9 Essential Resources for User Interface Designers

The Web Design Usability Series is supported by join.me, an easy way to instantly share your screen with anyone. join.me lets you collaborate on-the-fly, put your heads together super-fast and even just show off. Designing a great user interface can be a challenge, even for the most seasoned designer. Countless factors need to be taken into consideration and the difference between a good UI and a great one often boils down to paying close attention to the smallest details. SEE ALSO: 7 Best Practices for Improving Your Website’s Usability When undertaking such an important and often complex task, it’s helpful to have some handy resources for both education and inspiration. Design Inspiration Let’s start off by taking a look at three great galleries for UI design inspiration. 1. MephoBox is a design showcase that catalogs sites with beautiful interfaces and also collections of common site elements, such as login forms, headers, pagination, and so on. 2. 3. Reading up on UI Design 4. 5. 6. 7.

Mobile UI Design Patterns: 10+ Sites for Inspiration By Jacob Gube User interface design patterns are solutions to common design challenges, such as navigating around an app, listing data or providing feedback to users. Mobile apps and sites have unique UI design requirements because, compared to their desktop counterparts, they’re used in smaller screens and, at least with today’s modern mobile devices, rely on fingers instead of a keyboard and mouse as input mechanisms. Whether you’re designing a mobile app UI for the first time or in need of specific design solutions, these mobile UI design pattern resources will surely help! 1. Mobile UI Patterns is a great site to visit to see common mobile UI design patterns such as activity feeds and notifications. 2. Inspired UI is an excellent mobile UI design pattern gallery with over 1,000 screenshots of real mobile apps. 3. lovely ui 4. This design pattern gallery is a supplement to UX designer Theresa Neil’s mobile design pattern book published by O’Reilly Media. 5. pttrns 6. 8. 9. android pttrns

30 Beautiful Landing Pages Optimized for Converting Visitors into Users Landing pages are web pages that primarily serve to convince site visitors to take an action (such as signing up for an account, buying a product, etc.) For inspiration, have a look at these 30 beautiful and well-designed landing pages. The landing pages featured in this showcase provide potential users with compelling information and calls-to-action about the featured product or service. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. Resources on Optimizing Landing Pages If you’re looking to improve the performance of your landing pages in terms of converting your site visitors into users, check out the articles listed below:

21 Beautiful Examples of Big Images in Web Design Big images can certainly create a big impact in a design, and I believe this is why more and more websites are starting to use big images to deliver nice and beautiful visuals to their viewers. Something that is good about this trend is that designers are using images combined with clean and minimal designs, layouts where images take the center stage and everything else complements it. It’s also important that when using huge images, designers optimize them the best they can to deliver a good user experience, which is great. Today we gathered some beautiful examples of websites using big images and you will see that from full screen photos to header images and more, there are several ways to incorporate images in your website. Theme Trust Seed Spot Karma Geckoboard Kyle Thacker Tiny Factory Do Kin Data Driven London Sawyer Maker Lab evoluted Cedric Marteau Escape Flight Pi’s Epic Journey Rosebud 84.Paris Soft Facade Eva Black Design Jardan kvadrat The Prince Ink About the Author Related Posts 370 shares

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