Modern Lock, Home, Start and Login Screens used in Mobile Apps

Modern Lock, Home, Start and Login Screens used in Mobile Apps

Today we are going to take a gander at various basic and fundamental functional screens that are intrinsic to the majority of mobile applications as well as a mobile operating system. Our discussion is particularly centered on the home screen, …

Glossy and Transparent Elements in Mobile App Interfaces

Glossy and Transparent Elements in Mobile App Interfaces

Transparency – is an effect that works well both on a large and small screen. It is skilled in creating contrast and a firm foundation for navigations, control centers and content, providing them with solid layouts. It is also able …

How to Control Gradient Mesh in Illustrator

How to Control Gradient Mesh in Illustrator

I met a lot of graphic designers who avoid working with a gradient mesh by a reason of the complexity of controlling the object. I also met real fans of gradient meshes that create real photorealistic artworks with their help. …

Tricky Balance: Great Examples of Content Heavy Website Designs

Tricky Balance: Great Examples of Content Heavy Website Designs

In the world of information overload, content-heavy website designs are slowly but surely becoming the usual thing. And this feature is not only typical for eCommerce and news-related websites, but also for a great deal of other regular websites such …

Sleek Charts and Graphs Mobile Apps featuring Statistics

Sleek Charts and Graphs Mobile Apps featuring Statistics

We are surrounded by a huge amount of information traffic that sometimes is difficult to comprehend in its pristine form. In order to skillfully interpret quite boring statistics designers to employ verily unique methods that generally involve simple but effective …

Designing Big: Tips for Using Oversized Layouts

Designing Big: Tips for Using Oversized Layouts

For some projects any old design just won’t do. You need something big, bigger than big even, over the top. That’s where using an oversized layout comes in. From big photos or video to backgrounds, photos and type, big layouts …

Peculiar Balance Asymmetrical Website Designs

Peculiar Balance Asymmetrical Website Designs

Developing website designs with a lopsided feel is a rather common approach nowadays. Majority of designers resorts to off-center landing pages in order to initially concentrate users’ attention on the most important things, recreating strong visual paths. An inability to …

15 Best Websites with Non-Standard Navigation

15 Best Websites with Non-Standard Navigation

Navigation is among the most important pieces of every single website. No content would be reachable without properly designed navigation that answers the questions “where am I?” and “where can I go from here?”. We got used to either a …

Interview with Designer: Anton Repponen

Interview with Designer: Anton Repponen

I’m a New York based interactive designer with architecture background. Currently I work as a Global Creative Director at Fi (Fantasy Interactive) and I collaborate with a very talented team of designers, developers and ux designers. I’m responsible for delivering …

The Ultimate UX Design of a Google Glass App

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The Ultimate UX Design of a Google Glass App

This episode is special as instead of going through web and mobile apps Marcin explains the meanders of Google Glass Design – the first meaningful wearable computer. 1. Glass? Why should I care? When I heard about the Google Glass …