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Inspiration UI – Find design inspiration from real live projects

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110 pointsgzmihai21 comments

This is awesome! I had been wanting EXACTLY this for a long time now. I'm not a UX / design person, but I appreciate the impact that it has. Normally I'll just look at what others are doing and implement my own variations on it, but it's difficult to find small examples, and exploring stuff in websites such as dribbble is tedious.

I like this better because on dribbble, all thumbnails and screenshots are so curated, polished, or shot in that same tilted 3d with shallow depth of field... that everything looks good.

Thumbnails here look more real.

Yes! Me too! I am extremely excited about this. I especially love the "All Patterns" menu that lists different types of components: popups, pagination, CTAs, etc.

You perfectly summarize why I started this project. Although Dribbble & Behance are great for inspiration, sometimes is hard to find specific patterns for your use case.

http://patterntap.com used to be great for this sort of thing, but then the guy behind it decided, ironically enough, to redesign the interface and that killed the site. Also Dribbble came out around the same time, so it didn't help either.

Most of those designs look the same to me. It's the "clean", minimalist, flat, vibrant colors, boring fad. It's sad that creative artists are not allowed in professional design.

There are plenty of creative people doing professional UI design work. However, usually they aren't the ones posting yet another flat or Material Design dashboard to Dribbble.

The 404 error pages are rather amusing:

http://inspirationui.com/tags/254

^ Tags should really be you know, actual tags, not tag ID's though, how are search engines supposed to know what each tag is outside of the URL (which is the easiest indicator I would assume). Only just noticed this about tags.

Yes, you are right. Those URLs should be prettier. Thx for your feedback

Love it. I would love to have this for mobile apps too.

http://pttrns.com/

There is a lot of great mobile inspiration out there. For the moment, my focus is on the web patterns.

Also check out http://Crayon.co to find designs sorted by industry.

Was curious about that site, but why do they lock me out until I sign up! Hate that new trend :(

Weird that they would do that with this sort of site. Weirder still, there's a tiny link in the footer which takes you to the actual content (https://www.crayon.co/f/), which you can look at a for a second or two, or until you scroll or something, until an annoying signup modal appears. Said modal can of course be trivially banished by editing the DOM (or with a single line of JavaScript).

very nice! how is the content sourced and picked?

I have a private chrome extension wich help me to grab the image & URL quickly for a particular pattern (I have plans to publish this extension). I curate the content from various design inspiration sites I visit daily.

I started this project as a solution to capture and organize web patterns that I like.

What you do is you collect, not curate.

PS. The hamburger menu and the "all patterns" droplist don't work in Mobile Safari. They don't respond to taps at all. FYI.

I believe I have a combination from both.

P.S. thx for the ios issue. now it's fixed.

Now... take some advice from your own UI inspiration and don't do something as insane as adding a white 90% opacity overlay as you're scrolling and mousing over things. Extremely jarring.

I guess it's a matter of taste here, but I'll take the feedback.

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