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March 20, 2012 - Design, Mobile

25 Free iOS Design Resources

Some great designers around the web have released great icons, interface PSDs, and other resources that help make designing iOS apps easier. Enjoy and make sure to thank the creator of whichever resources you use!

Templates & PSDs

Icon Template

Michael Flarup’s icon template is the best one available. Very useful Photoshop actions along with some great textures.

UIButton Pack

By default UIButtons are my least favorite element in UIKit. So I made a simple button pack to fix that.

iPad GUI PSD

iPhone GUI PSD

Free App PSD

iOS Style Popover

Free Game Art

 

Textures & Patterns

Subtle Patterns

This is my favorite patterns website around!

Tileables

Apple iOS Linen Texture

High Resolution Fabric Texture Pack

20 Repeatable Pixel Patterns

Icons

Function Icon Set

WooFunction: 178 Amazing Web Design Icons

Fugue Icons

Not necessarily in an iOS style, but it is a huge icon set that has come in handy for me many times.

FamFamFam Silk Icons

Glyphicons

Glyphish

The Noun Project

The quality and volume of icons in The Noun Project is very impressive! They are often great to get ideas of what to represent in your icon.

Pixicus Icon Set: 106 Pixel Perfect Icons

Shock iPhone Icons

 

Other

Function Brush Set: 33 Subtle Grunge Textures & Effects

42 More Subtle Grunge Textured Photoshop Brushes

iOS Design Cheat Sheet

Printable iPhone Wireframe Templates

 

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9 Responses to “25 Free iOS Design Resources”

  1. Desmond Fun

    June 11, 2012

    Honourable mentioned, http://www.iconbeast.com
    They have some very good iPhone icons for iOS developer.

    reply
  2. song zheng

    August 31, 2012

    Thanks! This is awesome

    reply
  3. Robert Fauver

    August 31, 2012

    Thanks for the roundup! Bookmarked!

    reply
  4. AK

    August 31, 2012

    All wefunction.com links are 404

    reply
  5. Martin LeBlanc

    September 1, 2012

    Great list.

    Most of the icons above are indexed on Iconfinder.com

    reply
  6. Matteo Del Vecchio

    September 24, 2012

    Great collection of resources but I would add Inventicons ;) They saved my day a lot of times!

    reply
  7. Khamp

    April 1, 2014

    Awesome man. Thanks.

    reply

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