Map Icons Designer is a free set of 200+ icons that are designed to be used in maps.
The set is available in 2 formats: PSD (vector shape) + PNG and includes items for transportation, hotels, restaurants, animals and much more.
There are also 10 different-styled location pins where all look great.
And, the set is completely free to be used in both personal + commercial projects.
Prototyping any type of design (web/app/code) helps minimizing hassle in the next steps of the creation process.
WireKit, a set of free Photoshop shape layers, simplifies creating prototypes for iPhone apps.
It comes in 2 versions: solid (realistic) and stroke (sketchy) where each version includes 60+ elements.
The layers are very well organized + named and they are all consistent in size + how they look.
Metrize is a slick set of 300+ vector icons that have a Metro UI-like style.
The set comes in multiple vector formats (PSD, SVG, EPS, AI, PDF) and as a web font.
All major items required for web apps are included in the set (like arrows, actions, social networks, etc.).
And, it can be used freely in both personal + commercial projects (no attribution required).
There are thousands of design freebies and each of us are probably using them regularly.
When it comes to finding such freebies, Freepik, a search engine that indexes only vectors, PSDs and photos can be very useful.
The search engine crawls many design-related websites, ranks the found resources with their relevance and presents to the user.
It is possible to narrow the search with the file type (vector, photo, PSD) and categories offered (nature, buttons, icons, background, etc.).
Also, the website offer various premium design materials like stock videos, images and design deals.
For e-commerce websites, icons and buttons for payment processors are always needed.
Pepsized, a creative website providing design freebies and tutorials, is sharing a huge set of free buttons for payment services.
There are 75 items in the set and all have 2 sizes (99×66px and 64×43px) in PNG format.
Also, a blank PSD button exists for creating any new ones.
Everybody loves high-quality and free icons with a massive number of items and Gemicon is an exciting set that will surely get your love.
This set consists of 600+ icons that are available in both PNG and PSD.
It is offered in multiple sizes (16*16px, 32*32px, 64*64px) and PSD version is created as a shape layer so that it can scale.
Gemicon is completely free to be used in both personal + commercial projects.
Few weeks ago, EmailCraft, an e-mail/newsletter design and markup service, has contacted me asking whether their service can be reviewed at WRD.
I thought this was a chance to offer another nice freebie to WRD readers and try the service which I was aware of for a long time.
EmailCraft gifted their “Design & Markup” package (priced $178). I was also in need of a newsletter design for a project I was part of (ioDeck) and ordered a design-markup for it.
The brief was simple: “a slick newsletter to share any upcoming features with few screenshots and details”. The output is pretty nice, we’ll be using it regularly and want to share it considering you may want to as well. Here it is (click for full version):
The communication with the EmailCraft team was great and they created 2 different templates to choose from.
I selected the one above and requested few revisions. They were so responsive and quickly replied to the changes I asked for (all the process took only few days).
In the past, I have used PSD to HTML services and this was the first time for an e-mail markup service.
Imho, it makes so much sense as designing newsletters is a pain considering each e-mail client has its own rules and things are much worse compared to crafting HTML-CSS for websites (btw, the template above is compatible with all major e-mail clients/platforms).
P.S. The template is completely free to be used in personal and commercial projects with no attributions. It is only not allowed to redistribute the template.
Few weeks ago, WRD had shared an awesome and professional UI kit (named The Bricks UI) created by DesignModo.
In case you still didn’t get it but want to, MightDeals is offering the kit for a very good price for a limited time (Developer’s License for $49 rather than $289).
The Bricks is a well-layered PSD kit that is handy for and web designer/developer to create good looking interfaces.
It includes hundreds of web elements including charts, sliders, forms, shopping carts and so much more. Also, it has a slick icon set with 150 items.
The kit is based on a 12 grid system and pieces work with each other like a puzzle.
Today is the last day for the MightyDeals deal and make you check it out in case you missed this high-quality kit previously.
Christmas, so do the new year, is around the corner and snow, santa, christmas tree, ornaments are probably the most requested design elements.
They will be needed in brochures, newsletters or to provide a tiny “new year make-up” to websites.
As expected, WRD has dug the Christmas and new year vectors for you so that you don’t need to. Here they are with the vector formats provided:
The talented team at DesignModo has created a new UI design kit, The Bricks, and they are giving away 3 licenses to WRD readers (2 personal and 1 developer license).
The Bricks is a PSD UI kit which comes in 4 parts: Forms, Elements, E-commerce and Words.
It consists of many beautiful, pixel-perfect items which play well with each other and each having multiple variations.
A 12 column grid is used and every UI element in the kit fits to the grid perfectly.
Each layer in the PSD file is named, grouped and organized carefully so that working with them don’t get complicated.
Also, The Bricks comes with a slick icon set that looks good with the rest of the kit. It is in Photosop Shapes format so that it can scale as we wish.
3 licenses of The Bricks is being given away:
Congratulations to the winners and thanks to everyone for joining the giveaway.
