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Do it. There’s no other option.

Of all the projects we worked on here at envis precisely, one personally stands out to me. It is not our most prestigious project and certainly not the one that generated the most money. Yet it is special to me because it taught me an important lesson about the design process and about life in general. The project I am talking about is iScraper.

The idea to do something like iScraper actually came to us almost one year before it had been released. Now you’re saying: “But Phil, iScraper certainly isn’t that big a project. It didn’t take one whole year to program that”. And you are right. It didn’t. And that’s exactly the point.

This post was written by Philipp
on October 7th, 2010

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Your new Interface Design Resource

Every good designer has known that an applications or websites success many times rely on how well designed the User Interface may be. We as designers, should do what works best for us and our users. The dzineblog published a great resource for Interface Designers. Below you will find a optimized version of a different excellent User Interface resources that will allow you to access, redefine, and create a well designed UI. You should use these resources first as inspiration, and second as somewhat of a guide as to what your users may need when they come face to face with your UI.

1. Interface Design Libraries:
MephoBox
UI-Patterns
Yahoo Design Pattern Library
Pattern Tap
Pattern App
Icon Finder

2. Interface Design Blogs:
UX Mag
UX Booth
Designing Interfaces
UXmatters
inspire UX
Usability Post
Boxes and Arrows
Signal vs Noise
Konigi
Usable Web