Useful Resources

A collection of useful resources and items the I use

Design

Usability Guidelines designing native apps for platforms that you don't use everyday is difficult if you want to be as consistent ans possible with the native user experience. This page lists the official documents published by all major platforms that you'll ever develop on and some you probably shouldn't. Thanks to @iamhepto for the link.

Skeleton Responsive CSS system, a nice boilerplate for starting responsive designs. Based on the 960 Grid System, comes with good typography, forms and buttons.

Subtle Patterns does what it says on the tin. A site with subtle patterns. They are all free and comes with the Photoshop patterns to download too.

TWG Retina Icon Set are a set of free icons for iOS or web projects. 147 very useful icons in there for all your projects

Business

FreeAgent Central is a great web app. It's hard to find a UK centric accounts package for Freelancers and small business that works well and is good looking. FreeAgent Central ticks all those boxes. Suitable for sole traders to Limited companies use This link for 10% off the duration of your subscription.

Blog Advertising is hard to get right, yet there is potential to earn money from it. I wrote this article to look at how to advertise in ways that will make you money and still look good.