Pattern Tap: New way to discover Pattern Design

The Patterntap is a life saver for interaction designers. Find all inspirations for your next UI design right here. Patterntap showcases a huge collection of design patterns categorized under 46 different sections like Headers, Navigation, Sorting, Footers, Forms, List, Tables etc. You can register at Patterntap and add patterns to your own set which becomes an easy to store
patterns online.

Though the site has different 'name set' to identify the patterns directly. The most important feature that the Patterntrap lack, is the Search option. The missing search feature would have you wandering around the site looking for the right design pattern. Hope we get to see the search option in the future version of Patterntrap.

Webdesign Trend: Hand Drawn

"Hand drawn" is the most discussed web design trends these days. This article sums up the links and resources that could make your understand the trend and equally inspire your creativity.
"Hand-Drawn" trend pattern: This article from smashingmagazine gives the detailed analysis of what’s new about hand drawn trend, how the fonts, are handled, common usability issues, Logos, header, input fields, pre-loaders and more.

Tutorial: webdesignwall really created the momentum to this design trend with his awesome blog design. Adding to it he provided tips and tutorials in his own site for creating hand drawn web designs.

Showcase:

• smashingmagazine
• Inspiredology

Resource: Collect all your free brushes, vector, shapes, textures and fonts from the article listed below:

• designreviver
• bittbox

Tutorial9 Rocks with 99 Free Canvas, Paper, Paint, and Metal Textures

Tutorial9 has come out impressive free resource. The latest article "99 Free Free Canvas, Paper, Paint, and Metal Textures" proves to be a great collection of photoshop textures, canvas, paper etc. Most from the list are high res textures which are awsome and great resource for any designers. Chk out this link

Yahoo Stencil Kit

Yahoo has released its "Stencil Kit" as a part of Design Pattern Library. This seems to be a great idea and very useful resource to the designers. Though this may lead to yahoo biased design ideas, the standard approach to components can be a welcome idea. The stencil kit has following topics:
• Ad Units
• Calendars
• Carousels
• Charts and Tables
• UI Controls
• Form Elements
• Grids
• Menus and Buttons
• Mobile - General
• Mobile - iPhone
• Navigation and Pagination
• OS Elements
• Placeholder Text
• Screen Resolutions
• Tabs
• Windows and Containers

These are available for download in various formats (OmniGraffle, Visio (XML), PDF, PNG, SVG)
Link: Yahoo Stencil Kit

Turbomilk- Providing true stories of Creating ICONS

Turbomilk is a Russian company that does visual interface design. Thier recent redesigned website brings the real essence out to visitors. Well, we get inspired to Icons by their colors, 3d effect, details etc more than that you would recreate icons same as that. Visiting turbo milk will give you a great insight about the art of Icon Design.

The case studies pages has sketches that inspires you to create ideas for Icons. Thier latest autokadabra case study is a delight to watch. They have more case studies in their Casestudy section. Apart from this there are some really valuable tips and tricks for icon design. So get inspired with highly creative and sensible Icons from Turbomilk!

Button Devkit from Bartelme Design

Bartelme is back with this DevKit, and this time he is back with "Button Devkit". Like all his previous kit, he has provided enough scope of fun for designers in source files. Designers can improvise to make thier own version from the source files. More than the button kit I liked his previous Smiley Devkit. Its fun to play with smiley dev kit, were you will end up in lot many versions of smiley.

Above all the fun, these buttons can be used on both personal and commercial websites.

Also Check:
Smiley Devkit
Flag Button Devkit
Deep Blue Wallpaper
WP Dark Customization Kit
Wallpaper Devkit 3
Wallpaper Devkit 2
Wallpaper Devkit

New Photoshop logo from Adobe

Adobe has announced their new logo and tag line for Photoshop. On the first look it’s fresh and glossy, but I feel somehow its not relating to represent Photoshop. The critics and comments are reflecting the same. Here are few links that gives you the clear insight of Photoshop's new branding and comments:

1. Creativebits.org
   
2. Photoshopblog.net
3. Blogs.adobe.com

Finest Photoshop Tutorial at psdtut.com

Psdtut.com is an absolute Photoshop tutorial website for designers who want to keep in match with current trend from rest of world. The website is from Eden Creative Communities. The website provides quality tutorials for medium and advance photoshop users. Good design, Neat Layout and above all very useful.

Check:http://psdtuts.com/
RSS Feed: http://psdtuts.com/feed

Spry Framework for Ajax

Spry Framework is a repository of javascript library that allows the web designers to design and develop pages with enriching user experience. Basically Spry framework is easy to implement for users with the basic knowledge of Html, CSS and javascript. Spry works with all Html editors, including Dreamweaver.It can be downloded from Adobe Labs and you can start building applications. Spry is a lightweightmodel framework for adding data,interactivity & rich user experience.