My Favorite UI Resources for Frontend Developers

The free tools and assets your frontend deserves

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As both a developer and a user, I know firsthand that how an application looks can make or break the experience it provides. While a clean UI can create the illusion of a well-built product, even if it’s coming apart at the seams behind the scenes, a solid application with a shabby UI can unfairly give the opposite impression and drive users away.

And while not all developers are equally gifted when it comes to styling our apps, there nevertheless exist today the means to make them, at the very least, half-decent to look at. In this post, I’ll be sharing some of the resources I’ve bookmarked over the years that have come in handy on numerous projects.

Icons

Icons are an easy way to take a design from basic to eye-catching. And perhaps more so than anything else on this list, great icons can be acquired from many sources. Here’s a rundown of mine.

Icons8

Icons8 provides a large selection of free icons in 36 different styles. While registration is required to download any icons, you only need to pay if you’d like to subscribe to one of their plans.

• Collection size: Over 173,000 free icons