Design@SAIF - Issue #14

July 11, 2016

This issue: Inspiration aggregated, curated. 

After a busy week at TechInAsia, stumbling upon new startups and ideas—I stumbled upon a different aggregation site (different from Behance and Dribbble) which in turn led to more—some old favourites and new discoveries. A vast majority aggregate or curate post-production 'shots', as opposed to designers showing off their visual/motion chops. As one designer friend puts it: "dribbble without output". So here's a list of sites you should visit and possibly bookmark. For inspiration and benchmarking.

Pttrns primarily curates design patterns (app screenshots) across the 'i' spectrum—iPhone, iWatch and iPads. But they've also added an Android section recently. A constantly growing quality collection. Note that some of the screenshots may be going in a reverse order of the workflow, iWatch screens may be clubbed with iPhone and theres a stray advert or two lurking around!

Crayon claims to be "the most comprehensive marketing inspiration search engine on the web." It curates sites that market products/services and are well sorted by categories, collections, 'redesigns-of-the-day and more. You will need to sign up (and its pretty annoying until you do that), but worth it. Plus they have a handy section showing how the site evolved over time.

UI Movement curates inspiring animations and excellent examples of motion in design. In short, get ready for a lot of interesting jumping, swiping, swooshing...

As the name says: this is a collection of all those quirky little details that makes a site, app or a workflow special. The micro interactions, the turn of phrase, that interesting take on a button—its all there.

+Five Talks

Featuring the unplayable piano to disfluency and latent inhibition to economists-with-abs. Some interesting take aways from psychology to behavioural economics—to help you become a better product designer...

Until next week,@jdallcaps @SAIFpartners