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Delicious Mobile UI Inspiration

03 May 12

. Inspiration

Delicious Mobile UI Inspiration

In this modern, fast moving 21st century, mobile phone has been an essential in our daily life and with the growing popularity of smartphone, it enables users to connect with each other much easier in a more enjoyable way with various applications installed. There are hundreds of thousands of apps available for download, and some of them are really well designed.

In this post, I will show you a total of 9 websites that are dedicated to showcase the best and delicious mobile user interface (UI) that are not only good looking but also intuitive. These websites are very useful to UI designers that are looking for inspirations for next UI design project. Be sure to check them out and bookmark them!

10 lovely brochures found on Pinterest

14 Mar 12

. Art & Design, Inspiration

10 Lovely brochures found on Pinterest

As many of you guys had known, Pinterest is the hottest social website right now! Users pinning up interesting images found all over the Internet that makes Pinterest an ideal place looking for inspirations. In this post I will show you some really lovely brochure designs found in the website.

Besides that, I will also post some useful links related to brochure designs, for example resources of brochure templates and more, just to update my previous post about brochure I posted some time ago. Please continue reading to check out the brochures!

Know The Font: 3+ Typography Inspiration Sites

11 Oct 11

. Inspiration, Typography

Know The Font: 3 Typography Inspiration Sites

[Updated] We all knew that there are a lot of websites showcasing the great usage of fonts and type treatment on various mediums like web or on the print, but sometimes you just want to know what font they are using. Well you can use font identification service to check the similar fonts, but is there any resources that tells you the font name?

Well there are, I found 3+ websites that not only showcase good examples of typography but also the fonts behind the design. Continue read on to check them out.

10 Newspaper & Magazine Websites with good and usable front page design

04 Sep 11

. Inspiration, Web Design

10 Newspaper amp; Magazine Websites with good and usable design

Because currently I worked in a newspaper company, I have the opportunities to redesign the online version of their newspaper. I have not done any newspaper website design before and this is a great challenge for me. I always think that it is hard to create designs that has large amount of content and the flexibility of the layout, as well as how to make it usable to readers.

From my research, online version of Newspaper or magazine must have a layout that allow people to quick scan the latest news and quickly know the news that matters the most of the particular day. To support this, we can use white space, typography, colors etc to achieve this result. Besides that, also have to think of how to make space for advertising without taking too much attention away from the main content. Below are the examples of newspaper and magazine websites with good and usable front page design.

8 websites to look for infographics inspiration

16 Jul 11

. Art & Design, Inspiration

infographic inspiration

Information graphics or in short, infographics, are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge. With visual aids, complex data can be presented in graphical way and is easier to remember and more enjoyable when reading it. Currently, there are a lot of educational articles are presented in infographic on the Internet, and I found 8 useful websites that showcase the inspirational infographics.

While majority of the infographics are designed and presented in a form of image, but there are also animated one, as well as interactive. I personally really like infographics because it is entertaining and creative. Without further elaborating, below are some websites that you should visit for infographic inspiration.

iOS Fabric Texture in Web Design

08 May 11

. Inspiration, Web Design

iOS Fabric Texture in Web Design

Apple is very popular for its innovative and cutting edge hardwares and softwares, and somehow they are the trend setter in terms of design. For example back in the days, the rising of the glossy button was inspired by Apple and now, the fabric texture in the Apple iOS.

The fabric texture was seen as the background for the app folders, as well as in the Maps app, when you click the page flip button at the bottom right corner. The texture is classy and subtle, and really fits well as background. Besides app, on the web world I started to see the fabric texture featured in some websites. Here I will show you 5 websites that uses iOS fabric texture as background.

Levitating Self-Portraits by Yowayowa Camera Woman

03 May 11

. Inspiration

Photography is a very interesting creative form of art. People can capture many things with their camera and one of it is taking self-portraits. Recently I found a set of really interesting self-portraits where in every shot, the photographer is hanging in the air. Entering the levitating self-portraits by Natsumi a.k.a. Yowayowa Camera Woman.

According to Natsumi, “Yowayowa” means weak or feeble. In the levitating self-portraits series, the photos have lots of varieties. Some shots are taken close to the photographer, some are further away. Some shots with simple jumping, while some are action-packed. But overall, the levitating photos are really cleverly well interacted with the surroundings.

10 Websites To Look For Business Cards Design Inspiration

14 Mar 11

. Inspiration

10 Websites To Look For Business Cards Design Inspiration

Business cards are cards bearing business information about a company or individual. It’s a very important form of tool for business situation and self promotion. A clean, well designed card printed on quality paper shows the person’s profession and chances getting greater impression by the receiver are higher.

There are many cool business cards designs and today I’m going to introduce 10 awesome websites that you can look for business cards design inspiration. With these sites, you can find all sorts of well designed cards and out of the box designs. Read on to check them out!

9 Web Design Blogs That I Enjoy Visiting Recently

13 Feb 11

. Inspiration, Web Design

9 Web Design Blogs That I Enjoy Visiting Recently

There are tonnes of websites and blogs that dedicated to topics related to web design and development, ranging from design best practices, tutorials to design inspiration. I bet as a Web Designer, everyone has their favorite web design blogs. Recently, I discovered 9 web design blogs that worth a visit.

These websites that I’m going to introduce might not be as popular as the mainstream blogs, but definitely they have something that are useful for you as well. I really enjoy visiting them. Please continue reading and check those websites out!

7+ Websites with Unique Scrolling Experience

24 Jan 11

. Inspiration, Web Design

7 Websites with Unique Scrolling Experience

Recently I found another interesting style in Web Design as the boring scrolling experience become really unique and fresh. Scrolling in either horizontally or vertically, it brings the whole new perspective towards creative presentation on the web. We can see how the designers telling a story through scrolling down a page, and the creative placement of the graphic elements that react according to the browser screen.

Personally I found this is really interesting and definitely worth checking out how it actually be done. If you know any resources or tutorials that talks about this cool effect please do let me know by commenting at comment form below. Without further talking, below are the 7 websites that I would like to share with you guys.