Polya is a free font inspired by low-poly shapes, best suitable for headlines and big titles. Designed and released by Adrien Coquet.
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Polya free font
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Polya free font
Polya is a free font inspired by low-poly shapes, best suitable for headlines and big titles. Designed and released by Adrien Coquet.
The post Polya free font appeared first on Freebiesbug.
Polya free font
Polya free font
Polya is a free font inspired by low-poly shapes, best suitable for headlines and big titles. Designed and released by Adrien Coquet.
The post Polya free font appeared first on Freebiesbug.
Polya free font
Simple And Gorgeous Android Wear Watch Faces
With the release of the first Android Wear watches, many developers have started releasing apps that work with the wearable. Along with apps that provide different sets of functionality to the device, developers have released watch faces that allows users to customize the look of their wearable.
In this list, we pick our favorite and best looking 25 Android Wear watch faces you can get from the Play Store. Some of them just tell time while looking good doing it. Others do so in a unique fashion while some have extra functions that add to their value. Without further ado, here are 25 beautiful Android Wear watch faces.
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Binary Watch Face
Android Wear users with the ability to read binary in an instant should try out this watch face. The hours, seconds and minutes are translated into binary, which on the watch is shown as colored dots. You can change the colors of the dots, with premium features letting you display the time in decimals, for those who need a little help. [Download]
Convergence Watch Face
The new UI language for Android, Material Design, will soon be on phones with the release of Android L. For fans of the design, you can add in a watch face inspired by it with Convergence. From the paper stack feel, colorful circles and drop shadows, it’s one of the nicer looking faces you can get right now. [Download]
Chrono Watch Face For Wear
Combining the look of both an analogue and digital watch face, Chrono offers up a lot of useful information at a glance while looking slick at the same time. It even lets you get ahold of battery information of both your wearable and phone, along with the day and date in the middle. [Download]
Matrix Face For Android Wear
This watch face emulates the famous Matrix digital rain on your Android Wear device, letting you peer into the Matrix while knowing the time of day. [Download]
Timeless – Wear Watchface
A minimalists watch face that includes beautiful background photos and will transition between them over time. If you prefer it without the background, you can disable it in the settings. [Download]
Human Time Watch Face
If you want a more human readable watch that doesn’t involve numbers, download the Human Time Watch Face. Instead of numbers, the display will show the time the same way people say it, like “Nine o’clock” or half pass ten. You can customize the look of the face, from the background to the font. [Download]
Aviation Watch Face For Wear
This watch face was a contest submission for the Moto 360 watch face competition. It is based on an aircraft speed measurement instrument. [Download]
Orbital – Wear Watchface
A very simple, black and white watch face that tells time using 3 dots that represents the hands on a clock. [Download]
TextFace For Android Wear
Another human readable watch face, this time with a minimalist bent and the date of the day. [Download]
Woto Watch Face
Fans of the Moto 360 default watch face currently owning other Android Wear watches should give this a try. It will help you fantasize about owning one. And on its own, it’s a good looking watch face. [Download]
Terminal Watch Face
Tech geeks and CLI purist should consider the Terminal Watch Face, which will tell the time in a command line environment. It’s not an actual terminal so you can’t actually give commands to your Wear but it will make you look like a retro hacker. [Download]
Minimalist Wear Watch Face
True to its name, this watch face is a minimalist, analogue style clock. You can change the color of any of the elements on the clock and that’s pretty much it as far as customization goes. [Download]
Ingress Wear Watchface
Ingress players should download this watch face, as it shows the time to the next checkpoint as well as the time to the end of the current septicycle. And it looks good to boot. [Download]
DigiWatch For Android Wear
A no-fluff digital watch face for Android Wear. You can change the font, size and background color of the watch face to your taste. [Download]
9elements One Watch Face
A human readable watch face that looks like a word search puzzle. The time will highlight itself among the words. [Download]
Planets Watchface Android Wear
A watch face for the astronomy junkie, Planets will display the position and rotation of the planets in the Solar System behind an analogue clock. The data is taken from NASA so you can be pretty sure of the accuracy of the planets. [Download]
Wear LCD Watchface BETA
How about a little bit of nostalgia? 90′s kids will appreciate the Wear LCD Watchface as it is mimics the Baby-G of their era. [Download]
Weather Wear Watch Face
Not only will this beautiful watch face tell you the time, it can also keep you up-to-date with the weather conditions in your area. [Download]
Chron Watchface
A great, futuristic looking watch face that looks like something out of Tron. If the colors aren’t your style, you can change them to something that’s less neon. [Download]
12Hours Wear
An Android Wear version of the phone widget, 12Hours will sync up with your calender and represent them on your Wear as time blocks. [Download]
Speeds Watch Face
Emulating the aesthetics of a sports watch, this watch face even includes a speedometer for use when running and cycling. [Download]
Watch Face For Wear – Square
A simple watch face that is mean to to give your Wear a more sleek and classical look. [Download]
Just A Minute: Wear Watch Face
This watch face shows you how many minutes are left within an hour. Perfect for those who like to keep track of time right down to the minute. [Download]
Wear Watch Faces
A collection of great looking watch faces in one app, this one having 4 to choose from. My favorite has to be “Back to the Watch”, which gives you a watch face inspired by Back to the Future. Download it to see what other faces it has to offer. [Download]
Android Wear Beautiful Watches
Another collection of great looking watch faces, this time 10 of them in the package. They range from analogue, digital to human readable but all of them look well made and gorgeous. [Download]
Simple And Gorgeous Android Wear Watch Faces
Annoying Web Design Trends That You Should Avoid (Or Do In Moderation)
People love to follow trends. And there is nothing bad about that. In fact, in order to be “cool” following trends is a must. This is very important for web designers in order to keep up with the growing competition. But when it comes to following trends, web designers sometimes tend to overthink or overlook some of the most important details, especially for usability.
