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How's it going, people? Our radars have been working this first month of the year and they've picked up some of the coolest new releases in the web design and development worlds. We're bringing you icons, coding tools, mockups and some other freebies you better discover yourself. Go ahead and enjoy the show!
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How’s it going, people? Our radars have been working this first month of the year and they’ve picked up some of the coolest new releases in the web design and development worlds. We’re bringing you icons, coding tools, mockups and some other freebies you better discover yourself. Go ahead and enjoy the show!

Vintage Design Kit

This freebie contains six different logo designs, twelve icons and a brush file for Photoshop; all in an old school style to give your projects a quirky image.

Vintage Design Kit

Real Photo Identity Mockup

A mockup based on real pictures but separating all objects and shadows into layers, editable with Photoshop.

Real Photo Identity Mockup

Magazine and Cover Mockups

Check out this bundle containing a few magazine mockups for both front and back cover, as well as the open magazine. Available in PSD format.

Magazine and Cover Mockups

Vintage Branding Design Pack

A free series of logos, frames and mockups with an old school feel to give your business image a memorable presentation.

Vintage Branding Design Pack

Apple Watch PSD Mockups

The Apple Watch release is right around the corner, make sure your apps are presentation-ready with this colorful set of mockups.

Apple Watch PSD Mockups

Material Preloader

A pretty jQuery plugin for recreating the colorful preloader seen on various Google products. Look at the bar on top of the page to see what it’s all about.

Material Preloader

Voice Elements

A neat set of components that make use of the Web speech API in order to synthesize voice (text to speech) into a cool robotic character.

Voice Elements

Enyo: JavaScript Application Framework Test

This free tool allows you to develop HTML5 apps and run them on a variety of devices including PCs, Smart TVs and mobile devices.

Enyo: JavaScript Application Framework Test

Brimir Open Source Ticket Manager

A great tool for those who have heavy customer support load. Manage your tickets with multiple agents, keeping track of all interactions.

Brimir Open Source Ticket Manager

Riot UI Library

A user interface library, similar to ‘React’ but bringing its own set of innovations to the table.

Riot UI Library

Vivus.js: SVG Animations

A neat JavaScript class that allows you to animate SVGs, giving the impression of being drawn. You can customize how they behave to better suit your requirements.

Vivus.js: SVG Animations

Material Design Icons with Bounds

The classic set of material design icons, editable with Sketch. They include a bounding grid that can be easily removed.

Material Design Icons with Bounds

100 Stroke Icons

A free set of minimal outline icons provided in AI, EPS and PDF formats.

100 Stroke Icons

Icon Sets Pack

This post provides a showcase of various icons designed by Michał Kulesza, as well as a free download at the end.

Icon Sets Pack

Flat Text Icons

A collection of modern-looking icons displaying all sorts of writing and stationery related items.

Flat Text Icons

Cactus for Mac: A Better Workflow for Hand Coding Websites

A great tool for developing and publishing websites, available exclusively for Mac.

Cactus for Mac: A Better Workflow for Hand Coding Websites

Screen Sizes

A gigantic collection of info displaying screen sizes, operative systems, pixel density and other facts from various smartphones, tablets, desktops and laptops.

Screen Sizes

Hyhyhy: Full Screen Presentations

Make full screen HTML5 presentations that can be controlled with keyboard and touch commands.

Hyhyhy: Full Screen Presentations

Charted

Make charts automatically by entering the link for a CSV file or Google Spreadsheet. Very useful for displaying the info in visual form.

Charted

Poor Man’s Styleguide: A Frontend Styleguide for the Pragmatic

A bit of a cheat sheet including all sorts of elements you can paste into your CMS.

Poor Man's Styleguide: A Frontend Styleguide for the Pragmatic

Flakes: Admin UI and Template Framework

A framework that serves as a great starting point for the creation of internal business applications.

Flakes: Admin UI and Template Framework

How to Increase Conversion Rate by 1000%

This article from the Ghost blogging platform shows how they managed to increase their ”conversion to Pro” rate in 1000%

How to Increase Conversion Rate by 1000%

The Best Plugins for Sublime Text

A collection of very useful plugins for the Sublime text editor. They will help you read the code better, autocomplete and collaborate with other devs, among other things.

The Best Plugins for Sublime Text

The Future of NoSQL

An article talking about how NoSQL databases came about, what role they play in today’s development world and where they are headed from here.

The Future of NoSQL

Juan Pablo Sarmiento

Juan Sarmiento is the founder of shock family, as a group of talented designers and developers, the Shock Family is constantly looking forward to creating lots of quality resources having keeping track of the latest web standards and design trends. We are the team behind web tools and resources like Themeshock (wp themes), Designshock (design resources), iconshock (stock icons) and the WPThemegenerator (wo theme builder).

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