Paul Grunt

The underlying secret to beautiful user interface design is realism: making 2D objects on your screen appear to sit in 3D space with volume, surface properties and undulations that might appear in real life. These faux 3D objects have highlights and shadows just like objects on your desk might have, and they have textures that emulate real objects from glass to sandpaper and everything in between. Designing beautiful user interfaces has more to do with the why than the how.

via Mac & iPhone Interface Design Blog by Mike Rundle — Flyosity.

130 icons for iPhone applications

Glyphish has designed and carefully optimized some great icons for use on toolbars and tab bars in iPhone apps, they’re also perfect for Android apps, websites, t-shirts, tattoos and more.

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IconEden has a holiday season deal going on.

Get ALL the icon in their catalog for only $99! This is an amazing deal that you won’t want to pass up!

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Free Icons from IconEden. :D

FRESH Add-on Free Download Gladly, we offer this free set with 59 fresh and lively icons which we, actually, decided to extract from the FRESH full package to make another free set. So despite being free, this set is as in high quality as the premium package. The Fresh Add-on contains such useful and flexibly applicable icons as application and financial symbols, and the set surely will make your web applications and softwares more atractive and adorable.

Tutorial9 is sharing a beautiful set of free mono icons that has 108 items.

Icons are in transparent PNG format, black color & 32*32px in size.

Their colors can be customized easily as a group using layer styles & applying “Color Overlay” in Photoshop. For Fireworks, simply apply “Filters → Adjust Color → Color Fill” and choose your color.

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