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20 Recent Inspirational UI/UX Examples in Mobile Device. 55 Amazing Mobile App UI Designs with Ultimate User Experience | Pixack Studio • Web, Mobile, UX and UI Design Studio. Beautiful, modern Mobile app UI design is right here. In this roundup we’re sharing 55 amazing mobile app UI designs with ultimate User experience. This showcase only have professionally designed mobile apps iPhone, iPad, Android, UI Patterns. Every year mobile and tablet friendly apps built to aid both designers and web developers with their work debut in hopes to succeed in the competitive app market. However, some of today’s designers and developers tend to focus on UI design, now a day mobile UI/UX design are top trend for inspiration. Here is a list of modern and creative UI Concepts and designs which are playing a very important role in interface designing.

UI design involves a lot of creativity, inspiration and motivation along with the people-skills necessary to communicate effectively with clients. Enjoy and please share your thoughts with us: Kamere App by Zarko Cvijovic Source Login Screen UI by Kshitij Choudhary Source CamLab iPhone App by Reznik Umar Source Source Source Source Source. Untitled. 13 Innovative Mobile Commerce Apps. Mobile commerce is no longer a novelty. According to an IBM report, mobile accounted for 45 percent of all online traffic during the 2014 holiday season, and online sales from mobile devices accounted for 22.6 percent of the total.

Smartphones and tablets are having a meaningful impact on how we purchase, and some mobile commerce apps are even reshaping traditional businesses. Here is a list of innovative mobile commerce apps. Several of the apps are marketplaces or help users to discover new products. There are also some ingenious apps that redefine how we purchase daily goods and services. Spring Spring. Spring offers an Instagram-like photo feed of products to purchase, with a curated community of brands that includes luxury labels and emerging designers. Product Hunt Product Hunt. Product Hunt is an app to discover and share trending products, primarily in the technology space. Wanelo Wanelo. Wanelo (from Want, Need, Love) describes itself as a “mall on your phone.”

Raise Raise. The Hunt Wish. Introduction - Material Design - Google design guidelines. User Analysis Before Diving Into Design (Part 1) A great product experience starts with a good understanding of your users. Not only do you want to know who they are, but you want to dive deeper into their motivations, fears, mentality, and behavior. But how do we know what our users really want? We’ll take a look into the mind of users by deconstructing user personas, user stories & job stories, and user experience maps.

If you’d like to learn more, check out the free Guide to UX Design Process & Documentation. Once you have a rough idea of your product definition and how it fits into the current market, it’s time to dive into user-centric modeling. Why User Analysis is Important User analysis answers questions about end users tasks and goals so that these findings can help make decisions about development and design. Source: Agile and User Centered Design According to Smashing Magazine, user-centered analysis helps get more profitable products to market at a quicker pace. User Personas Source: UXPin User Stories & Job Stories.

User Analysis Before Diving Into Design (Part 2) In Part 1, we provided tips for user personas, user & job stories, and user experience maps. Now we’ll look at how to use three types of matrics to help you plot out user scenarios, content, and product features. If you’d like to learn more, check out the free 150-page Guide to UX Design Process & Documentation. User Task Matrix While user stories look at how your product is used and experience maps shows the start-to-finish picture, a user task matrix looks at frequency of use. Source: User Task Matrix In the above example, the task matrix describes the various methods (and their frequencies based on persona) for accomplishing the goal of booking an airline ticket. Stephanie Troeth, UX Consultant at MailChimp, takes a more connective approach to user task matrices. Source: Design for Multifaceted Users Compared to the traditional user matrix, her version is more visual and thus lets you spot patterns quickly and prioritize accordingly.

User Content Matrix Prioritized Requirements Spreadsheet. Why the Best Wireframe Style Is No Style. The 100 Greatest Free Fonts for 2014. Here we are, once again, with our now-famous selection of the top 100 free fonts for 2014. This year we have only selected fonts published or updated in late 2013 and 2014, giving you one of the most up-to-date lists around.

