to perform a function, and communicate to their users. But beyond this, web sites can also be engaging, exciting, even fun to use. Adding visual interest to a site helps sustain our engagement with it, whether that is by typography, graphics or photography. But I believe there is also the potential for elements of interaction to provide visual stimulation and
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Dec 2, 2013
Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the best tweets that we sent out this past week. Note that this is only a very small selection of the links
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD. The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers. These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile cartoonists in the world today. So for a few moments, take a
Google really knows how to dive into a pool and make a splash, don't they?