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 [...]

To help streamline your iPhone app design and development, we have put together a fairly comprehensive collection of iPhone & iPad GUI kits that will allow you to focus on developing rather than having to design everything from scratch. Within this post you will find complete GUI kits and stencils, iPhone GUI elements and PSDs and finally a collection of the best icon-sets perfectly suited for the iPhone. (Some of the preview images are intentionally to large to show the [...]

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 a selection of multi-purpose sets), the Mobile developer category, the [...]

This post is a little bit early, but it is best to be prepared – Christmas is coming and if you're looking for something to bring some Xmas cheer to your website this year you will be glad to know that there are a lot of social media icon options to choose from. What better way is there to say Merry Christmas to your readers. In this post we have collected a selection of Christmas related social bookmarking icons, such [...]

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 of the finer details that should be taken care of [...]

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 [...]

In this article we feature 25 multi-purpose pictogram and symbol sign icon sets that have all been stripped down to their bare essentials and presented in there simplest form and all ready for use. All of these icons are multi-purpose, meaning you could either use them within web design (the main focus of the round-up), poster design, logo design, banners… anything you want. They are flexible, meaning you can re-size them from 8x8px to whatever you size need. They are [...]

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 [...]