Most Popular UI Kits that you can use for free
Free UI Kit layouts, because sharing is caring!
An essential skill that most designers pick up as they practice more is curating their own resource library. UI kits occupy the middle shelf in the resource library of every interface designer. When inspiration strikes, just pull out a suitable kit and unleash your creativity, saving customisation and final touches for later.
It is only a designer who understands what other designers go through. Thus, the design community’s common practice of creating and sharing UI kits is indeed a life-saver. And it is a delight to find a well-curated and sharp UI kit, that too for free!
While checking out Dribbble for inspiration, we handpicked a few UI kits. Here are the 7 popular ones which may come handy:
Divan Raj: Event Calendar iOS App UI Kit
Creating a planner application for iOS? Search no more, Divan’s UI Kit is what you need! This beautifully designed application has the perfect balance of white space and other integrated options where one can invite contacts and add attachments in the same. Divan’s been kind enough to include color codes along with a digital clock, all this only for you.
Matteo Pasuto: Fashion App for iOS
If you are aiming to create something for a fashion industry audience, check this kit out. A social and shopping fashion app in one, this kit lets you save the fashion you love, read the industry insights and information on every piece of garment and accessory, all this with the option to splurge on outfits. The color palette is refreshing and classy. This design upgrade can potentially be the next best thing happening to the fashion e-commerce.
Heima: Home Design UI
Another e-commerce application layout which takes the user through different home furniture for their spaces. Elegantly designed and the perfect use of white space giving you a perfect look of the product and a simpler way to know how long will it take to reach you.
Patryk Pustol: Planguru
A fabulous productive app UI Kit by Patryk is here to make your life easier. A well-thought-out app kit which lets you plan your day by creating to-do-lists and the most beautiful part? It has integrated prominent applications and contacts for you to co-plan your day and discuss the agenda of a group! All you need to do is to give a look and you’ll know what the day holds for you.
Tom Koszyk: Holo Music UI Kit Artist Page
Made for both the web and the mobile, this UI kit is for someone who wants to create a simple, clean and informative music application. Inspired with the layout of Spotify, this design will give the modern touch your layout will need. Future of music layouts is here!
Nimasha Perera: Elegance
Living up to its name, Elegance is a fashion e-commerce layout for both the mobile and the web. As you see the layout, it gives you a posh feeling equal to entering a fashion paradise. Use of white space gives it a premium feeling for the users and provides easy navigation. Integration of social stories and people gives it an edge to sets it apart from an e-commerce application. Sleek, chic and completely free!
Pssst.. If you are new to iOS design, we have two resources to help you get started. Check out Human Interface Guidelines and Apple UI Design Resources (Support Documentation by Apple) and introduce yourself to the design principles, visual design, and app architecture at Apple.
Xer.Lee: Cinema UI Kit
When a designer thinks of cinema layouts, it automatically induces a lot of color due to the integration of movie posters. Xer Lee gives you something very different, a minimal mobile booking layout using white spaces in abundance only to smartly integrate color. The ambiance of the layout changes according to the movie, this minute detail gives this layout a special look.
Also, A Step-by-Step Guide for Starting a New App Design Project in Sketch post is pretty informative.
Did you notice how almost all kits are made to be used with Sketch app? Sketch, a highly sophisticated yet easy-to-use tool, has graduated to become an industry standard for iOS app design.
Here’s a quick list of resources to help you design better using Sketch:
Sketch App Crash Course
Sketch Support Documentation
Design+Code book
A quick guide to creating projects in Sketch
We have shown you the way, now it’s your turn to create something great. We would love to see your designs! Tweet to us!