Lead Designer for Clearly Innovative breaks down pros and cons of her favorite websites for UI and UX inspiration. Based on this blog: http://www.clearlyinnovative.com/8-resources-for-ux-ui-inspiration

2.  getting inspiration from
other people’s 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

3. Pros
Useful for brainstorming
layout
Good for typography
treatment – I’m most
often browsing through
the “Architecture &
Urbanism” category
Cons
 occasionally 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, I’m not using Issuu for
it’s intended purpose– my
standpoint is strictly design
related)

5. Pros
 HUGE inventory of creative
content
 A lot of current content
reflecting even the most
recent events and newest
things
 Since Pinterest pulls from all
of the sites mentioned in
this post and several more,
so the pool of content is
strong
Cons
 It’s 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

7. Pros
 running 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
years
Cons
 With an account you can
create a stack and up-vote
items by hovering over the
item and selecting an
arrow icon. I’m 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

9. Pros
 You can filter by task. This is
helpful when analyzing
general user flows like
“discovering,” “tagging,” or
“commenting.”
 it only features real
applications; you won’t find
any concept design here.
Cons
 Not enough content. My
visit to new content ratio is
imbalanced; I’ve scoured
through the majority of the
tasks and I need newer
sh**!

11. Pros
 All the websites they
feature are live, so you can
test out the responsiveness
and experience the
website instead of just
looking at a flat comp
Cons
 I’m a new adopter to
SiteInspire, but I’ve been
told that the content does
not update regularly
enough

13. Pros
 It’s Dribbble. Where do I
start?
Cons
 It’s 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 product
 After 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

15. Pros
 Strong curation of websites
with a large list of categories
 I also like the ability to search
by type/tag like,
“ecommerce,” “form,” or
“progress bar”
Cons
 The navigation can be a little
screwy. For example, you’re
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! It’s beautiful, but I want
to see more examples…when
you click back, the
navigation does not take you
back to your results page.
Instead, it takes you to the
homepage.

17. Pros
 At 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
ago
 I prefer because of its
comprehensive mobile app
library
Cons
 Don’t bother using the
search bar. If the keyword
does not match a category
in its menu, then you will not
get any results
 For example, a search for
“content” yields zero results,
but a search for “content
screen” (an actual
category) returns many
results

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