Top 50 Web Development, Design and Application Icon Sets from 2011 This is now our fourth year rounding up the the best icon sets for web designers and developers. And what another fantastic year 2011 it has been! You’ll love this selection. All of the icon sets below have been split into several categories: Glyphs & Pictograms, Mini Sets, General Sets, Ecommerce Icon Sets, Mobile Specific Icons and finally, a selection of high quality and versatile Social Media Icon Sets. If you feel we have missed out any icon-set from this year, we would love to hear about it in the comments. Glyphs & Pictograms Mimi Glyphs Number of Icons: 80 Size(s): 16×16 Format(s): .psd, .png & .csh Mimi Glyphs → WP7 Icons Number of Icons: 105 Size(s): 48×48 Format(s): .png WP7 Icons → 99+ Icons Number of Icons: 99 Format(s): .ai 99+ Icons → iconSweets 2 Number of Icons: 400+ Format(s): .psd iconSweets 2 → Retro Icon Set Number of Icons: 28 Size(s): 16×16, 32×32 & 64×64 Format(s): .ai Retro Icon Set → Signify Lite (Icon Font) Number of Icons: 38 Signify Lite → Melticons Monochromatic 1 Icon Set
Design and Build Email Newsletters Without Losing Your Mind (and Advertisement “We really love this new website you’ve built! Now we’d like to send out an email to all of our customers, friends and anyone, and it should look exactly like the website except with a spinning mailbox at the bottom, and have my photo, and my cat’s photo…” Ever had that conversation with a client? You’ve built plenty of websites in your time and could knock off a blog template in your sleep, but HTML email? The mere mention of it sends some designers into physical shock (try it if you ever get stuck in a tedious conversation about XHTML vs. This article gives you the information you need to plan, design and build an HTML newsletter that renders well and is actually useful to recipients. If you’d like to get started right now, here are the cheat notes to get you on the right track. Respect your reader. 1. The email inbox is a noisy busy place for a newsletter to land. So when your email does arrive, make sure it doesn’t waste their time. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. (al)
40 High Quality Free PSD Files Released In 2010 By AN Jay on December 27, 2010 40 High Quality Free PSD Files Released In 2010 Don't Forget to participate in a contest where you can win an amazing e-Commerce template from TemplateMonster. Photoshop is the great tool for the designer and mostly designers look for the PSD files that they can use in their designs. So we decided to collect some of the best PSD files which were created in 2010. Below are 40 high quality free PSD files from 2010 including web elements, graphic elements, iPhone, iPad, Cover, logo, buttons, web layout, icons and many more. Free Sign PSD Ueling Mandos Freebie Interface .psd Vector iPhone 4 PSD File Safari Icon Kubilay Sapayer Free Layered House Icon PSD PostCard PSD Brochure Template Layered PSD Santa Claus Escalator Hi Res PSD SPLART Free PSD Urban Hockey PSD iPhone mania GT car free number seven iPad PSD Sliding Jewel Box -Bluray Xpress Music 5800 Android Live View Device Icon PSD File Sony Playstation 3 Slim Knife party Chest 3 Touch screen icon Retro clock PSD Apple iPhone 4G Modern
Tips for Coding and Designing Usable Web Forms Jan 21 2010 By Louis Lazaris The web form has been one of the most discussed elements in web design for more than ten years now. We can’t help it. While it is fairly easy to slap together a form in HTML, it’s not as easy to code, style, and design your form in a manner that makes it usable and accessible to the majority of users. Two-Column vs. This decision will generally depend on the content of the form, but it’s often preferable to avoid a two-column layout if the form is fairly simple. Below is a good example of a simple form that places each label above its related form element. What are the benefits to this type of form layout, as opposed to a two-column form? By contrast, look at the two-column form below: Especially because of the left-aligned text and lack of color, this form doesn’t have the same clean, visual effect as the previous example. Use Inline Form Validation Recently Luke Wroblewski wrote about the effectiveness of inline form validation on A List Apart. Further Reading
Free Wireframing Kits, UI Design Kits, PDFs and Resources - Smashing Magazine Advertisement To mock-up the user interface of a website, software or any other product, you’ll need some basic UI elements. And this is where wireframing kits and UI design kits come in handy. When you want to create a low-fidelity prototype for your projects, you can use these kits to give your idea a certain shape, keeping it abstract and not losing yourself in details. In this post, we’ve prepared an overview of useful web and mobile user interface kits, handy PDFs and resources that you can use in your projects. Free Mobile GUI PSD Android GUI PSD1 This Android GUI PSD is based on elements of the Android 1.5 GUI and was made to help the open-source community with its Android application mock-ups. RIM Blackberry PSD2 A complete PSD file with layer styles, this has 135 layers of Photoshop goodness. Android Sketch Stencil Version 1.03 A Sketch-style Android OmniGraffle template. iPhone 4 GUI PSD (Retina Display)5GUI PSD kit for creatives who design for the retina display (640×960).
