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8 Amazing Resources for UX & UI Inspiration!

The secret to great design is to be a copy-cat!getting inspiration from other peoples work is a great way to jumpstart your own creative thinking.we spend a lot of time sifting through UI patterns and websites looking for inspiration, trends and UX best practices.Here are 8 of our favorite places to dig through, ranked somewhat by popularity and frequency of visit

ProsUseful for brainstorming layoutGood for typography treatment Im most often browsing through the Architecture & Urbanism categoryConsoccasionally you may browse through a series of eye-catching cover designs, and then get accosted by a sour grape of a magazine cover. (Grant it, Im not using Issuu for its intended purpose my standpoint is strictly design related)

ProsHUGE inventory of creative contentA lot of current content reflecting even the most recent events and newest thingsSince Pinterest pulls from all of the sites mentioned in this post and several more, so the pool of content is strongConsIts Pinterest. I might be searching for line icon ideas, then start searching for medical icons for an m-health product and oh! look at all these DIY planters for my porch??hello distractions at work

Prosrunning list of categories that you can filter through which include type (for example, content screen) and task/action (find friends)option to filter by year (2013-2015) which can be used to see the progression of how a particular task has been designed over the yearsConsWith an account you can create a stack and up-vote items by hovering over the item and selecting an arrow icon. Im not a fan of the new hover UI because it completely whitens out the interface design you are looking at. I would like to see a more subtle hover effect so that if I up-vote something it does not obstruct my view of what I actually want to up-vote

ProsYou can filter by task. This is helpful when analyzing general user flows like discovering, tagging, or commenting.it only features real applications; you wont find any concept design here.ConsNot enough content. My visit to new content ratio is imbalanced; Ive scoured through the majority of the tasks and I need newer sh**!

ProsAll the websites they feature are live, so you can test out the responsiveness and experience the website instead of just looking at a flat compConsIm a new adopter to SiteInspire, but Ive been told that the content does not update regularly enough

ProsIts Dribbble. Where do I start?ConsIts hard to determine if a shot is an example of a real and functional website or product. I love everything that I find on Dribbble, but many times the work does not link to a live website because it is conceptual and not actually a real productAfter working with developers for the past three years, I have started scrutinizing design more closely to figure out how some design comps actually work if they do at all

ProsStrong curation of websites with a large list of categoriesI also like the ability to search by type/tag like, ecommerce, form, or progress barConsThe navigation can be a little screwy. For example, youre on the homepage and decide to select a type like good copy. You start browsing through the results for that category, then you click on one of the results. Wow! Its beautiful, but I want to see more exampleswhen you click back, the navigation does not take you back to your results page. Instead, it takes you to the homepage.

ProsAt this point it has become more of a habitual thing because it was the first site I browsed through when I started designing mobile interfaces almost two years agoI prefer because of its comprehensive mobile app libraryConsDont bother using the search bar. If the keyword does not match a category in its menu, then you will not get any resultsFor example, a search for content yields zero results, but a search for content screen (an actual category) returns many results

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