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Mobile Device Design Starter Kit
If you’re not in the business of designing for mobile devices, you will be. Mobile publishing is no longer the future, it’s the present. Yet, as you design user interfaces for mobile devices, keep in mind there’s no reason to reinvent the wheel. Each of the major platforms — Android, BlackBerry, and iOS (iPhone and iPad) — has its own well-established user interface, complete with standard button, slider, tab, menu, chrome, and other ubiquitous element sizes and styles. You’ll get to design the coolest parts of your app’s mobile interface, but the boring stuff is already done for you, making prototyping a snap. Grab the template kits below in this mobile device starter kit.
Android GUI Application Mockup PSD
Android Icon Templates Pack
BlackBerry Phone and UI Elements PSD
BlackBerry UI Guidelines (PDF Manual)
iPad GUI PSD
iPhone 4 PSD
iPhone UI Vector Elements
Palm Pre GUI PSD
Timelines
Timelines are an effective and intuitive information presentation system for chronological events. That’s why I was thrilled to stumble across Preceden, a free, Web-based timeline creator. With a few clicks you can make an interesting timeline that includes milestones, images, links, charts, and privacy controls. The timelines are interactive — just click and drag to advance or recede — and can even be printed or embedded in your website. The free account is limited to five events per timeline. If you need more, a one-time payment of $19.00 US gets you lifetime access to a Preceden Pro account, which allows unlimited timelines and events.
What can I find free for you? Want more free fonts? More Photoshop brushes? How about more online applications that do this or that for free? Tell me in the comments what you’d like to see in future installments of Free for All, and I’ll do my best bloodhound impression to track it down for you.
Please note: Free for All will often link to resources hosted on external Web sites outside of the control of CreativePro.com. At any time those Web sites may close down, change their site or permalink structures, remove content, or take other actions that may render one or more of the above links invalid. As such neither Pariah S. Burke nor CreativePro.com can guarantee the availability of the third-party resources linked to in Free for All.
This article was last modified on December 13, 2022
This article was first published on June 28, 2010
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