Tuesday 14 July 2015

The 25 best Facebook pages for designers and developers

Credit: Ian Ryde

Recently, we asked you what the best Facebook pages are for designers and developers were, and so we put together a list of your (and our!) favourites.

All the pages below are packed with tips, advice and inspiration for designers and developers…if there’re any on here you haven’t liked yet, now’s the time.

Skillshare

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Skillshare is a great place to go to find great upcoming courses for learning new skills and enhancing your career prospects. With Skillshare, you can find some amazing online courses, meaning that you don’t have to be local to class to benefit from it. You can also keep up to date about courses in your area if you prefer good old fashioned classroom learning!

Appiness World

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Appiness are a creative agency specialising in mobile applications and web presence strategy.  Their Facebook page is full of inspiring stories and hot topics.

Tripwire Magazine

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Tripwire Magazine has daily free tips and info for designers and developers, their Facebook page is choc-full of links to free resources, advice and other cool stuff.

Digital Buzz

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The Facebook page for Digital Buzz helps to round-up the latest and most creative digital marketing campaigns, ideas, technology, research and more, as well as plenty of humour thrown in for good measure.

Brusheezy

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Brusheezy is a great place to share free Photoshop brushes and other Photoshop resources. Their Facebook page has some great deals, tools and tips for any Photoshop user.

Wptuts+

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Wptuts+ publishes the finest WordPress tutorials for lovers of the CMS, from beginners to adavanced users. Their Facebook page is a great way to keep in touch with the latest tutorials from the WordPress community.

Hong Kiat

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Hong Kiat’s Facebook page is an extension of the well known design and developer blog, offering tonnes of free resources and guides to their readers.

Creative Market

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A brilliant marketplace for design resources like icons, fonts, brushes and much more.

Onextrapixel

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Another well known digital magazine, OnextraPixel’s Facebook page compiles great deals, tutorials and hints for web professionals.

Pixels Daily

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Another great resource goldmine for designers and developers.

Webmaster Deals

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Webmaster Deals feature the latest hot deals for webmasters, and their Facebook page allows them to rapidly bring them to those who have clicked “like”.

Facebook Studio

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Facebook Studio provides inspiration by celebrating the best marketing projects on Facebook.

Facebook Marketing UK

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Another great place for marketers to go for ideas, news and best practice for marketing your business on Facebook.

Design Shack

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Yet another awesome web design blog that shares a healthy dose of their content threough Facebook. One of the best places to go to keep up with the latest news and developments in web design.

My Donut

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My Donut acts as an online consultancy for your business with some excellent articles and advice for your business. The Donut Business is made up from a group of different areas, and their Facebook page brings them all together.

Make Tech Easier

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Make Tech easier pulls all the best tutorials and tips for improving your computer skills from all over the web, and posts them all in one easy to find place!
DesignModo
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Easily one of the most recognisable web design and development blogs on the Internet, Design Modo features some exceptional tutorials and tips for web creatives.

Ninja Crunch

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Ninja Crunch is another great blog for web creatives, providing help and advice for digital artists and showcasing some amazing work.

Venture Beat

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The lastest technology and business news straight out of Silicon Valley.

Addictive Tips

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Loads of tips, tricks, apps news and advice, especially for those working on open-source platforms such as Linux and Android but with plenty for iOS lovers as well.

Speckyboy Design Magazine

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Another one-stop shop for web design inspiration, advice, resources and all things web design.

CSS-Tricks

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The facebook page for CSS-Tricks is another way to interact with the web design community. Built by Chris Coyier, CSS-Tricks engages it’s fans with great articles and interesting debates concering the industry, as well as featuring plenty of inspiration.

Sitebeam

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Sitebeam is a fantastic tool for testing and improving your websites, their Facebook page features the very best articles and discussions they have to offer.

Sleek Media

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Sleek Media are an exceptional marketing and web design agency. Their Facebook page features some entertaining content from the world of marketing and web design which provides inspiration and a little fun for those looking to get their creative juices flowing.

Silktide

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Silktide make website testing tools to make managing your website easier. Their Facebook page is another one packed with some hilarious images alongside helpful advice.


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31 fresh flat website design reads & resources

Credit: Jenni Brown

Flat design is swiftly becoming one of the fastest growing trends in web design.

With the simplicity of Google’s and Microsoft’s latest offerings, it’s time to ditch the shadows and 3D effects and move towards bright, humble designs.

If you want to find out more about flat design and how to make it work for you, check out the following articles:

Principles of Flat Design

The Flat Design Era
Flat UI Pro
A Showcase of Flat Design Websites
30+ Best Flat Web Design Examples
Making it Work: Flat Design and Color Trends

We’ve also scoured the web for some of the more attractive flat design resources out there; take a look at our list:

200 Beautiful Flat Icons

A fantastic set of icons by Freepik and Noupe. Free to use for any kind of project.
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Freebie PSD: Flat UI Kit

Several different widgets that can be used for commercial and non-commercial purposes.
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48 Free Flat Icons

Resizable vectors for websites, apps, infographics and anything else you can think of.
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Square UI Free Kit

A great big UI kit covering everything from video players to menu items.
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20 Flat Icons (PSD)

128 x 128 icons that easily adapt to a wide range of projects.
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Plex

A set of Google-inspired icons for mobile/personal use.
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Cosmo Mini Free

Lovely 40 x 40 PNG icons available for commercial use. These are also available in vector/hi-res format for a small fee.
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Flat Apple family

Free PSDs of the Apple LED Cinema Display, MacBook Air, iMac, iPad, iPhone, and MacBook Pro.
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Flat Credit Cards

A uniform set of flat design credit cards.
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Flat Blog UI Kit PSD

This free UI kit is great for blogs.
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Flat Design Icons Set Vol1

A series of 16 lovingly crafted icons.
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Flat Design Icons Set Vol2

Sixteen more beautiful free icons for you to use.
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UI Kit

Great flat design UI kit available in both PNG and PSD.
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Free Flat Social Icons

Free downloadable flat social icons in EPS/Ai format for Illustrator.
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Flat Icon Set

Plenty of excellent ‘pay with a tweet’ icons.
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Flat Vector Social Icons

These EPS vector icons are perfect for representing your social profiles.
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Flat UI Stripe design PSD

A stripe and icon combo provided in four different colours.
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Flat UI

A practical widget set in PSD form.
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Minimal UI Kit PSD

Free for both personal and commercial use, this simple UI kit is worth downloading.
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Flat Design PSD

This layered PSD design can be easily adapted to use almost as-is on a website, or provide the skeleton of a more complex design.
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Free Web User Flat UI Kit

A huge collection of elements ranging from icons to colour swatches.
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Free Flat Design PSD Template

Complete web design template in PSD form.
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Flat UI Buttons

A small but perfectly executed set of buttons.
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1262 Icons

A huge collection of over a thousand 40 x 40 icons.
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Simple Browser PSD

A minimalist design mockup of a browser.
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