Showcases
Flawless iPad user interface designs that you just have to see
Jun
One of the many reasons to why I want to buy an iPad is the beautiful design it features. Not only is the product itself designed beautifully but the apps that are built for it tend to have truly impressive user interfaces. Since there was a quick increase in the number of gorgeous app designs I decided to collect and showcase the ones I thought were the best. Hope you like them and I would like to thank LandingPad as the majority of the screenshots came from there and not to forget the developers and designers who worked on the apps.
Having fun with transparency
May
Web design continues to grow and advance with new features constantly being brought forward through browsers, programming and markup languages. Being creative doesn’t necessarily being the first to use these new features but instead being the first one to experiment. Take a look at the border-radius property, on first glance it just just rounds off corners, but when you begin to delve deeper and experiment you realise that the property can do much more than just round off corners. To be creative you don’t have to magically spark new ideas all the time, sometimes its about working with what you have and ‘thinking outside the box’. In this post I shall be sharing and explaining a number of creative uses of transparency in web design.
This post has an autoplaying video for the example hinted above, be warned, I know some of you can hate autoplaying flash videos (including me) but this one is okay, just some relaxing music while you read.
Celebrating the finale of LOST with outstanding fan art
May
Since I am a huge fan of LOST and the finale is about to air in roughly 12 hours I thought it would be fitting to celebrate the huge success the show has had. Now some people say there are lovers and haters of the show, I for one believe the haters only hate because they are missing out. The suspense and overall plot of LOST is incredible, the writers seemed to have perfected the ‘cliffhanger’ ending across the years leaving fans right on the edges of their seat. If you haven’t watched any episodes of LOST I strongly suggest you do, if you gave up on the show for various reasons I can only say give it another chance. So in this post, to celebrate, I have showcased some of my favourite LOST fan art I have seen over the past couple of years. I hope you enjoy this post and also the finale coming very soon.
Gorgeous free icon sets that you should be using
May
The amount of icon packs currently available for commercial use is vast, to say the least. Every now and then when you’re working on a design and want to find that perfect icon, you spend hours searching the web. Even if you stay focused and manage to find that icon, you’ve probably been sidetracked to such an extent that you don’t know where the icon goes or what you wanted it for in the first place (exaggeration…or not?). This happened to me a fair few times until I started collecting some icon sets I liked and used regularly. Those sets can be seen below, I hope you like them and if you do, don’t forget to pay your respects to the authors.
An inspiring collection of designer workspaces
May
There a number of reasons why you may want to be a designer, the flexibility, the freedom and the potential to become the best in your field. But there is one area that continues to push me towards a design career and that is the office or workspace. Designer’s tend to have such gorgeous desks and computers that I envy and continue to strive for. Below is a collection of beautiful workspaces courtesy of Deskography.
#4 Weekly Site Inspiration
Dec
This week’s site inspiration, features not only stunning portfolio designs but sleek forum designs, company websites and great uses of texture. There is also some awesome illustrations that you must see!
44 Inspiring vCard website designs
Dec
Do you have a business card? How about a vCard? Not to long ago a exceptional interface design called Tim Van Damme decided to make an online business card. A website that says a little about him, the sites he has accounts on how to contact him. With a beautiful design and slick animations, Tim inspired many to create their own vCards. Today, I have showcased 44 vCard designs that I hope inspire you to make your own! If you have one and it is not included in this list, leave a comment, I would love to see it!
#3 Weekly Site Inspiration
Dec
This week features five awesome portfolios. I would like to thank Jami Beaton for informing me of Adhemas Batista’s outstanding portfolio design. I hope these portfolio designs inspire you to learn and try something new this week!
35 Websites that use transparency effectively
Nov
Everywhere we go we see transparent objects. So why not implement transparency in web design? If you’ve just made the best background ever but have to cover it all up with content, then why not make that content slightly transparent? Transparency is great for adding depth to a website. The more transparent an area is, the more it seems closer to the area behind it. This can be used to a web designer’s advantage.
20 Web applications with excellent user interfaces
Nov
Just wrote a design related post over at my new blog AppMunch. A website dedicated to bringing you the latest web application news.
