Exploring Mobile Device and App Development Trends
We have all been hearing the chatter about mobile applications. It seems 2010 has been an astounding year for development in mobile technology, both hardware and software. Apple’s iPhone & iPad along with Google’s Android OS and Microsoft Windows Phone all prove just how large the market currently stands. Trends have been forming over the recent years which might show us where our future is heading. It’s clear the amount…
Top 50 Web Development, Design and Application Icon Sets from 2010
Its that time of year again where we take a look at the best and freely available icon sets for web and application developers. Its been a tremendous year, with many new high quality sets being released, all perfect for your next project. The icons have been split into several categories, starting with the Awesome Packs, which is a round-up of our favorites, followed by the General category (which is…
Ultimate Collection of Printable Mobile Sketching Templates
As an Interface Designer, I am a huge fan of the paper and pencil method of designing a high or low level wireframe for any application – web, desktop, mobile or otherwise. Sketching has proved to be my most valued tool for giving form to my ideas and allowing others to visually understand them. With pen and paper I have found that I am able to stay focused on some…
30 Fresh Web UI, Mobile UI and Wireframe Kits
Following-on from our previously popular Web UI and Wireframe Resources articles, in this round-up we felt we should bring you right up to date by taking a look at some of the freshest freely available UI resources. All of the templates, kits, stencils and even the Photoshop Actions we have in this post have all been designed to help make the initial rapid prototyping stages of web and mobile development…
Designing a Mobile Stylesheet for your Website
It seems mobile is becoming more powerful with the younger tech audience. More kids and young adults are carrying around smartphones than any other time period ever before. Each one of these devices is not just a phone, but a mobile computer built with access to any website over the Internet. This leaves a lot to the imagination when it comes to mobile design. If you are developing a website…
Showcase of Beautiful and Unique iPhone Apps
In this showcase we have a selection of beautifully designed iPhone apps, all utilizing its limited screen size to its full potential, and all have been designed with a carefully crafted UI shell that truly distinguishes them from the rest. MoneyBook MoneyBook is compatible with the iPhone, iPod Touch, the iPad and requires IOS 3.0. Awesome Note Awesome Note is compatible with the iPhone, iPod Touch, the iPad and requires…
Modern UI and Layout Tutorials for Photoshop
It would be very hard to find a situation where Photoshop does not have the perfect solution for any web (or print) design problem. With Photoshop you can pretty much design a web page just as you envisaged mentally, with virtually no creative restrictions and with a pixel-perfect result. Web design trends change, and they change regularly. As such, it is very important that a designer stays on top of…
Illustrator Template Toolbox for Web, Mobile and App Developers
For today’s post we have an extensive selection of UI templates, all in Illustrator format, and all perfect if you are a web, mobile or app designer who prefers to use Adobe Illustrator rather than the more commonly used Photoshop. It was mildly surprising how difficult this post was to put together, I really did expect to find a lot more. What is clear from this is that generally most…
50 Awesome New jQuery Plugins
The jQuery community never ever fails to let you down. Its constantly evolving, constantly improving and, thankfully, constantly releasing a tidal wave of fresh and powerful freely available plugins for every possible requirement. Today we round-up the best and most powerful jQuery plugins from the last few months. You will find a comprehensive selection of the always popular sliders, image galleries, navigation solutions and form validity options. But this round-up…
A Useful Selection of Android Developer Tools and Resources
With its intuitive and open-source platform and support from the huge mobile phone manufacturers HTC, Samsung and Sony Ericsson, Androids year-on-year smart-phone marketshare has shown a massive growth of 886%! Just to put this into perspective, the iPhone has shown only 61% growth. These figures may give you an insight into the popularity of both platforms, but in actual fact, it shows that it is mobile app developers who are…
25 Awesome Adobe Fireworks Resources for Web and App Developers
Adobe Fireworks’ features and work-flow undeniably make it the industry pioneer and leader for web graphic prototyping and rapid web site building. Even though, with each new version, Adobe have slowly over-loaded it with new features – some of these have proved to be useful and popular, while others have simply been pointless – but at its core it will always remain a marvelously easy to use application for web…
30 Fresh Icon Sets for Developers and Designers
We simply love creative icon design, we really really do. As such in this post we have collected a rich list of 30 fresh icon sets specifically for designers and developers.
You will find some mini icons, pictograms, wireframe icons, ecommerce icons, toolbar icons, mobile app icons… the list goes on and on.
Android App Developers GUI Kits, Icons, Fonts and Tools
Hot on the heels of our previous GUI article, iPhone and iPad Development GUI Kits, today we focus on Android development. The idea is the same: To help streamline your app design and development, with a fairly comprehensive collection of Android GUI kits, icons, fonts, .psds and tools, that will allow you to focus on developing rather than having to design everything from scratch. In comparison to Apples iPhone, the…