The majority are completely free with licenses for commercial use; the odd few available for personal use only have extended license options at a very reasonable price. The free font list comprises both entire font families and single weight downloads; either way, there is something for everyone and we think you'll love the ones we have picked out for you. Font Selection We have selected all kinds of typefaces which can be seamlessly integrated into any design: Sans Serif, Slab Serif, Rounded, Decorative, Display, Art Deco, Geometric, Futuristic, and many more besides.

Most of these typefaces have a web font kit to embed custom fonts with the @font-face rule. We have categorized the typefaces to help you browse more efficiently. Sans-Serif Typefaces Serif Typefaces. Trover widget builder. Best Practices for Accordion Interfaces in Web Design | Web Design. The word “accordion” typically conjures a mental image of your favorite polka band. Although polka music can offer a rip-snorting good time, the term is associated with something different in the realm of web design.

User interface accordions might refer to menus, widgets, or content areas which expand like the musical instrument. These interfaces have grown a lot more popular in recent years with the expansion of JavaScript and more prominently jQuery. I’d like to cover a series of examples and techniques for building accordion interfaces into any website layout. Accordions are popular because they allow developers to force large amounts of content into tiny spaces on the page. Granted these content displays also require dynamic effects for switching between page elements – so there are pros and cons to accordions.

Why use Accordion Menus? I like to think of accordions as content management tools. Not every website needs an accordion menu and you certainly won’t find them all the time. A BBC iPlayer Accessibility Case Study. Advertisement Not long after I started working at the BBC, I fielded a complaint from a screen reader user who was having trouble finding a favorite show via the BBC iPlayer’s home page1. The website had recently undergone an independent accessibility audit which indicated that, other than the odd minor issue here and there, it was reasonably accessible. I called the customer to establish what exactly the problem was, and together we navigated the home page using a screen reader.

It was at that point I realized that, while all of the traditional ingredients of an accessible page were in place — headings, WAI ARIA Landmarks2, text alternatives and so on — it wasn’t very usable for a screen reader user. The first issue was that the subnavigation was made up of only two links: “TV” and “Radio,” with links to other key areas such as “Categories,” “Channels” and “A to Z” buried further down the content order of the page, making them harder for the user to find. The Challenge UX Principles Summary. 16 delightful micro UX animations for ecommerce | Econsultancy. Simple animation, fluid transitions, dynamically changing results, micro UX… all these design elements can not only make your website easier to use but delight your visitors too.

I’ve rounded up 16 examples of great little animations from a variety of ecommerce sites, some of which are integral to providing the best user experience possible, others which merely provide a creative icing to an already tasty cake. It’s also an excuse to test my new Gif generator tool. Enjoy! Hovering your mouse over the product image reveals how it looks on a human being rather than a floating invisible body. American Apparel Hover zoom is a common feature of ecommerce, it allows the user to control exactly the area they can see and is also good for those looking on a smaller screen.

Mondo Hovering over the product lets you see the price and an ‘add to cart’ button, which would otherwise distract from the artwork. Also check out the subtle animation once the item is added to your cart. Fat Face House of Fraser. What on earth is Slippy UX design? Have you recently heard about the proliferation of the term ‘slippy UX’? I have and I must admit, I’ll hold my hands up, I only first came across it in UX Mag’s top 10 UX predictions for 2015. Is this just me? Well, I’ll also out Katie Li as well to back me up here…. Funnily enough, I wrote an article about my predictions for 2015 also because, let’s face it, we all do it in the industry – people are interested in it.

I wanted to explore a little bit more about this term, where it came from, what does it mean and will it go anywhere? What on earth is slippy UX? Well in my personal opinion, that’s exactly what it is; a term. Jake Zukowski at Frog Design, apparently, coined the term. If online we’re told to make our experiences sticky we need to question why? Figure 1. Generally it’s context dependant and that’s why Jake talks about slippy UX in cars. I would also extend this to wearable devices. In my opinion yes. Slippy UX is just a term. Feature image curtsey of Jake Zukowski.

