Articles Index
Pattern Tap UI Examples
Pattern Tap is a website that provides design inspiration to user interface (UI) designers. The UI examples are submitted by the community, or contributors, and anyone can join for free.
Carbonmade Online Design Portfolios
Carbonmade is a website that allows you to build an online design portfolio. Carbonmade has a plan for a free online design portfolio, and a portfolio search that can help potential clients find your work.
Getty Images
Getty Images is a popular stock image website with a vast amount of options for all types of graphic design projects.
Shutterstock – Subscription-based Stock Photos and Illustration
Shutterstock is a subscription only stock site, offering a large collection of photos and illustrations at reasonable monthly rates.
The Behance Network
Members of the Behance Network can create online portfolios to showcase their work and attract new clients. Behance is a members-only website, but anyone can request an invitation by filling out an online form with just an email address and description of work.
Graphic Design Positions at Authentic Jobs
Authentic Jobs is a user-friendly online job site that features a wide variety of graphic design positions. The site features an outstanding live search and graphic design positions searchable by location, category and keyword.
Jobs for Graphic Designers on the 37signals Job Board
The 37signals Job Board is a well-designed site with a simple layout and an easy to use job search function. There are many listings for jobs for graphic designers from a variety of different companies and areas of the industry.
Find Work in Graphic Design on the Behance Network Job List
The Behance Network Job List is an excellent resource for those looking for work in graphic design. There are numerous and varied fields within the industry to choose from.
TeuxDeux - Free To-Do List Software
TeuxDeux is free to-do list software accessed through your web browser. The simple, user-friendly to do list app allows you to create a to-do list calendar and save to-do items for later.
Billable Invoice Creator
Billable is a free online invoice creator with a free invoice template. The easy to use, one page app allows you to create an invoice online and then print it or save it as a PDF.
Photoshop Etiquette Manifesto for Web Designers
When delivering Photoshop files to fellow designers, web developers, printers and others it is important to leave them with something manageable. Photoshop files can easily get out of hand with dozens (or more) layers without names, no folder organization, and confusing file names. Ever have a file named along the lines of design_new_new_final.psd? Fix those Photoshop habits and learn good manners with the Photoshop Etiquette Manifesto.
Dribbble Graphic Design Gallery
Dribbble (yes, there are three b's) is an invite-only design gallery that takes a Twitter approach to showcasing work. Rather than limit by characters, 120,000 pixels (that's 400 × 300 pixels or less) are allowed in each post. The idea here is for designers to share their work-in-progress, only revealing a small portion of it before it's public.
DesignModo
DesignModo is a website filled with graphic design inspiration and ideas. With topics ranging from freebies to coding to inspiration, DesignModo has quickly built up a large archive of design articles in a relatively short period of time.
Instagram for iPhone
Instagram is a free photo sharing app for the iPhone that allows you to take photos, transform them with a variety of filters, and easily share them on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and other social networking sites.
The Noun Project
The Noun Project is a website created to build a free collection of symbols. These free icons are useful for all types of design projects including websites, user interfaces and print design.
Job Listings and Articles for Freelancers from FreelanceSwitch
FreelanceSwitch is an excellent online resource for all kinds of freelancers, with a blog full of articles and advice, a freelancers directory, job board, forum and other resources.
Sortfolio Web Designers Directory
Sortfolio is a web designers directory created by 37signals. Web designers can add themselves or their companies to the directory, and those looking for a designer can sort by city and budget.
Lovely Package - Package Design Blog
Lovely Package is a website devoted to beautiful package design. The site takes a simple, blog style approach to presenting a large selection of package designs.
MockFlow Review - Web-Based Mockup and Wireframe Software
MockFlow is web-based software for creating mockups and wireframes. The application allows users to create mockups and wireframes and collaborate with others within a password-protected online account.
Web-Based Feedback and Collaboration with Notable
Notable is an excellent web-based application for providing and sharing feedback on website designs, code and content. Through a simple, clean interface, users can capture web pages, take notes on specific areas of the design or code, and collaborate with their team or clients.
Color Scheme Generator
The Color Scheme Generator is an online tool that helps you create color sets for design projects.
Create Color Palettes with Kuler by Adobe
Kuler by Adobe is a great tool for creating color palettes and viewing color palettes created by others. Accessed through a browser, Kuler allows you to easily edit color palettes and save them for use in Adobe applications such as Photoshop or Illustrator.
Review of iPhone Twitter App Tweetie
Tweetie for the iPhone, by atebits, is an extremely user-friendly and feature-rich Twitter app for managing your Twitter accounts. Now in version 2, I found this release to be faster and even easier to use than version 1, maintaining its status as one of the best Twitter applications for the iPhone.
Identify Fonts with Free iPhone App What the Font
What the Font is a free iPhone application that identifies typefaces from photos. A companion to the MyFonts website with the same title, What the Font is an extremely intuitive and clever app that is a great tool for designers on the go.
Tweetie Review - Twitter Software for the Mac
Tweetie for the Mac is a great Twitter application that keeps things simple, as a good Twitter app should. The best part about Tweetie, as with other Twitter software, is that it allows you to follow Twitter outside of the constraints of a web browser. It also improves the interface for direct messaging and makes shortening URLs and attaching photos easy.