The complexities of design and development in 2015 require a flexible approach. Where once large agencies hired permanent staff and fed them jobs, now small agencies, and even freelancers, build dynamic teams for each fresh challenge.

This on-the-fly approach is made possible by a core team supplementing its skills and experience when required. It’s a trend that is revitalizing the industry as the creative processes of different freelancers cross-pollinate, resulting in truly innovative design collaborations.

Hello there! Here we are again with this amazing bunch of resources for your web and graphic design projects. Come and have a scuba dive around this ocean of unique fonts, delicious icons, cool mockups and wireframes, print and web templates, powerful development and designing tools, and stacks more.

Go ahead and dive in!

15 touch gesture AI & PSD icons set

A set of 15 outline icons that represent touch screen gestures such as two-finger tap, double tap, tap and hold, pinch in, pinch out, slide up, or down among others.

I spend a lot of time sitting, because I live on the Internet. I design websites for it, I write articles for it, and I spend most of my free time on it… or on video games.

If you’re like me, then your butt is in a chair for eight to twelve hours a day, easily. Sometimes longer. We all know that’s not what the human body is designed to do. It’s been mentioned to us… a lot.

But the fact is that we’ve got to work. We’ve also got to play. If your computer is the way you do that, you’re probably going to do some sitting.

Yesterday’s Apple keynote introduced changes to a range of Apple devices, but only one new product was announced: the Apple Pencil, a stylus designed for use with the iPad Pro.

The company announced Tuesday it would be changing its iconic logo to one that "that reflects this reality and shows you when the Google magic is working for you, even on the tiniest screens," according to a statement.

Recent months have brought a lot of great stuff for designers at every skill level.

We’ve got tools for designing websites. Some of them try to create a sort of hybrid visual/code workflow, while others hide the code away altogether for the beginners.

We’ve also got prototyping tools for both apps and sites, and a couple of testing tools besides. Some are brand new. Others have been around for a little while, but have recently been updated with awesome new stuff.

Dig in! Discovery is half the fun.

Below you’ll find seven more questions that new designers may ask, along with answers. Everything from applications and workflow to finding collaborators and working with clients are covered.

1) What applications should I be using?

This question isn’t all that different to “how long is a piece of string?” There are a ton of great applications out there, with more being released all the time.

Here's what’s new for designers and developers, we’ve included lots of marketing resources, startup resources, educational tools, email tools, image resources, icons, CMSs, CSS resources, and much more. And as always, we’ve also included some awesome new free fonts!
Almost everything on the list is free, with a few high-value paid apps and tools also included. They’re sure to be useful to designers and developers, from beginners to experts.
 

Game of Thrones, based on George R.R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire book series, has captivated audiences for five seasons now, with a sixth already in production. The show might be set in a fantasy kingdom reminiscent of our own medieval period, but that doesn’t mean it can’t offer some invaluable lessons for designers.

Here are seven great things GoT can teach you about being a designer, including the business end of the design world.