MediaLoot is presenting a free set of user interface elements that can help designing/prototyping faster.
It has 3 distinct styles: glossy, satin/light gradient, and one-color which the satin/light gradient set is available in 7 different colors.
The set comes in both .PNG & .PSD formats and includes items like:
It is sometimes the lack of inspiration or resources or being too busy, there is usually a moment that every designer, developer & creative agency wishes the touch of a magic hand that would create for them.
DesignCrowd, a marketplace for graphic design & creative services, can be what you're looking for & more.
It is a web-based service that helps you to get multiple custom designs for a project (~20-100) via crowdsourcing.
The service has 2 ends, you can be the "client designed for" or the designer (or both):
This is the place to reach 12,000 designers & outsource design jobs like PSD web design, logo design, etc.
Outsourcing is completely turn on & off, no setup fees, monthly payments, etc.
It is very straight forward & results are received in a few steps:
The service is white labelled which means you can brand it however you like & present to your clients as your interface.
This is where the design jobs & a number of contests exist.
It is a very ideal place to make a good use of free time to build a portfolio on real projects & earn money by participating into jobs posted.
You can select from a list of jobs & submit any number of designs to increase the chance of being selected as the winner. You can also find multi-quote jobs and submit quotes.
Although the winner is awarded with the project budget, there are also participation payments where you can be paid even if a design submitted is not selected.
DesignCrowd, with how it works & the community it has, can be a time-saver for anyone in search of a designer that can create 10s of designs to choose from in a very short time.
After digging DesignCrowd in detail, I really think that every design-related person can find a use of it.
To find out what type of a design quality to expect, there is a list of top designers which you can see what they have already created.
Creative Nerds, a blog focused on design inspiration, is sharing 100+ free letter pressed icons in PSD format.
This beautiful set comes in 3 different styles. It includes icons of social bookmarking, actions & other various shapes.
They are free to be used in both personal & commercial projects.
Pavel Macek, a talented graphic designer, is sharing a free Android GUI PSD file for creating mock-ups easier.
It is based on the Android 1.5 & consists of a phone illustration, basic elements & screens.
The complete set has an one file preview for seeing what you'll get before downloading.
P.S. Android presents a detailed information about Android GUI design guidelines that can be very helpful while creating applications for the platform.
Shaboopie, a website with lots of web & graphic design freebies, is presenting 80+ good looking & free vector logos.
All logos are very modern, slick & offered in PSD format.
You can check the logos faster with the snapshots:
The website also presents inspirational posts like this or this besides the freebies.
Dezinerfolio is presenting a fresh set of 30 free & iPhone-like vector icons.
The icons are all in one .PSD file, well-layered, ready to modify & improve.
Besides web applications, they are also suitable to be used as iPhone menu bar icons.
Glyphish is a set of 130 beautiful & free icons that are optimized for use on toolbars/tab bars in iPhone applications (but they are also great to be used in websites as well).
The icons in the set has various sizes in transparent PNG. Also the .PSD & .AI files are included in the download package which makes editing/improving them possible.
WebTreats ETC is presenting 35+ sets of free tileable Photoshop patterns.
Every pattern is very creative & beautiful enough for adding a twist to any design.
Images used are generally very large (740px+) & download packages include both the .PAT and .JPG files.
P.S. The website also offers some free Photoshop brushes, PSDs & icons.
Web Elements Kit is a set of 17 frequently used web design objects that comes in PSD format.
It can be used for easier prototyping or updated easily to create completely unique outputs.
There are 17 elements like:
which are well organized, labeled & comes with various color variations to choose from.
Elements are offered in two ways: a single PSD file that contains all of them & PSD files for every object.
Free icons are great resources for web designers as quality ones help creating beautiful outputs. But they are better when they come with the source files as it is possible to edit/improve them.
Smashing Magazine is sharing Flavour Extended icon set, a set of 450+ icons, that is created by Oliver Twardowski.
Icons are in 48*48px size & PNG format. PSD source files are also included.
The set contains icons of users, folders, file formats, actions, social bookmarking services & more.