In this post, we’re going to try and point out some of the more “annoying” things of current design trends. When you understand what makes them annoying, you’ll be able to avoid doing them for yourself.
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Infinite Scroll With Footer Content
Infinite loading is cool and in many cases people actually love the smoothness of it. Thanks to Pinterest, infinite scrolling is still hot up till now. The problem happens when a website scrolls automatically and it has footer content that gets pushed to the bottom all the time.
Here’s the perfect example of infinite scroll and footer combo.
DVF.com uses infinite scrolling and they have their footer, well, at the bottom. I tried scrolling to catch up with the footer but the page just kept on extending.
This is not just annoying, this is a usability issue that needs to be addressed. Something that Facebook managed to solve quite easily. But when the infinite scroll was introduced to the site, they also had this problem.
(Image Source: Zachstronaut.com)
Parallax Websites Galore
Parallax websites are okay, and to a degree they are really pleasing to the eyes. These kind of websites used to be gems because of how rare and perfect they appeared to the regular user. Right now though it’s everywhere. The beauty in rarity is now dead, and even web design blogs are shunning parallax tutorials nowadays.
Also, there is a slight misconception about parallax websites. There are people who think that a single page website that scrolls is considered a parallax site. This is wrong. Parallax websites display depth by having layers while regular single page websites don’t have the illusion of depth.
Read Also: 15 Examples Of Scrolling Done Right In Website Designs
Now, parallax websites are great for introducing a product or a service, something that doesn’t need lots of text but a fancy presentation would be of help. The problem happens when parallax websites are used to replace regular websites with lots of content. Instead of separating them on different pages, they are all loaded up in one single page.
Another issue with the overuse and misuse of parallax websites, including regular single page websites, is when they get to the point where you need to scroll down for several seconds just to reach the bottom.
First, it can be tricky with browsing history. Secondly, these websites tend to be heavy in terms of loading the files. Which users with slow internet connection would definitely despise and most likely never visit again. But overall, when done right, parallax websites is still capable of captivating people’s heart.
Floating Elements
There seem to be a big fascination when it comes to floating elements in a website. Floating menu bars that stick around even after the users have scrolled down to the footer, floating social media icons that clearly begs to be clicked, and floating sidebar advertisements. This happens both on desktop and mobile websites.
Here are a couple of reasons why this is bad:
- People who have small screens can’t fully see the content available.
- It’s obnoxious.
- Design-wise, they don’t look good at all.
Take a look at the screenshot above. It’s my website and I hate 2 things about it. First is whenever I log in on my dashboard and visit the front page, the admin bar is always there to cover the links and search bar. Second is the menu bar itself that scrolls with the page. You can probably understand my frustration with this.
Here’s an example for mobile applications. It floats and when it’s closed, it appears after a few seconds (not minutes).
Read Also: Mobile Web Design: 10 Tips To Better Usability
Popups and Splash Pages
Splash pages are ancient. Popups are evil. But those that don’t provide value are basically the heralds of darkness (see screenshot below). And when I say no value, I mean popups or splash pages that exist solely to display a third-party advertisement or to solicit for Facebook likes and Twitter followers.
Splash pages are a thing of history and they should not be used at all. I’m not even sure why Forbes still clings to such a crude practice.
Popups are a necessary evil. And they work well. But people hate them. So, why do people keep on falling for these popups? Simple: it’s because they offer value. A free ebook, a discount coupon, great information that they will get when they sign up for a newsletter, and similar things.
My point here is as much as possible, try to avoid popups. However, if you can’t avoid popups because you have a product to promote, at least have the decency to offer something in return for people’s time (or email address).
Distracting Background
In every art form, beginners and experts alike love to tell everyone to always keep it simple, stupid! And rightly so, if the purpose of the website you are designing is to provide information, then the focus should be on the content, not on the background.
Read Also: 5 Tips To Simplify Your Web Design
Here is an example of a website with a great fullscreen background.
If you head to the website itself, you will see that it employs several large images as a background. And it’s fantastically applied! The reason? The images used here are not placed there as a mere background, but as a means to direct people’s attention, to give visual cues on what really matters.
What do you think about the website shown above. Do you think it’s distracting?
Conclusion
It’s either by necessity or passion that the things above are born, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. It only becomes “wrong” when they are used excessively or of without thought for the users.
Remember, designing is all about making people comfortable and to help them use your website with great ease, not to make them feel frustrated.
Annoying Web Design Trends That You Should Avoid (Or Do In Moderation)
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