Premium Pixels is a website by the talented web designer Orman Clark which regularly shares design resources created by him.
The resources include .PSD files of menus, icons and even full websites templates or Photoshop brushes, patterns and much more.
Every resource comes with the source files + full layers included and they are free to be used in both personal/commercial projects.
Photoshop offers many libraries to help speeding up a design process like patterns, brushes or textures.
And, custom shapes is one of them which can really be a huge time-saver when you have the quality sets.
Besides the ability to insert a good-looking object into our designs instantly, they can be used in any size as they are vectorized.
Here is a collection of high quality and free Photoshop custom shapes (40+ sets, 1000s of items).
Just drop the .csh files downloaded into the "Photoshop installation location>Presets>Custom Shapes" folder and restart Photoshop. That's it!
Boxtuffs is a website which is regularly sharing pretty original and free resources created with HTML5 + CSS3 and built by Salvador Lopez Mendoza, a talented icon + UI designer.
The "stuffs" includes an auto-growing search box, an on/off switch, a download button and more. But all with a twist.
And, a great thing about the resources is "every download comes with the PSD source files".
FULL Creative, a digital creative agency, is sharing a set of free mobile user interface design elements named Mobility.
The set comes as a layered .PSD file and includes the most common elements like tabs, form elements, slider and more.
It has a black-red theme however, considering it comes with the source, any colors can be applied easily.
WebDesignShock, a blog on web design and development, is sharing a free Android GUI set in PSD format.
It is a very handy resource for Android developers to better prototype their applications and includes:
All in layered PSD with the original fonts included.
This is a free web wireframing kit for planning the layout of web projects easily and quickly.
It comes as a full-layered PSD file where all elements are grouped carefully.
There are many elements included like form elements, audio/video players, navigation, calendar and more.
And, the kit comes in 2 color themes: black and white.
Previously, a post at WRD was sharing the free vector icons created by Webalys.
Lately, there are 2 great additions to these free resources offered and it almost became a UI design framework.
The new resources are a GUI Library which includes 100s of items and a Styles Library which has 200 styles, both to be used in Illustrator.
The set is simply a must-bookmark for designing wireframes faster and creating better mockups.
Facebook is a huge platform for improving the community of anything (a business, blog, etc.) or for creating applications and reaching lots of users.
Smashing Magazine is sharing a full-layered Facebook GUI PSD Kit, designed by SurgeWorks, which can be very helpful for any Facebook application or fan page designer/developer to better imagine what the output will look like.
Besides the Facebook icon and logo, the kit includes items like the header, menu, chat window and all the modal components, comment boxes, buttons, message boxes, tabs, etc.
They are all in vector format (.PSD) with full layers.
MadPattern is a collection of free Adobe Illustrator templates for quickly creating patterns.
It includes one template for each type of pattern and comes with automatic symmetric replication + clipping of elements drawn "out of bounds".
There is also a gallery which shares the patterns created with the kit (you can submit yours as well).
Every web designer can follow a different route when sketching the output. It can be an image in the mind, created with a software, drawn with hand on a paper, etc.
Whatever your choice is and even if paper sketching is not your best option, it can still be needed for anyone (while discussing with a client, sketching offline and instantly..).
Paper Browser is a set of PDF files that look like a browser which can be used for sketching easily once they are printed.
They both come with landscape and portrait versions.
