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Selected patterns from the book are featured here on the website, in their entirety. Here are all of the patterns in the second edition of the book, sorted by chapter. Most of these patterns are not online yet, but many of them will become available over time as featured patterns. Patience! What users do Patterns of user behavior Safe Exploration Instant Gratification Satisficing Changes in Midstream Deferred Choices Incremental Construction Habituation Microbreaks NEW Spatial Memory Prospective Memory Streamlined Repetition Keyboard Only Other People’s Advice Personal Recommendations NEW Getting around Navigation, signposts, and wayfinding Clear Entry Points Menu Page NEW Pyramid Modal Panel Deep-linked State NEW Escape Hatch Fat Menus NEW Sitemap Footer NEW Sign-in Tools NEW Sequence Map Breadcrumbs Annotated Scrollbar Animated Transition Organizing the page Lists of things Images, messages, search results, etc. Doing things Going mobile

Design Shack | This Week in Design Are you in the holiday spirit yet? This week in design we are. From creative thinking during the holiday season to tools for a great photo book and even tips for hiring a designer, this week the theme is looking forward during this busy time. We’d also like to take a moment to acknowledge and appreciate our Design Shack readers. Every week, we plan to a look at major product releases and upgrades, tools and tricks and even some of the most popular things you are talking about on social media.

Smashing Mag | Design Archives 1,075 Awesome Free Fonts For Designers | Web Designer Hub Share on Twitter109Share on Facebook256Share on Google Plus31Share on Stumbleupon115KShare on Reddit0 This is meta collection of free font lists from various respected design websites. In total there are 24 lists showcasing 1,075 fonts which are all free to download. These font collections are shortlists of the best free fonts of 2013 and 2014 which which will hopefully save you a load of time if you are on the hunt for quality designer typography. The fonts vary in style and are ideal for websites, flyers, brochures, logos and graphic designers. Awwards – 100 Greatest Fonts of 2014 View Fonts Hongkiat’s 100 Must Have Free Fonts CreativeBloq’s 100 Best Free Fonts For Designers Creativeshory’s 75 Best Fonts of 2014 UMagazine’s 60 Free Fonts DesignModo’s 23 Free Fonts – Behance Collection Naldz Graphics’s 40 Best Fonts UMagainze’s 22 Free Fonts for Pro Designers Graphic Design Junction’s 100 Free Fonts For Designers Designer Optimus – 20 Free Best Fonts for 2014 WDL – 12 Best Free Fonts of 2013

Shutterstock 50 Websites For Free Vector Images Download Unlike raster images, vector images are flexible and scalable enough to not lose quality when stretched out beyond their original size. This makes it perfect for use for both web and print design. In fact, we have plenty of compilations that feature vector images (you can start with our multipurpose vector icon sets), but in case you want to do your own searches, we have the next best thing. Are you wondering where to download free vectors for your next project? Note: While most (if not all) of them are free, we still encourage you read and understand their license before downloading and using these free vectors. 40+ Websites to Download Royalty-Free Images 40+ Websites to Download Royalty-Free Images Chances are you're pretty tired of seeing traditional stock photos of people in suits shaking hands. Pikbest Pikbest is a design resource platform that has thousands of vectors, along with graphic templates, videos and music. Vecteezy Vecteezy is home to vector icons, art and patterns. Freepik

This Month in Typography Welcome to this month’s roundup of type-related info and entertainment. Today, we examine the art and science of crafting fonts, wonder about the future of libraries in the digital age, discuss the future of graphic design, delve into the history of curly letters of Amsterdam, talk with experts about the recent hand-lettering boom, research the health effects of typefaces, run down the history of the tilde, clarify commonly abused typography terminology, and more. Designing Obsidian A couple of months ago, we featured Obsidian in this column — a typeface that was arduously crafted via algorithms to get amazing shading effects. In this video, Andy Clymer talks at length about the creation of Obsidian. Microsite for Benton Modern A lovely website showing off a lovely set of webfonts. Algorithmic Typeface Generation Kyuha Shim, a researcher in computational graphic design, is using computer science to automate the design of typefaces. Typography Experts Weigh in on the Hand Lettering Boom

FreeMediaGoo.com designskilz | Beautiful, Free Web Fonts Below you will find a showcase of the best free web fonts from the Google web fonts directory. See the examples of these web fonts and choose the one fit for your website. Click the examples to get the web font. If you enjoyed this post please subscribe. Alegreya Alegreya is a free font designed by Juan Pablo del Peral. Archivo Narrow Archivo Narrow is a free font designed by Omnibus Type. Arimo Arimo is a free web font designed by Steve Matteson. Bitter Bitter is a contemporary typeface designed by Sol Matas. Cardo Cardo is a large Unicode font designed by David Perry. Chivo Chivo is a free web font designed by Omnibus Type. Domine Domine is a free web font designed by Pablo Impallari. Dosis Dosis is a simple typeface designed by Edgar Tolentino and Pablo Impallari. Droid Sans Droid Sans is a free web font designed by Steve Matteson. Fanwood Text Fanwood Text is a free web font designed by Barry Schwartz. Fauna One Fauna One is a modern typeface designed by Eduardo Tunni. Inconsolata Josefin Slab