Open Source Resources for Web Application Developers

Gustavo Pimenta is a user experience designer focused on making the Web a better place. He mentioned that he is addicted to making screenshots of some of the best design elements / soultions, e.g. 404 Page, Autocomplete, buttons, breadcrumbs, comments, forms, graphs, headings and a lot more. I am sure this hugh collection of really nice design elements / solutions can give you so much inspiration for your web / web application design.

Source: Flickr: Gustavo Pimenta’s Collection: [Design Solutions]

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iPhone Web Apps combine the power of the Internet with the simplicity of Multi-Touch technology, all on a 3.5-inch screen. When you find a web app you like, you can put it on your Home screen for easy, one-tap access.

There are over 600 Web Apps available, I found many of them are useless to be honest. So,what are the best ones? iPhone Toolbox has carefully selected top 25 iPhone Web Apps for us. Feel free to share your favorite ones on the post as well.

Source: Top 25 Free iPhone Web Apps for Your Daily Life

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There are many different kinds of stunning logos. Some are aesthetic, some conceptual, and some cultural. It is also becoming disturbingly clear that logo design has become a public sport. As the public controls their own media more and more-Tivo-ing this, blogging that, YouTube-ing and Googling everything else-people are no longer satisfied to simply consume what is placed before them: They have opinions they want to share. So when a large corporation reveals its new identity, there are hundreds of internet sites flinging their opinions back at it. Even when the village board of Remote votes on a new logo for its two police cars, citizens take to the streets waving pitchforks and copies of their own designs. Committeecide seems to be rampant.

The full 2007 logo design trends report follows. Whether we are noting social, conceptual or aesthetic trends, remember that none of them exist in a vacuum or in a single moment in time. They are results of many trends before them and are developing taproots as we speak.

You can also look at more current Logo Design Trends here.

Source: Logo Design Trends Report 2007

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The quality of design sites around has just been escalating and escalating. Last year FreelanceSwitch has published two articles on finding design inspiration – 34 Places to Get Design Inspiration On and Off and the follow up 60 More Places to Get Design Inspiration. Now, they have just delivered 33 New Places to Get Design Inspiration. Most of them are nicely designed with really useful design resources.

Source: 33 New Places to Get Design Inspiration

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Since May 2005, the Fubiz site is centered on the subjects of the graphic world, the urban culture, the products tendencies and numerical arts. Currently, there are more than 14,000 RSS readers which has proven the success of Fubiz. You can get some really inspiring and creative pictures from Fubiz. I think it will definitely help you some designing extraordinary and outstanding websites. Have a look at the following examples, you will understand what I mean.

Source: Fubiz

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Oriental Gallery gives you source of oriental design inspiration. There are tons of website galleries, most of them are featuring the same websites over and over again mainly from Europe. Oriental websites and European websites are so different, because the designers have different culture and experience. You should be very familiar with European design style by now. It is a good idea to get some inspiration from oriental style websites as well. Oriental Gallery features some beautiful Eastern websites made by Asian you have never seen.

Source: http://www.oriental-gallery.com

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There’s a shift underway in how people use computers and the Internet. Every day more utility is being delivered over the Web. Full applications can now be run in a browser, accessible from any computer. Software? It’s no longer required. Software is becoming Webware.

We need to look at some professional and successful web applications in order to get inspiration. There are a lot of the top web applications in this place. It is called Webware which is the site where computer users can learn about new and useful Web applications. You might want to have a look at Webware 100 which showcases the top 100 web applications.

Webware is edited by Rafe Needleman. Rafe was Editor of CNET.com in the early days, 1997 to 1998. During the dot-com bubble he worked at Red Herring, where he wrote Catch of the Day, a daily online column about startups. In the three years of writing the column he interviewed more than 1,000 startup CEOs.

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.webware.com
License: N/A

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Have you ever thinking of downloding over 650 Vector Logos from one place? You can download all of the vector logos immediately after you have registered on All Free Logo. Those logos are resiziable with really high quality. They are really good for inspiration. Go and get them now.

Requirements: Required Registeration
Demo: http://www.allfreelogo.com/
License: License Free

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Showcase Point is a daily updated showcase for website showcases / galleries all over the world which contains a lot of nice CSS showcases and flash showcases. Website showcases are very important to webmasters. They can drive a lot of traffic to your website once your site is published on one of the most popular showcases. We love to submit our websites to those showcaes, however where can we find them?

Showcase Point is the one designed to help you find the nice showcases, and provide you a place to do the review, discussions about the showcase. They also provide you the PageRank for reference. Once you have find the chosen ones, you can press “Submit” button, submit your site through a popup window easily without leaving the list of showcases. I think it is a really good source of inspiration.

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.showcasepoint.com
License: License Free

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Web Designer Wall is designed and maintained by Nick La, who also runs N.Design Studio and Best Web Gallery. He has been designing for several years and his works has been published on numbers of magazines. WDW serves as his public blog where he posts his design ideas, design techniques, tutorials, and talk about modern web design trends.

Nick La said
“Why Web Designer Wall? As a designer, I often have a lot of ideas that flow in my mind; usually I draw them on my sketch pad and then paste on the wall. This is how the name was created — a wall of ideas.”

The design of Web Designer Wall is amazing. There are a lot of useful resources about design. His latest article on Vector Illustration Trend is inspiring as well.

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.webdesignerwall.com
License: N/A

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