Inspiration

5 sites for your UI/UX inspiration fix

5 sites for your UI/UX inspiration fix

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.

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New color scheme tools for the year 2013

New color scheme tools for the year 2013

When comes to finding color inspirations or searching for color schemes, there are two main resources: Adobe Kuler and also ColourLovers. Both are really essential for designers, to find the suitable colors, and also using the tools to create personal color schemes.

Coming to the year of 2013, according to Coliss.com, there are many other online color and color scheme tools as well. They are not as powerful as the two sites mentioned earlier, but certainly they will helpful in other ways. Please continue read on to check them out!

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13 beautiful Japan related Pinterest boards worth following

13 beautiful Japan related Pinterest boards worth following

Pinterest. A place where you can find beautiful, inspirational images, and also allows you to pin the images you would like to keep and arrange them into boards. There are a lot of Japan related boards too, and I would like to introduce 13 boards here in this post.

The boards ranging from places, food, art and design, architecture and so much more. I bet that you can know more about Japan with these boards and astonish about the beauty of Japan. Without talking much, please continue reading to check them out!

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JAYPEG: A design showcase website from Japan

JAYPEG: A design showcase website from Japan

There are many websites that designers and artists can use to showcase their brilliant works for example: Dribbble, Behance, DeviantArt and more. With these sites, designers able to showcase their works, find inspiration, make new friends and get more exposure too! Today, I’m going to introduce JAYPEG, a design showcase site that originated from Japan.

The interface design of the JAYPEG website is really clean and minimal. The navigation is really straightforward, and the uploaded designs were arranged in a form of stack. There are only three public stacks at the moment: The Popular stack showing the popular entries; the Latest stack that displays the latest uploads; finally the Newbie stack for first timer. In there, we can find some really nice designs from Japanese designers. Below are some of the cool examples.

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Web Design and Development: Best of 2012

Web Design and Development: Best of 2012

Time is running really fast and now we have few days left before welcoming a brand new year. Well, in the fast moving world of web development, many articles and resources were uploaded by designers and developers to contribute and share with rest of world. And in this post, I gathered a few article links that show you the best of web design and dev resources for the year 2012!

As usual, the links are categorized in different genre for better viewing experience. I will constantly update the list if there’s more links! Please continue reading to find out the links!

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7 heartwarming wedding invitation websites

7 heartwarming wedding invitation websites

Love is in the air… many of my school friends and work colleagues are getting married and certainly I can feel the love and happiness is surrounding them! Well, today in this post, we will be talking about wedding, and to be specific: heartwarming wedding invitation websites.

In my country Malaysia, majority of our people still preferring the good old invitation card to inform friends and family about their wedding and the dinner, but on the net I can see that there are couples that used web as medium to send out invitations. Certainly by using web as medium, the couple has the freedom to express their love story in a creative way. Here I gathered some great examples of them. Check them out after the jump!

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Yellow Website Inspiration

Yellow Website Inspiration

Yellow is the color that brings the meaning of happiness, high energy and cheerful. Today, I’m going to dedicate this post to showcase some really well executed websites that uses yellow as the primary color palette.

It’s hard to design website that uses yellow, because of yellow is bright and high in contrast. You might realize the website samples that I’m going to show you later use less color and commonly pairing yellow color with black and white elements or muted colors. Well this make them really unique. Continue reading to check them out!

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10 colorful Identity Design for your inspiration

10 colorful Identity Design for your inspiration

Identity design is one really exciting field of creative work: not only it provides the visual impression, but also helps conveying the right brand message. Normally the identity design will apply across various items like name card, letterhead and many more, and when putting up together, it creates a harmonious and united design.

Normally we will see identity design presented in minimal colors. But today, I’m going to share with you all some great identity design examples that are vibrant and colorful. Lets check them out, and find out how the designer use various colors to create these beautiful identity designs.

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Awesome fan art movie posters that you must see

Awesome fan art movie posters that you must see

There are a lot of ways to promote a certain thing. But when comes to promoting a movie, movie posters will be the first thing that comes to everyone’s mind. Yes, movie posters play an important role to let everyone know about the movie, and sometimes it can become a precious collectible item too.

Movies give a lot of imagination and inspiration to the audience, and everyone will have different interpretation to the movie. In this post I will show you some really awesome fan art movie posters that were done by talented artists with their own unique styles of presenting the movie poster. Please continue read to check them out!

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Inspiration goes from A to Z

Inspiration Goes From A to Z

I still remember when first learning the English alphabets while I was a kid, we get to sing the ABC song. It was a truly fun moment and until now I still remember the music and lyric. Then, we use alphabets in daily basis, from typing to verbal communication. Our life is inseparable with them.

There are 26 different characters in the modern alphabet system and each of the alphabet characters have distinctive shapes. Although the shapes are pretty much fixed, but these doesn’t limit creative designers from around the world to create something outstanding out of it. In this post, I will show you some inspirations that goes from A to Z!

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