Hello everyone! Today we want to go over a big and notorious change in visual styles for graphical user interfaces (GUI) and web design going on right now amid several background circumstances. In a decade, computers have become more portable, and the classic PC (including its three main species: Windows, Mac and Linux based systems) ceased to be the most popular device: mobile phones and tablets came to be preferred, since today they bring enough processing power, portability and memory capacity to fully support rich applications and Internet browsing.

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Hello Shock Followers, let’s consider for a while the importance of mastering  pixel perfect design as a way of  boosting the quality of our designs and consequently marketing ourselves as great professional designers and developers, that’s what we will be discussing in this opportunity: the basic tips to achieve a clean and visually consistent product, either in icon design, application development or web design, through the implementation of pixel perfect design practices.

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Hello everyone! Just as you enjoy downloading free stuff, we enjoy giving freebies away! That’s why today we want to present this awesome and complete set of iPhone icons for you to use in your next projects, your website, your mobile apps or just to decorate your desktop! This set features pixel perfect icons, even in smaller sizes…

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Everyday we’re permanently interacting with icons, from the TV to the metro station and our mobile, icons are present everywhere as an important element that helps people interact with their surroundings without using any spoken or written language. Creating an icon is a whole science that hundreds study, from semiotics to graphic languages, understanding how to represent something and make it universally understandable is a complete learning process.

Today we want to share our experience here at Iconshock and bring you a complete handbook that will show you all the steps that creating an icon leads, from listening to the client’s needs to defining the fittest style, this article will show you how to begin and conclude an icon design process successfully.

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Icons have definitely become one of the most useful resources to implement in web design thanks to their lightweight and high communication level. Ranging from truly minimal creations to realistic and big designs that can barely be considered icons as they’re more a piece of art themselves, icons offer many different styles to satisfy all the people’s needs. On this countdown we’ve gathered the greatest icon sets that were released throughout these past twelve months (some sets were released before that period but we just could not leave them out of this list) with the only purpose of supply you a high shot of inspiration that will help you understand the true meaning of icons as powerful communication tools that should never miss in any good web design.

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Hey friends, we have just released one of the bets freebies for your social media development, A massive set of more than 50 twitter icons, with the best quality, And to make this even more impressive, they include vector sources in Adobe Illustrator, Can u beleive it? Ok, download it after the Jump

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Another great freebie from iconshock, this set contains almost all ipad UI elemments, including buttons, tabs, menus, keyboard, balloms, etc etc… very useful for designers and developers, it includes scalable and totally editable vector versions (adobe illustrator), enjoy it and spread the word twitting and stumbling

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