Every year we see the web design world shifts. New design idea coming up and quickly adopted by the trendy designers over the world. Besides that, we also see some approach that were experimental back then, getting matured this year. In this post, I’m going share with you some design patterns that are trending this year.
I categorized this years trend into 7 main categories from the famous flat design to video as background. Continue reading to find out all of them.
I believe as a modern designer, be it graphic, web or hybrid, need to get inspired by great designs from time to time, in order to keep themselves resourceful and fuelled with fresh ideas. There are a lot of good sites out there to serve these purposes but today, I’m going to introduce a couple more websites that you can get not only inspiration, but thoughts and personal development as well.
Well, as a designer with several years of experience, I do feel that when you are into the design industry for couple of years, and sometimes you just want to take a step back and look at the design at a different perspective. One good way to spark this is to actually read what other people think of certain thing.
I had been working on an app called “Animata!” for a year plus now and finally it has been released on iTunes App Store. In this app, I handled the user interface and also taking care of the app’s experience design. In this post, I will talk about the roadmap of the object animator, which is the core function of the app.
When the developer Ting approached me with the idea and prototype design of the app, I find it is a very interesting app and is very unique, because there are not much animator apps on the market that can do such animation with unlimited animation possibilities. But there is one problem: the prototype of the object animator is extremely difficult to use.
Today I stumbled upon these three beautiful fonts, created by Yosuke Masaki, a young font designer, illustrator and web designer from Osaka Japan. These fonts are high quality and with very strong art sense. You can actually download the fonts for free and can be used in both personal and commercial projects!
Please continue to read to find out these three fonts!
We all talked about the good user interface produces good user experience. It is indeed important to have good looking, functional and intuitive interface that helped the users to achieve certain task and making their life easier and enriched. But good user experience and interface is not just about beautiful static graphics.
Animations.. and transitions are also the vital part of producing good interface, not only it makes the interfaces more interesting, it will also creates wonderful experience! In this post, I’m going to show you three websites that showcase the good examples of animated user interfaces.
Japan is a place where art and design is deeply fused with everyday life. From the traditional art to the modern art, illustration, graphic design and many other medium, you can find creativity breathing at a lively pace in Japan. I strongly felt that when I was in Tokyo 4 years ago and attended two art events that were flooded with people.
Japanese art and design has its unique identity, but with the imagination from different artists, the great diversity can be spotted too. Well, it’s kind of hard to find information on this topic but today, I will introduce 5 dedicated website where you can find and read about Japanese art and design. Please continue reading to find out more.
Today, I stumbled upon this cool new website Unsplash, where you can download high quality photos for free for whatever purpose you want. According to the site owner, the website will feature 10 news images every 10 days.
As time of writing, it has two sets of image, one is the natural scenery, another is the photos with Apple devices. I’m really looking forward to the future photo set releases, and I think it will be useful for everyone. Kudos to the creator and the contributors!
So Apple just announced the latest iOS named iOS7 that features a complete new design of the user interface and icon designs. Fast thinking designers from around the world already coming out with GUI and icon templates to share with others, so that we all can produce accurate template and icon designs in preparation for the iOS7.
In this post, I will share with you all the links where you can find these useful templates that can be downloaded for free. Please continue reading to find out the resources!
Web Designers need to learn a lot of things to become a well-rounded designer. Ranging from brushing up skills for web designing, web designers also have to learn to keep themselves up to date with latest coding skills, and also the best practices of creating the best user experience for the users when visiting the site or using the web app.
Fortunately, there are tonnes of great resources out there to aid especially the fresh designers along the way to become an experienced designer. Below, I’m going to introduce a couple of websites that are useful that covers many of the subjects that are related to web. Read on the find out!
In the current world of design for digital space, we talk a lot about using the user interface to bring the best user experience for the users. Yes, it’s indeed very crucial. Just like the environmental design in real world, good user interface will help users to achieve goal and solving their problems. Intuitive user interface will churn out satisfied users!
In this post, I will show you some sites that you can go for best user interface and user experience inspiration fix. You will learn a lot about the tiny little details that make the difference. In my opinion, UI Patterns is the ultimate destination for inspiration and research, but continue read on to check out the other sites that you can visit.