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Design, Freebies, Utilitys for Design, Vector

Jun 29, 2012

Mojo

18 Useful Kits for Designers

Many designers think that they have to design everything themselves from scratch — but there’s nothing wrong with using elements that other designers have made available for use, so long as you adhere to the terms on which they were made available. Below we’ve compiled 18 great resources including UI kits and icon collections for your convenience.

Electric UI Kit

Tron UI Kit

Simple UI Elements

Dark Neon UI Kit

Moonify UI

Pixel UI Icon Set

Chat UI PSD

Light UI PSD

Glyph UI Icon Set

iPhone 4 GUI PSD

iOS 5 GUI PSD

Cloudy UI Kit

Mass Web UI and Button Set

UI Element Set

Stylish Progress Bar

Simple UI Elements

UI Resource

Lion OS X UI Kit PSD

Blue and White GUI Kit

Did we miss your favorite? Tell us about it in the comments!

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Design, Freebies, Intresting, Utilitys for Design

Jun 29, 2012

Mojo

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Super useful online tools to work with images

Minus

As a developer or designer, you often need to upload images for sharing them with clients or people you work with. Many websites allow you to do so, but what I really love with Minus is how quick and easy it is: Just drop your image on their website, and it’s online. They’ll even give you a short url so you can share your image easily. No registration required!

Just one request, I hope they’ll add a resize image feature soon.
→ Visit Minus

Smush It

When using images on the web, one thing you must definitely think about is the image size. You need to find the good balance between image weight and quality. Smush It is a tool developed by Yahoo! which allow you to optimize your images without losing quality. WordPress users, note that there’s a WP plugin available.
→ Visit Smush It

Placehold It

When creating a website layout, you often need placeholder images of an exact size. Placehold It allows you to dynamically create placeholder images. To use it in your designs, simply use urls like this: <img src="http://placehold.it/350x150"> to display a 350*150 pixels placeholder image.
→ Visit Placehold It

Resize images online

Don’t want to open Photoshop just for resizing an image? This site is here to help. Just upload your image, specify the desired size, and you’re ready to go!
→ Visit Resize images online

Photoshop online tools

When it comes to image editing, Adobe Photoshop is definitely the most popular software. Adobe launched a light version of Photoshop which is available online. The online app is quite powerful and has many features. Unfortunely you have to register to use Photoshop online.
→ Visit Photoshop online tools

Pixlr express

Pixlr express is a simple but powerful app which allow you to resize images, add effects, borders, watermarks, etc. The app is free and does not require registration.
→ Visit Pixelr express

Aviary Phoenix

Developed in Flash, Aviary Phoenix is a super-complete and free online image editor. A real “light photoshop” that you can access from any computer, without any registration.
→ Visit Aviary Phoenix

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Design, Freebies, Photoshop, Utilitys for Design, Web

Apr 26, 2012

Mojo

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Get Your Kits: Fresh Web and Mobile UI Kits, Wireframe Kits and PSD’s

Today, we have a useful compilation for our readers of fresh web UI kits, mobile UI kits and wireframe kits complete with PSD files that will certainly come in handy when you are designing projects. Some basic user interface elements are always welcome toolbox additions by designers. We need them for a wide range of projects in order to able to easily create an accurate UI model of either a website or app.

We hope that this round up of web and mobile user interface kits will prove helpful for the next mock-ups your projects demand. There were quite a bit of tools crammed into this post, so we have split it up onto two pages. Enjoy!

Get Your Kits!

Butterscotch UI Kit
This free download is a gorgeous UI kit with resizable shape layers in a clean, well organized PSD file.

Free Candy UI Kit
This bright and cheerful user interface kit contains clean, pixel precise elements that are ideal for web and app projects.

Free Dark UI Kit
Each element in this sharp, clean pack has been hand-crafted in Photoshop, and is fully scalable with vector shape layers. Enjoy!

Light UI Kit (PSD)
This kit has a very light look to it and is also very clean. Everything is 100% vector so you can re-scale this to any size needed.

Heads Up Display UI Kit
Here is a collection of over 50 pixel perfect HUD (Heads Up Display) user interface elements, for wire-framing and mocking-up desktop and web apps.

