Collection of Fresh Design Freebies – September Edition
Each day the Web becomes a better place not only in terms of design and UX but also in terms of online services. Eager and selfless developers and designers come up with helpful instruments, modern UI sets, stylish icon packs and responsive website themes and give them all away, throwing a lifeline to the seekers and newbies. You can find answers to almost all of your questions. And every month we pick up the most valuable and helpful resources. So let’s open our autumn series.
Freebies for Designers and Developers
Tridiv
Tridiv is a matchless online web-based editor that offers an intuitive interface for creating 3d objects based on CSS. The settings panel lets you manipulate with shape properties and shape styles.
Flarum
With a two-pane interface, elegant essential components, infinite scrolling, floating composer, fully responsive layout, swipe gestures, extensible architecture, and fancy animations, Flarum is a fast, lightweight and painless way to create modern forums from scratch.
Rucksack
Rucksack claims to be super fast and super lightweight. This toolbox enhances CSS development on all fronts, enriching your projects with extra features. Its aim is to let you seize the power of the language.
Zoomable UI
Zoomable UI is a huge step towards better user experience. The website is a representative example of a new way of presenting data. It makes the site look like an app thereby erasing drastic boundaries between desktop and mobile interfaces.
Forensically
Although Forensically is only in Beta version, it already offers some excellent instruments for working with images. This online service includes such tools as a magnifier, clone detection, noise analysis, metadata and more.
Pure CSS Apple
Pure CSS Apple provides you with a playground where you can create or randomly generate an Apple device. The range covers all the popular gadgets starting from iMac and ending with iPhone 6. You can edit colors and manipulate with size. The primary benefit is that the graphics are produced only with CSS, so you can grab the code and install it into your project.
Lightning Design System
Lightning Design System includes all the integral elements such as breadcrumbs, buttons, data tables, cards, datepicker, images, icons, grid systems, spinners, tabs and even trees to make development a piece of cake.
Paradeiser
Paradeiser is an elegant and smart answer to favorite hamburger menu buttons. It is a simple, streamlined navigation bar that weighs only 1.3kb and does not require any support from JS. It is well-suited to desktop, tablet and mobile UIs.
Minigrid
Minigrid is a fresh and lightweight solution for creating online portfolios and galleries. It serves as a solid and at the same time flexible and fully adaptive foundation that is equipped with extra animation features.
404 Repo
404 Repo is a fantastic source for those of you who want to derive benefits from any opportunity. It is a collection of free illustrations that transform 404 pages into friendly masterpieces. There are funny, serious, artistic and others.
Resource Pocket
A daily updated collection of freebies, tutorials, code snippets, interesting articles and more for designers and developers. Submitted links are welcome if you wish to publicize your freebie.
Snow
Snow – A Free Bootstrap Landing Page by Visual Soldiers has a gorgeous coloring that in tandem with lots of white space and nifty flat graphics produces a powerful general impression. Thanks to the boilerplate that underlies the structure, it is also mobile-friendly.
Free UI Kit For Stars
Free Ui Kit For Stars by Dovydas Vystartas is a package of professionally executed mobile screen interfaces. Here you will find contacts, login form, stats, data widget, call interface and others.
Freebie – UI Kit
Freebie – UI Kit by Apostol Voicu is marked by a beautiful blueish coloring, radiant gradients, solid white backdrops and image canvases. The pack is made with card design in mind. It covers navigation and several functional modules and components such as media player, mailbox or profile.
LUNA
LUNA – FREE Personal Blog Template by Ducan Nguyen features three types of home pages. Each one has a boxy vibe, a generous amount of whitespace, neat formatting, streamlined navigation and focus on the visuals.
PSD Template
Free Responsive PSD template for the musician by Alex Nikandrov and Viacheslav Olianishyn is a modern, easily adaptive, long one-page theme that includes all the necessary sections for familiarizing the online audience with artist’s career. There are also a blog area and section dedicated to upcoming events.
Philomela
Philomela – iPhone 6 Music Player by Robert Berki has nine fully layered, appropriately titled and neatly grouped PSD files for nine corresponding screens. The design is sophisticated, and structure is well-balanced. The magnificent dark coloring adds refinement.
200 Nanoline Icons Set by Agung Syaifudin
This is another package of ultra-thin assorted icons that give the design a subtlety. It includes items for finishing off website and app Uis.
All Devices in SVG
All Devices in SVG By Chris Gannon is a small code snippet that demonstrates animated transformation from one device to another. It is a perfect way to clearly show changes of UI when it adapts to various screen dimensions.
App Presentation Templates
App Presentation Templates is a small yet quite useful asset that includes 15 multiple screens for presentation. It has monitors, notebooks, tablet, cell-phone and even iWatch mockup.
One line – Free Startup icons by Differantly Studio
This is a fresh take on outlined icons. The artist has created each item using only one line. This is quite crafty, inventive and smart. The set comprises 20 elegant and sleek objects.
Conclusion
While Material Design takes root more deeply, the web is replenished with gorgeous interfaces, bright sets of integral elements and smooth line style icons. Online services that aim to increase the potential of websites as well as make them more lightweight and dynamic also contribute to the community.
Which freebie do you find the most useful? Have you already tried any of the services listed above? Share with us your experience.
