Do you love mini icons? You can find 100 icons in PNG format in 16×16 px within Boolean Iconset. Now, Its all up to your creativity, the metaphors depicted here aren’t meant to be used as is, you can give them your own spin, like the Binocular for Search, Legos for Add-Ons/Plugins, Tree for directory tree, what have you.
This will be a user driven set, so you guys can come up with the ideas/thoughts for the expansion of this Iconset, you can contact the author directly. These icons are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.
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After the popularity of iPhone applications where (web) developers are creating so many new ones each day, it won’t be wrong to expect the same for iPad.
In order to design for the iPad easier, RawApps, a blog focused on mobile application development, is sharing a detailed and free iPad GUI Kit.
The kit is in PSD format, its canvas size is parallel to the iPad’s 768×1024px and includes layers like the keyboard, sliders, icons, the canvas, etc.
Website: http://www.rawapps.com/blog/03/ipad-gui-kit-in-psd-format-is-here/
Matt Legend Gemmell held a 6-hour workshop at NSConference in both the UK and USA recently, focusing on software design and user experience.
Predictably, an extremely popular topic was the iPad, and how to approach the design of iPad applications. He gave a 90-minute presentation on the subject to start each workshop, and he is very kind to share some of his observations of iPad Application Design.
This article is about the user interface conventions and considerations which apply to creating software for the iPad platform and touch-screen tablet devices in general. It is not a technical discussion of iPad-related APIs. This is an excellent article for designers and application developers. I am sure you will find it useful too.
Source: http://mattgemmell.com/2010/03/05/ipad-application-design
Gesturecons is a set of 50 vector gesture icons which is specially designed to be used with projects related to multi-touch interfaces.
However, they can also be used inside any application to demonstrate to users how to complete actions or prompt them to interact with an application when they approach it
They come with .PDF, .AI, & .EPS file types which is great for editing or creating derivatives of the icons provided.
NIXUS is a free icon set that has 60 high-quality icons which includes actions, charts, devices & more.
The set is suitable to be used in both web applications & designing stuff like banners or buttons considering the detail it provides.
It comes in .PNG format with 3 sizes: 32*32px, 48*48px & 64*64px.
NIXUS is totally free to be used in both free & commercial projects.
Now that Apple has officially released the iPad we want to start designing for it. While Apple’s interface builder is great, it doesn’t really allow us to create custom UI elements on the fly. That’s why Geoff Teehan created iPad GUI PSD for us.
The PSD was constructed using vectors, so it’s fully editable and scalable. You’ll notice there are a few new UI elements as compared to the iPhone interface. The workable screen design is formatted to 768—1024 so anything you design in the Photoshop file can easily be brought over to the SDK.
Download It Here!
Source: http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/2010/02/01/ipad-gui-psd/
ColorBox is a jQuery Lightbox plugin which is lightweight (9kb) & supports photos, photo groups, slideshow, ajax, inline, and iframed content.
The lightbox has a very nicely designed interface which can be improved or customized with CSS.
ColorBox is unobtrusive, every option is mentioned in the JS & requires no changes to the existing HTML.
For faster displays & slideshows, it preloads background images and, optionally, can preload upcoming images in a photo group.
The plugin comes with a bunch of settings, including transition types-speeds & opacity, for maximum customization.
Requirements: jQuery
Website: http://colorpowered.com/colorbox/
Demo: http://colorpowered.com/colorbox/core/example1/index…
LightShot is a simple & free tool which makes taking screenshots very easy.
With the click of a keyboard shortcut, a cropping interface appears where it is possible to:
- set the area of the screenshot
- make it fullscreen
- copy to clipboard
- upload to the net & get a link
- edit it on a web-based service
Most of the similar tools instantly take a screenshot of the area you selected before clicking any approve button. LightShot makes it kindly, waits for you to arrange the area, shows you the size of it & a click is required which is better to prevent wrong screenshots.
The tool can work in every computer as it comes as a Windows desktop application, a Firefox add-on & an Internet Explorer add-on.
Requirements: Windows, Firefox or Internet Explorer
vibr8bros have created Web 2.0 style good-looking free vector stickers that you will like.
Vector stickers pack come in 2 different types and with 10 colors each.
Download package for these free vector stickers includes both the EPS and PNG files.
E-mails are one of the key elements of a website/web application. They are used in contact forms, sign-ups, notifications, newsletters, etc.
It is a common experience that sometimes e-mails sent from websites go to the junk folders or never reach.
Although it is not always possible to detect the reasons for this, there are several things that we can do to minimize the risk. Here they are:
Send E-mails Through A Valid E-mail Server With Authentication
This is the most important one which you may be automatically offering all the tips below.
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