If you are paying attention, you will notice that the design trends and trends of recent years are constantly changing and advancing with technological innovations. The design resources and teaching videos on the Internet are increasingly rich and diverse, providing great convenience for many latecomers in the design industry. Designers are also willing to share their design experience and skills to provide help and guidance for beginners. Today’s design industry is also less mysterious.
2017 is an important year for the development of the design industry. This article will guide you to review the best web UI Kit, design video resources and designers worth following in 2017 for your learning and reference.
one The best Free Web Interface Design Kit
A well-designed Web UI Kit can help designers quickly establish the visual image and style of a website. Below I’ve compiled some of my favorite web UI kits of 2017.
1. Error Illustrations
Price: Free
Source: Dribbble
Tools: Sketch App, Photoshop
Features: Flat design
Error Illustrations is a flat web UI Kit designed with Sketch and Photoshop. The whole design is simple, modern and detailed. The UI Kit supports custom UI interactions. You can use Mockplus, a prototyping tool that supports Sketch import, to import Sketch files, take advantage of existing UI elements, and add dynamic interactions to make your web pages more interesting. All illustrations are created using vector shapes and are 100% customizable. You can change the color and size to suit your requirements.
2. Landing Page Free UI Kit
Price: Free
Source: Dribbble
Tools: Photoshop PSD & Sketch App
Features: Rich UI components
If you’re still struggling with Landing page design and trying to figure out how to retain users on your Landing page, this free Landing Page UI Kit can be very useful and contains more than 80 colorful components. A large number of UI components help increase the speed of your web creation, available in Sketch and Photoshop.
3. Dashboard UI Kit Update
Price: $35
Source: Dribbble
Tools: PS, Sketch App, Marvelapp
Features: Complete UI Kit design process
Created with Sketch and Marvelapp, the UI Kit contains a total of 34 new files and 15 screens of black and white UI elements, including tables, graphics, buttons, text styles, and more. Every step of the design process is carefully presented, including the overall introduction, prototyping, screen display and all design elements. It’s not a free UI kit, but it’s very useful for people who really want to learn how to design.
4. Web Gradients Logotype
Price: Free
Source: Dribbble
Tools: Photoshop PSD & Sketch App
Features: CSS code
WebGradients has a collection of over 700,000 gradients and is arguably the most useful gradient-picking tool available. Each project is prepared with CSS code, a Sketch/PSD package and a high resolution PNG image.
5. Google Inbox UI Kit
Price: Free
Source: Dribbble
Tools: Sketch App
Google Inbox UI Kit. This “template” is always available for designers who want to learn the basics of Sketch. The purpose of designers is to communicate more information, not to make money.
two The best design video resource
When faced with a lengthy UI/UX design article or tutorial on the Web, it is inevitable that the content is too long and can not grasp the essentials in time. So I think that’s why online design tutorial videos can quickly gain popularity. Video teaching is not only more vivid and interesting, but also helps us retain and remember information better.
1. Angga Risky
Fan: 16 k
Angga Risky is an Indonesian UI/UX designer and developer who currently has 16K subscribers. His channel includes web design, UI design, design tools tutorials, and other design-related tutorials. If you need source code, tutorials, designs, etc., you can also contact the bloggers directly by email.
2. UX Mastery
Fan: 31 k
UX Mastery has over 1 million channel views. These videos feature story-telling animation delivery modes that make it easy for viewers to master design skills and understand design ideas. It is a great place to seek knowledge of user experience.
3. Laith Wallace
Fan: 8.5 k
Laith Wallace is a user experience designer and brand strategy consultant who posts weekly videos focusing on advice, tool presentations and encouragement for students interested in user experience/user interface design, small businesses and people who want to work in the user experience design industry. To help them understand their users better.
“I believe you can ‘improve your life with creative ideas.'”
4.Mike Locke
Fan: 68 k
Mike Locke is a mature UI/UX designer and YouTuber. He defines senior UI/UX designers as being proficient in UI design, user experience, usability, interaction design, information architecture, research and analysis, XHTML/CSS, and strategy and planning. He is also happy to share his passion for user experience, giving his channel advice, motivation and inspiration. It currently has more than 200 videos and nearly 6 million views.
5. Sarah Doody
Fan: 6 k
Sarah Doody is a user experience designer and entrepreneur who publishes a weekly user experience newsletter called “The UX Notebook” and runs online user experience classes. Her goal is to help people learn how to think like designers.
3. Designer worth following
Following the best designers is also a quick way to get the latest design news and cutting-edge design information. Here are the designers to watch for 2017, compiled by Mockplus.
1. Scott Jenson @scottjenson
Scott Jenson is one of the leading UX influencers and has held a variety of user experience positions at Google, such as product strategy and Mobile UX Manager. He also founded several companies and worked as a UI designer at Apple Computer.
2. Johanna Kollman @johannakoll
Johanna has over 10 years of user experience in product management, user research, user experience design and service design. She has helped companies large and small improve the user experience.
3. Julie Zhuo @joulee
I worked as a product designer at Facebook for 10 years, where I was responsible for the core experience design of Facebook’s News Feed, content, navigation, and mobile, and now I’m VP of Design. If you want to read fresh user experience content, you can search the web for Julie’s posts. She writes about the user experience every two weeks.
4. Jared Spool @jmspool
Jared Spool has over 30 years of experience in constantly working to improve the user experience. In addition to Dr. Leslie Jensen-Inman, he recently founded a school in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to prepare UX designers in the industry.
5. Don Norman @jnd1er
Arguably one of the most sought-after user experience designers, Don Norman works at IDEO, the Nielsen Norman Group, and ucSF, among others. He is also a well-known American author in the field of industrial design and interactive design with his book Design & Everyday Life, and was named one of the most influential designers of the century by Business Week magazine.
conclusion
2017 May be coming to an end, but great design resources aren’t going out of style. Mockplus’s best web UI Kit of 2017, design video resources, and noteworthy UI/UX design influencers will continue to provide design inspiration, inspiration, design information, and cutting edge design trends in 2018. Look back on 2017 and look forward to 2018. We look forward to the opportunities and challenges facing the design industry.