New Twitter Profile Page GUI PSD
The PSD provides the full mockup with all layers in vectors, allowing you to scale up the design elements without loss of quality.

iPhone UI Kit
These fresh iPhone and iPod Touch user interface elements are beautifully simple and elegant. This kit contains menu bars, list styles, buttons, form elements, icons, and more.

UI Kit
This set contains some truly beautiful UI elements. The link will take you to the comment where you can download the UI kit.

The Ultimate Wireframe UI Kit
This set contains over 60 of the most popular elements in web design. And each element has been created from scratch with Shape Layers, meaning that the whole kit is 100% scalable, and super-easy to edit.

Dark UI kit
Everthing in this wonderful, dark kit is 100% vector, so you can re-scale the elements to any size needed. It also includes a Photoshop PSD file.

Wireframe Sketch Sheets
Included in this set of sketch sheets are 10 printable templates for website designs, and iPhone and iPad app mock-ups. The designs are proportional and use a grid of 32 pixel squares for guidance and straightforward translation to Photoshop or Fireworks etc. when you are finished.

Votes & Ratings UI Kit
Here is a set of fully layered, editable Photoshop web elements for voting systems and ratings on the web. Everything in the pack should be scalable without any redrawing or major effort.

Simple UI Kit
This simple kit includes radio buttons, checkboxes, search boxes, regular and rounded buttons, on and off gui switches and more! Everything is 100% vector and can be re-scaled to any size if needed.

Blanc Web Elements
This set of web and user interface elements was created specifically for light, crisp websites and applications.

Minion UI
The idea behind this user interface kit was to make a dark but sleek UI, that borrows on styles from OS X and Ubuntu. Mission accomplished.

Facebook Fan Page GUI PSD
This kit allows you to mock-up fan pages for your clients looking to expand their brand to FB. All layers are vectorized, allowing you to scale up the GUI without loss of quality.

Lion Ui Kit Preview
This Mac OS Lion UI kit is perfect for those who need to create mock-ups in a Lion environment. The link will take you to the comment where you can download the UI kit.

Creamy UI Kit
This kit includes radio buttons, checkboxes, a percent slider, previous/next buttons, rectangular/circular buttons, search boxes, tick/cross buttons, and the on/off GUI. Everything is 100% vector and can be scaled to any size if needed.

Media Toolbar UI
This is a simple, sleek designed media toolbar user interface that’s 100% vector, so you can re-scale this to any size if needed.

iTunes UI Kit
This unique set contains some rather beautiful iTunes based UI design elements that could be just what your next project needs.

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Design, Fonts, Freebies

Feb 16, 2012

Mojo

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44 Websites to Find Free Fonts

If you’re a graphic designer who can’t bear to see Helvetica used for one more postcard or Times New Roman on another newsletter, then it’s time to expand your font library. But what to do when you’re a freelancer on a budget? Find free fonts!

League Script #1, from The League of Moveable Type

I racked the brains of designers as well as scoured the web in search of free fonts. I then compiled a list that includes popular go-to sites such as DaFont as well as lesser-known pages and even nondesign websites that just happen to provide free fonts. The fonts you’ll find on these sites include calligraphy, stencils, military, children’s themes, handwriting, graffiti and comic fonts. You’ll find inspiration for wedding invitations, business cards, scrapbooks, marketing postcards, kids’ parties and more.

A caveat: Not every font on each site listed here is free. On some sites, every font is free of charge, and on others, perhaps just one is.

I have a request for typography fans: Which free font sites am I missing?

Johan Cedmar-Brandstedt

The League of Moveable Type

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Freebies, Illustrator

Feb 16, 2012

Mojo

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10 sets de iconos climáticos vectoriales

Si bien los packs tienen como temática el clima, muchos de los elementos que encontraremos en esta recopilación podrán utilizarlos en infinidad de diseños, ya que cuentan con gráficos muy vistosos de usos múltiples.

Todos los sets vienen con un archivo en formato EPS y otro JPG para previsualizarlo, en donde podr{an encontrar diferentes tipos de soles, nubes, granizo, lluvia, fases lunares, rayos, termómetros y todo lo relacionado con lo climático.