Workmanship Manual
The Workmanship Manual gives guidelines for writing front-end code that’s reliable and easy to maintain. It includes guidelines for HTML, CSS, and more.Fluid for Sketch
Fluid for Sketch is a plugin that lets you create more constraint-based, responsive designs.Refold
Refold is a standing desk made from cardboard. It disassembles and folds into an easy-to-carry and easy-to-store package, and can be set up in just minutes.ProtoSketch
ProtoSketch is a design app for your iPad. Use it for product design, UX design, mobile design, and more.DSCO
DSCO is a GIF-making app created with VSCO, with their superior imaging technology built-in.Swiss Style Color Picker
This Swiss Style Color Picker is beautifully minimalist and simple to use. Just click on a color among the 3D cube illustrations and automatically copy it to your clipboard.Tech Prep by Facebook
Tech Prep, by Facebook, aims to teach young people about programming, and all of the potential job opportunities that coding knowledge can give them when they grow up.Floid
Floid is a UX design tool for creating multiscreen app flows and interactive animations. You can use it to create almost native-like prototypes for any device.Front-end Developer Handbook
This Front-end Developer Handbook could be used by anyone to learn about best practices for front-end development. It’s written for dev pros, but can be used secondarily by managers, CTO’s, instructors, and more.Simple Icons
Simple Icons are a set of 154 SVG icons for popular brands, including Ubuntu, Klout, Dribbble, Quora, Reddit, YouTube, and many more.Spec.fm
Spec.fm brings the best podcasts and other resources for the design and development communities together in one place. You can even sign up for updates via email.FontReach
FontReach scans the top million websites to show font usage across the web. Just enter a font name to search for it and see both how many sites it’s used on and what its rank is among all of the common web fonts.Blend
Blend lets you choose from standard color palettes (Flat UI, Material Design, etc.) to create a CSS gradient. It’s easy to use and you can quickly grab the code for your projects.Photon
Photon is the fastest way to build Electron apps using HTML and CSS for cross-platform desktop applications.Expose
Expose is a simple static website generator for photoessays. It also works for videos.Daily UI
Daily UI sends you a prompt every weekday for 100 days that you can then interpret and design a UI element for, making you a better UI designer.Goodbye John Doe
Goodbye John Doe is a peculiar placeholder name generator. Just hit the spacebar to generate a new name.Blur Like Jony
Blur Like Jony is a Photoshop filter plug-in that lets you create blurs the same way Apple does in iOS. Choose from Dark, Light, or Extra Light filters.PeakFeed
PeakFeed is a new way to track your brand’s social media efforts, along with the efforts of up to two competitors.Analytics for Instagram
Analytics for Instagram offers free basic analytics for Instagram, right from your iPhone.WP Email Delivery
WP Email Delivery is managed email delivery for WordPress. It works with any plugin that sends through WP-mail.Neonmetrics
Neonmetrics aggregates and processes your data from the marketing platforms you use to help you design better reports, for you or your clients.Explore Freelance Rates
Explore Freelance Rates is an interactive graph that shows freelance rates across design and development based on skills, experience, and location.Smooch
If you already use HipChat for team chat, then check out Smooch, which lets you speak to your customers directly from HipChat, rather than using a separate app.Fundamental UI Design
FUndamental UI Design is a free weekly email course that teaches key UI design topics.Typorama
Typorama is an iPhone app that transforms your text into beautiful typographic designs automatically.Product Board
Product Board is a platform for launching products that people actually want. It helps you align behind a clear strategy and prioritize what matters.5 Questions for 100 Designers
5 Questions for 100 Designers features short interviews with designers (mainly graphic designers), with five important questions and short answers.Buildbox
Buildbox lets you create games as easily as creating PowerPoint presentations, with no coding required. Build once and then export to over a dozen different platforms.Landing.Jobs
Landing.Jobs helps you find a great tech job by showing curated offers, rather than just a list of random job openings.Bunch
Bunch is a web dashboard that integrates with your teams’ calendars to help automatically manage calendars for you and make your meetings better.Diffd
Diffd lets you compare website versions with highlighted changes before you deploy, without staring at code differences.Cormorant
Cormorant is a serif typeface that’s inspired by the Garamond typeface. Cormorant is meant for use at large sizes, where Garamond appears clunky and inelegant.Nickainley Script
Nickainley Script is a handwriting font with a touch of vintage style. It comes with uppercase, lowercase, numeral, and punctuation.Lumberjack
Lumberjack is a free display font that comes in four styles: regular, rough, inline, and shadow.Koebis
Koebis is a free (in exchange for sharing) display typeface with a modern, stylish aesthetic.Moabhoers Free
Moabhoers Free is a stylish uppercase display font.Labours
Labours is a handcrafted typeface with vintage style, perfect for display use like signage or flyers.Ahamono Monospaced
Ahamono Monospaced is a monospaced font that supports a wide variety of languages, and has slightly exaggerated letterforms when compared to many other monospaced typefaces.Baston
Baston is a distressed, rounded typeface with Latin and Greek letterforms.Demon Letter
Demon Letter is a free gothic-style font that’s perfect for display use on things like packaging and flyers.Ruby Ruby
Ruby Ruby is a handwritten script font for display use.Read Next
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