50 Creative Examples of Illustrations in Web Design : Speckybo Using illustration in web design gives the designer the opportunity to convey there own personal and unique style, and be able to say "this site is mine, and look what I can do". Very few web design styles give an artist this opportunity. What makes the examples below stand out are not just the beautiful illustrative art work nor the carefully crafted web designs, it is the balance between the two that distinguishes them from the rest. They all manage to be unique in there own right, by highlighting the illustration with carefully positioned content. And when this is a achieved successfully, the effect is amazing and memorable. VixML N.Design Studio Bogdan Teodorescu The Shark Lab Creative Spark 10Words – RichPurple pixelcool – we make every pixel look great! Pixel Thread AppBoy – A Social Outlet for Mobile App Lovers Yellow Bird Project Matthew Tarpley Matt Salik Attack of the Web Hua Zhong Wen Bet Your Followers BlackMoon Design Camellie odosketch Sushimonstr One Lucky Helen Kitfolio.com SuperLogistik Meomi
Creating Minimalist Designs Makes You a Better Designer The trend of using minimalist designs has been with us for a while now. It seems like every day major design blogs publish a new gallery of great designs. But do minimalist designs actually mean anything to a designer? Can you become a better web designer by going the minimalist way or is it just a fad? Actually, I do believe that it is a fad. First of all, minimalist designs are here not without a reason. Minimalist designs change all that and provide a new, friendly environment. That is, of course, when done right. So how can web designers use the trend of minimalism to improve their skills, and how to actually design a minimalist site properly? Focus attention on the main element Minimalist designs have very little elements incorporated into them. This forces designers to choose just one main element that will be the focal point of the whole site. What can be such an element? In such a case the main element would probably be the signup form. Get those few elements right madebysofa.com
Showcase Of Modern Navigation Design Trends - Smashing Magazine Advertisement The navigation menu is perhaps a website’s single most important component. Navigation gives you a window onto the website designer’s creative ability to produce a functional yet visually impressive element that’s fundamental to most websites. Because of their value to websites, navigation menus are customarily placed in the most visible location of the page, and thus can make a significant impact on the visitor’s first impression. The design of a navigation menu has to be outstanding in order to sustain the user’s interest. As the adage goes, “Content is king,” but getting to the content requires navigation. You should also read the following related posts: 3-D Navigation Lately, we’ve seen a trend towards design elements that sit on a higher z-plane; that is, they appear closer than other elements on the page. DelibarThe content area on the Delibar website looks like a pile of two pieces of paper, with the navigation items holding them together. Speech Balloons
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80+ Photoshop Actions for Giving Your Pictures a Vintage Look | Photoshop actions are great. With just a click of a button you can apply a complicated effect to a photo instantly. One of the most popular type of actions is the vintage or retro style. With the popularity of vintage-inspired Instagram filters and film emulation, the older style is desired with many photos. Fortunately, there are plenty of quality Photoshop actions that will help you to get vintage effects quickly and easily. In this article, I’ve rounded up over eighty Photoshop actions that will add very cool vintage or retro effects to your photos. Instagram Filters (13 actions) Lomocam (10 actions) Lomo Action Hard Lomo Action Holgarizer Vintage Light Leak Action Vintage Heaven Action Vintage Dream Action Retro Cross Action Vintage Matte Action Faded Film Action Old Film Action Retro Style Actions (10 actions) Instant Hipster (10 actions) Prestalgia (10 actions) Vintage Gold Action Aged Black & White Action Glory Days Vintage Actions (7 actions) Muted Colors Vintage Action Old Tones (6 actions)
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