The role and purpose of icons is user interaction is very important these days. Icons can enhance the user experience and user friendly icons are really appreciative but they should be unique and easy to understand. There are so many icon websites available on the web but what we are presenting here is only high quality and web2.0 free icon packs collected from various websites ,designers galleries and blogs.

We’ve rounded up a great collection of highly detailed and beautiful free icon sets for use in web and graphic design projects.

It has been almost an year ago when i posted the 22 useful free icon packs list. Due the success and the requests for a new list of useful and free icon packs, i’ve created a new list, this time bigger and better. To save you some time(time is money) i have created this list of 50 icon packs in the categories, web application, e-commerce, sketch, mini icons, mono icons and social icons. Basically this is all you need for a new project, big or small.

Round-ups of beautiful and useful icons are almost legendary here, on Smashing Magazine. While some readers complain about the annoying “list”-style of some of our articles, we are confident that useful round-ups of relevant resources are very valuable and useful for designers. This is why over months we collect useful links and then present them in posts in the magazine. Like it or hate it, but the feedback that we get from the design community when we publish such posts is mostly positive which is why we keep doing it.

Web Apps are hitting the internet by storm. There are so many around on the internet, running on many different frameworks. I have compiled a list of the top 10 web apps for web designers in 2009. They are ranked descending, so its saving the best until last.

There are people all over the internet that are willing to give away their work for promotional purposes or because they want to spread their design talent to other people.

Yesterday I was looking for some icons for a project I am doing lately, and it's just great how DeviantART got some awesome free icons! It is a great place to find just the right icon to pimp your designs, so I've selected a few!

In the previous post we informed about 15 websites offers free stock photos. Today we represent you top 30 high-quality icon sets. These beautiful free icons were created by various artists from over the world for personal usage, as well as for commercial purposes. We strongly recommend you to read the license carefully before downloading. Hope that this collection will comes in handy for designers and developers, and will be a good inspiration sourse for graphic artists.

Clarity is the most important element of user interface design. Indeed, the whole purpose of user interface design is to enable people to interact with your system by communicating meaning and function.

Many designers strive to make their interfaces ‘intuitive’. But what does intuitive really mean? It means something that can be naturally and instinctively understood and comprehended. But how can you make something intuitive? You do it by making it ‘familiar’.

Consistent interfaces allow users to develop usage patterns — they’ll learn what the different buttons, tabs, icons and other interface elements look like and will recognize them and realize what they do in different contexts.