What on earth is Slippy UX design? 15 SEO Best Practices for Structuring URLs. It's been a long time since we covered one of the most fundamental building blocks of SEO—the structure of domain names and URLs—and I think it's high time to revisit. But, an important caveat before we begin: the optimal structures and practices I'll be describing in the tips below are NOT absolutely critical on any/every page you create. This list should serve as an "it would be great if we could," not an "if we don't do things this way, the search engines will never rank us well.

" Google and Bing have come a long way and can handle a lot of technical challenges, but as always in SEO, the easier we make things for them (and for users), the better the results tend to be. #1: Whenever possible, use a single domain & subdomain It's hard to argue this given the preponderance of evidence and examples of folks moving their content from a subdomain to subfolder and seeing improved results (or, worse, moving content to a subdomain and losing traffic) . #3: Keywords in URLs: still a good thing.

A to Z of example UX docs and deliverables. Following on from my article about how to create great UX documents, I thought that it would be useful to collate some example UX documents and deliverables together. This should hopefully provide a bit of inspiration and assist when it comes to choosing the type of document(s) to produce. For each document / deliverable I’ve included examples, together with a quick outline and links to more information. The following UX documents and deliverables are covered: Content models | Empathy maps | Experience maps | Mental models | Personas | Process diagrams | Prototypes | Scenario maps | Scenarios | Sitemaps | Sketches | Storyboards | Style guides | Style tiles | System maps | Task grids | Usability reports | User journeys | User story maps | Visuals | Wireframes | Word clouds Please note that the majority of these example documents are not my own.

Content models Empathy maps Empathy maps typically (but not always) accompany personas. Experience maps Mental Models Personas Process diagrams Sitemaps. Designing For The Elderly: Ways Older People Use Digital Technology Differently. If you work in the tech industry, it’s easy to forget that older people exist. Most tech workers are really young1, so it’s easy to see why most technology is designed for young people. But consider this: By 2030, around 19% of people in the US will be over 652. Doesn’t sound like a lot? Well it happens to be about the same number of people in the US who own an iPhone today. Which of these two groups do you think Silicon Valley spends more time thinking about? This seems unfortunate when you consider all of the things technology has to offer older people. CNA – Speaking Exchange (watch the video on YoutTube4) While the ageing process is different for everyone, we all go through some fundamental changes.

But ageing makes some things harder as well, and one of those things is using technology. (How old is old? Vision And Hearing From the age of about 40, the lens of the eye begins to harden, causing a condition called “presbyopia.” Key lessons: Motor Control Device Use Relationships Life Stage. Wireframing & Prototyping: The Past, Present, and Future. Jerry Cao is a content strategist at UXPin — the wireframing and prototyping app — where he develops in-app and online content. To learn the methods, tools, and processes of UX prototyping, download the free Ultimate Guide to Prototyping.

Knowing the origins of wireframing and prototyping will help you put everything into a historical context, allowing you to comprehend the practice and predict how it will evolve in the future. This piece will be somewhat of a modern history lesson, covering digital UX design in its past, present, and future. Present: The Current State of Design At the moment, two of the most popular design methodologies are Lean UX and Agile UX. Source: Lean UX vs. The old way of doing things — the Waterfall method where designers hand off a fully fleshed-out comp to a developer and say “good luck” — is coming to an end.

In the vacuum left by the Waterfall method, two alternative schools of thought are filling its place. 1. Source: The Visual Agile Manifesto 2. 3. 18 excellent features of Argos’s mobile app | Econsultancy. Argos has been named one of the top multichannel UK retailers thanks to its customer-focused mobile app. Placing a particular emphasis on creating an easy, joined-up customer experience has led to this app becoming one of the most popular downloads in Q4 2014. In a new report from App Annie and Kantar Retail, and covered by InternetRetailing it was found that UK retailers in general were at the forefront of uniting online and offline retail with features such as ‘Click and Collect’, unlockable content and barcode scanners. Let’s take a look at the Argos app and see what features make it so popular.

