Collection of Fresh Design Freebies – December Edition
Although we have already said goodbye to 2015, we still have some left over ‘freshly-baked’ presents for our readers. There is another dose of brand-new freebies, free instruments, and plugins. Dive into our collection and find solutions for quickly improving images regarding responsiveness, generating safe yet flexible foundations, adding fun with the help of animations and much more.
Freebies for Designers and Developers
Pattern Lab
Pattern Lab is a fresh way of constructing website design systems. It is broken into five main stages: atoms, molecules, organisms, templates and pages, in order to streamline the workflow.
Unslider
Unslider is a regular image slider with a convenient navigation and intuitive admin. It is ultra light, simple and reliable. Driven by jQuery, it comprises some beautiful transitions and smooth animations.
Responsify
Responsify is a useful jQuery plugin that serves as an excellent enhancement to any modern UI. It makes images responsive and flexible without sacrificing their quality and sharpness. Just bring the required area into a focus via the particular app and allow the mechanism to do all the heavy lifting.
Gridlex
Gridlex is an effective alternative to massive and heavy grid systems. It is a CSS-powered, lightweight, flexible, robust and intuitive layout module. It can be nested and modified.
AutoCompleteField
AutoCompleteField aims to improve user experience by transforming the boring routine of filling out forms into a mere pleasure. It is applicable only for mobile apps.
Motion
Motion is fast, modular, robust, open-source, retina-ready and easy to use. There is a ton of silky and fancy animations that work consistently across different devices. You will find here vivid demos, tutorials, and documentation that help to turn the project to your advantage.
Avalanche
Avalanche is a viable Sass-driven grid system that has such characteristics as:
- responsiveness;
- clean and valid code;
- simple interface;
- infinite nestings;
- efficient CSS selectors;
- BEM-syntax.
Snatchr
Snatchr is a little Chrome extension that lets you discover the style sheets of other websites. It provides you with information about the background colors, colors used for content and titles, and typefaces applied to headings and paragraphs.
Ally
Ally is a small JavaScript library that is intended to take application accessibility to the next level. It is supported by the latest versions of Firefox, Chrome, Safari, IE, Android and iOS. It covers functions and features that are recommended to be incorporated into the project.
Booking
Booking is a powerful instrument for generating booking widgets on the fly. The feature list includes:
- native collaboration with Google calendar;
- seamless integration into UI;
- quick customization through the filters;
- localization support and others.
Daily UI Challenge
Daily UI Challenge is a mind-blowing project by Paul Flavius Nechita. The online exhibition has a ton of mockups that come in handy for various purposes. There are hand-crafted panels, screens, menus, forms, keyboards and much more. Each item leverages gorgeous coloring and modern style guides, offering users pleasant aesthetics.
Free One Page Website Template
Free One Page Website Template is a versatile product for building landing pages. Quickly customize it or just use as it is. Clean structure, beautiful coloring, and sweet design let you establish your company online quickly.
Android UI Kit
Android UI Kit is a massive giveaway that embraces every tiny detail inherent to the new Android UI. From refined checkboxes, flat buttons, and circular icons to sophisticated functional screens – the package gives you an opportunity to prototype any designs in minutes.
Atomic iOS UI Kit for iPhone
Much like the previous example, the author of Atomic iOS UI Kit for iPhone has crafted a great deal of popular UI components. There are streamlined navbar, ghost buttons, classic switches, keyboard in two color options, pop-up chat bubbles, and other components.
Elegant Vector Kit
Elegant Vector Kit is an outstanding collection of professionally rendered workspace elements. These semi-realistic mockups can be used for building striking hero images, presentations, illustrations, artworks and others. The set comprises:
- Apple products, including watches, iPads, iPhones, etc.;
- Moleskin sketchbooks;
- Canon and much more.
Unique-Tech Website
Unique-Tech Website is a set of three vigilantly created templates that are marked by warm neutral coloring, well-balanced structure, and well organized design. The pages have pleasant aesthetics and a friendly businesslike feeling.
Atomic Material Design Template
Atomic Material Design Template covers everything from the navigation bar to basic poll widgets. Each component owes its beauty to modest coloring, a ton of white space and sharp typography. Grab the Sketch file and enjoy its possibilities.
84 Line Icons
These icons have been produced in one style, however, it is enough to add to the UI a subtle sense of elegance. They go quite well with website and app designs. The package is presented in two traditional formats (AI and PSD).
Eco UI Kit
Eco UI Kit is a small yet professionally crafted collection of basic interface components made with Material Design in mind. Components are based on a beautiful and calm pastel coloring and optimal balance between content and images.
70 Awesome Christmas Icons
We want to close our collection with some festive stuff. This incredible package allows your projects to match the festive mood and add joy and a cheerful attitude to the general atmosphere. Skinny line style icons are delivered in Photoshop shapes and Illustrator SVGs.
Conclusion
The web has become a bright, cheerful and joyful place, and our collection is vivid proof of that. Flat style, Material Design, line style icons, lightweight jQuery-powered tools, instruments for adding animations – are the main building blocks of modern and sophisticated UIs.
If we have missed out something, don’t be shy, share it with us through the comments section. Tell us, do you have any experience with GUIs? Were they helpful for you?
