We have a fantastic freebie for all of you web designers out there, you’ll love this:) Designed by Land-of-Web, the Colorful 3D UI Kit comes in .psd format and is full of beautifully designed modern web elements covering almost all aspects of web design

It has been a long time since we last took a look at what GUI kits were freely available. So, in this round-up we thought we would bring you right up to date by taking a look at some of the best and freshest that are freely available. Every designer who has spent many hours mocking up web pages or mobile apps will tell you how important it is to have a reliable set of re-usable, editable and uniform GUI [...]

A popular trend knowadays is for websites and services to use integrated social networking logins to rapidly reduce the time it would take a typical user to signup (no more filling in forms and remembering another password). Not only do social logins aid the user, they also greatly benefit websites and services, allowing them to increase the volume of signups and improve their service based on the information that has been shared by the social network. Socialising really is everywhere. [...]

We have partnered with MediaLoot to offer you a fantastic free resource today: A Glossy 3D Web UI Kit. The kit is available in both .psd and .png versions and is choc-full of beautifully designed modern web elements covering almost all aspects of web design. We have also been given 20% off coupons for any MediaLoot subscription to the first 20 people to sign-up. You can sign-up here, using the coupon code speckyboy20: http://medialoot.com/join/. Glossy 3D Web UI Kit Individual [...]

The wireframing process is the straight-to-the-point and completely non-tech stage of any web project. It only requires that you define a skeletal outline of essential page elements such as headers, footers, navigation and content area and should illustrate how to cater and respond to any possible interaction from a user. It is the most important, yet underused, stage of any web or apps development. There are several avenues you could take for sketching a wireframe, most notably pen and paper [...]

Once or twice a year we like to take a look at what new icon sets are freely available for designers and developers. We have found a nice selection for you covering most aspects of web, mobile and app development. You will love them! You may also like: The Top 50 Web Development Icon Sets from 2009 → Top 50 Web Development, Design and Application Icon Sets from 2010 → 50 of the Best Ever Web Development, Design and Application [...]

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 that little bit easier, quicker and smoother. As you would [...]

Today we have another exclusive free icon-set for our readers. Designed by our friends from Iconshock.com, the set is called The Speckyboy Toolbar Icon Set, containing 10 glorious and beautifully designed 256px icons in PNG format and are perfect for any web design project. Also included in the download are the AI source files. Speckyboy Toolbar Icon Set Preview Download the Icons This icon sets download package contains the ten PNG toolbar icons, the AI source files and are all [...]

If you are searching for an editable version of a particular icon or button for your current web design project, then look no further. In this post we have 60 individual icons and buttons, all in PSD format, covering almost every possible web design style and function. You might also like: 50 High Quality Free Icon Sets in PSD Format 40 Professional and Detailed Web Layout PSD Templates 20 Free Web UI Element Kits and Stencils The Button Project This [...]

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 IOS 3.0. Diacarta Diacarta is compatible with the iPhone, iPod [...]

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 the game and their UI designs reflect modern design demands. [...]

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 designers would not even consider Illustrator for UI design, which [...]

“> If I am honest, I don’t really know how popular Google Docs is within the freelance community, but I have found that I have been using it a lot more recently. To the extent that I seem to have more documents stored online that I do on my hard drive and its one of the first places I go to when I start work in the morning. I don’t use it solely for drafts of posts and articles, but [...]