Keeping it local When you download the app, Argos immediately asks you to set your location (which it does find automatically using geolocation) and it presents this localized map every time you fire up the app. Consistency of CTAs There's only one colour used for the most important CTAs throughout the site and the blue is never repeated in other site elements. Saved searches Swipability Large text. Car Dashboard UI Collection. So what’s going on in in-car dashboard design now. I’m not going to touch infotainment system UI in this article as Teehan+Lax did it before. Instead I’ll focus on instrument panels or clusters usually hidden behind steering wheels that have to be a) informative, b) easy to read, c) well visible under any conditions (e.g. sunny), c) attractive and they shouldn’t distract (e.g. blinding at night). I’ve seen many beautiful analogue dashboards from various car manufacturers for years. But time goes on and the industry needs to evolve, so nearly every auto maker started adding virtual LCD based dashboards to their cars by variety of reasons such as ability to customise layout and design, ability to switch between different modes, so driver may decide what is important personally for him at the moment, ability to add new functionality and fixing bugs by firmware upgrade and just because it’s modern and cool.

How to test the usability of prototypes like a pro. Log In. The Art of Questioning as a UX Skill. Atomic Is The Missing Interface Design Tool In Your Browser. Objectified - Gary Hustwit. Why the modern world is bad for your brain | Science. Romashamin/Size-Marks-PS. 40 Resources Every Designer Should Know | OtherFocus. The Top UX Predictions for 2015. Web Design Trends That Will Rule 2015. Luke Wroblewski – Mobile Behavior and Design Trends Live! App design. Target a specific device. 65 useful UX design tools - WBD.

Nibbler - A Free Tool for Testing Websites. 32 Dispelled Myths About UX And Web Design. How (and When) to Design a Mood Board. Typegenius Online App Shows Designers the Best Font Match. The Urban Dictionary Of Design Slang. Redesigning The Country Selector. Image optimization — Web Fundamentals. Atomic: Interface design software for professionals. 30 Useful User Experience (UX) Tools. UX/UI Design Topics. A List of Style Guides, Brand Guidelines, and Front-End Frameworks. A to Z of example UX docs and deliverables - UX for the masses.

This Lingerie Company A/B Tests The World's Hottest Women To See Who Makes You Click "Buy" Pears. Start Building Consistent Web Interfaces | Patternry. Guerilla Research Tactics and Tools. UX 101: What is User Experience? [INFOGRAPHIC] 'The Beard Test' | How Beard Length Affects Click-Through Rate » Betabrand Blog. Screen Size Matters: Adapting Content Strategy for Multiple Devices. 30 little things I love about the new Virgin America website. Usability vs Beta Testing (The What & When)UX Sisters: A User Research Life.

Storytelling Through the Category Page. Form Usability: Validations vs Warnings. 10 of the world's best mobile commerce checkouts. 8 Ways to Stop Boring Your Email Subscribers. How to Improve Your Customers' Checkout Experience Today. 10 Content Marketing Lessons from The World's Fastest Growing Websites. A Hands-On Guide To Data-Driven Design. Guerilla Research Tactics and Tools. The Best UX Articles of September 2014. Innovation Vs Tradition : What Does The User Really Want? 15 Resources on Conversion Centered Design. The Psychology of Fonts [Infographics] - Super Dev Resources. Responsive Web Design in 2014: Stats and Trends. How to Create a User Experience MapBlink UX – User Experience Consulting.

Penguin Random House - Concept Project. Pain: The Missing Ingredient in Ecommerce. Progress Indicators Make a Slow System Less Insufferable. Image-Focused Design: Is Bigger Better? Progress Indicators Make a Slow System Less Insufferable. 15 Must-Read Guides for UX Professionals: Written or Praised by Industry Leaders.