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MIT Licenses Free SVG Illustrations You Can Use Without Attribution

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  It’s hard to  say no to freebies, especially to those you might have use for in the future.  In true festive  spirit, illustrator  Katerina Limpitsouni  has put together ‘ unDraw ’—a collection of free SVG artworks, licensed by MIT, that you can use in personal and commercial projects without attribution.  The library  is just a few days old, and it already includes suitable resources for apps, corporate and lifestyle projects.  Right off the bat,  you can even customize the main color of the images to fit your brand identity.  “The recommended  format is SVG,” the artist suggests in a  Medium post. “It is future-proof, scalable, tiny-sized, can be customized with plain CSS and has great browser support.”  “However, Twitter,  Facebook and even  Medium  do not support SVG uploads so you can choose an optimized PNG which is also generated with your preferred color!” ...
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Save up to 30% of mobile data Google’s Datally app

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Google’s newest app for emerging markets is a service that helps control data usage on a smartphone and get more for your top-up credit. Datally, which is  available for Android devices  worldwide from today, applies granular control to enable a user to monitor use of data on their phone and cut data usage on any app as they please. The app design is simple and it appears to be effective. A pilot test in the Philippines gained 500,000 users who typically saved 30 percent of their data plan using the app. That makes particular sense in emerging markets like India, where the app is primarily focused, and Southeast Asia, where it was trialled, since most smartphone owners have prepaid SIM cards which take them offline when the credit is spent. Beyond helping cut out data-heavy apps when a user wants to focus on a different service or app, Datally also provides an update on how much data each app is consuming — Google calls this a ‘speedometer for data...
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An interview with Johny Vino, #1 UpLabs designer

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As UI design gets more interactive, new skills and faces emerge to give us a lesson on how to get animations and movement right when creating delightful screens for rather little devices. To understand how to achieve these small but effective moments of user satisfaction, we’ve talked with  Johny Vino , one of UpLab’s masters when it comes to sleek animations. If you’ve been around UpLabs for a while, Johny Vino’s name won’t sound new to you. He’s been constantly delivering amazing UI designs since he joined the community. His work is extremely popular:  he’s finished #1 on UpLabs 120 times  (to date!) and he’s ranked as the  #1 designer among the 200.000+ amazing designers contributing daily. You can check his fantastic stats and medals on his profile! Impressive numbers aside, we wanted to explore together with Johny his day to day life and how he keeps his workflow and productivity always high. He agreed to an extensive interview with us and we couldn’t be...
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