A little while ago I posted about a new mobile patterns inspiration site. This post expands on that offering, providing a collection of mobile inspiration sites.
Some of the sites are focused on specific platforms, while others provide more general mobile design inspiration.
Landing Pad
At Landing Pad, we want to showcase the best of the best, so choose what you consider to be a single screen that best exemplifies your app’s design. App screenshots must be high quality, full size images. We accept both horizontal and vertical orientations. Please also provide the title of your app, your name or studio’s name, and a link of your choice (preferably to your website or the App Store).
Platform: iPad only
Link: landingpad.org
pttrns
Platform: iOS only
Link: pttrns.com
lovely ui
lovely ui is a collection of mobile ui elements, mobile patterns and more. this blog is curated by interactive designer, diana frurip.
Platform: All
Link: lovelyui.com
iOS Inspires Me
Showcase of the best looking iPhone & iPad app icons, app interfaces, app websites & resources.
Platform: iOS only
Link: iosinspires.me
Tap Fancy
TapFancy is a showcase for the very best in iPhone and iPod Touch application design.
Platform: iPhone and iPodTouch only
Link: tapfancy.com
iOSpirations
Platform: iOS only
Link: iospirations.com
webOS Design Patterns
Cataloging UI design patterns in webOS apps.
Most or all of the items here have been hand-picked by me, Geoff Gauchet (@zhephree). You’re free to submit your own suggestions, but there’s no guarantee I’ll accept them and publish them to the site.
This site is here to inspire you to make beautiful and user-friendly and creative webOS apps. These items are apps that fulfill my own interpretation of beautiful or innovative or clever.
Platform: webOS only
Link: webospatterns.zhephree.com
Mobile Awesomeness
Gallery of mobile website designs and list of mobile web development resources.
Platform: All
Link: mobileawesomeness.com
jQuery Mobile Gallery
jQuery mobile is still in alpha, but some ballin’ mobile websites and apps are already out in the wild! JQM Gallery was started to showcase jQuery mobile sites/apps and be a place to go for inspiration and ideas for your next project.
Platform: jQuery mobile only
Link: jqmgallery.com
Tapp Gala
The Best in Mobile Interface Design
Platform: All
Link: tappgala.com
If you know of any other mobile inspiration sites you’d like to share, please leave a link via the comments.
Thanks for the excellent resources. I wish all the sites offered more useful images like tappgala did. They offer multiple images for each featured site so you can see how they designed not only the front of the app, but also the UI.
Thanks for the new bookmarks
Great post. If you want to see more, check out my Inspiration page, which currently features 21 mobile design pattern libraries. You can see it here: http://mobilegui.net/inspiration/
Cheers!
Chris
Great stuff, thanks for the post.