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

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

List of 35 professional looking corporate websites

A good collection of corporate websites are listed at Rubiqube. The collections are analyzed and are carefully handpicked websites which looks professional in all aspects of design and development and also exhibit current trends and pattern involving design of corporate websites.

Find the list here: 35 professional looking corporate websites

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Best CSS Tips, Web Trends at StylizeWeb.com

Stylizedweb the black and white blog, rolls out with clear focus in CSS,JS, and web trends. This has very interesting and useful postings that could make your life easier. My favorite posts from the site :

10 best CSS hacks
30 Best Firefox add-ons
PNG transparency issues
Vertical align div

Findings from Web Design Survey - A List Apart

A List apart has released their Findings From the Web Design Survey. The downloadable pdf gives a huge understanding about the web design and the people involved. They conducted a survey with 37 questions across the people in web design. With the data collected by this survey, they have presented their findings meaningfully in the PDF. The findings involves very interesting topics from Gender, Geographic region, Hours worked per week to most wanted topics like Salary range, Claimed skills etc.

Also Check: 2007surveyresults.pdf