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What's your source of realistic mobile UI inspiration, not just dribbblesque rubbish?

5 years ago from Piotr Zięba, Product Designer at Vivy

  • barry saundersbarry saunders, almost 5 years ago

    That Chuck Close quote is about waiting to be inspired before beginning to work, not about doing research.

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    • Arturo Rios Gutierrez, almost 5 years ago

      Interesting! What is the difference between looking for places for inspiration and waiting to be inspired? Possibly one is active and the other is passive. Both of them are accomplished when you reach inspiration. I don't believe in inspiration. I believe in well-conducted research, and translating that research into actionable insights, which inform my design decisions, which I test to validate my assumptions. If there is any "source of inspiration" that can serve as a shortcut to this process do let me know. Thanks!

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      • barry saundersbarry saunders, almost 5 years ago

        I guess my question would be, what do you consider 'research'? Does that include understanding what kinds of interfaces people like and are familiar with?

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        • Arturo Rios Gutierrez, almost 5 years ago

          Absolutely. I think that might be (part of the) research. The problem is that a lot of designers start looking for "inspiration" on Pinterest, Behance, Medium, Dribbble, before actually knowing what are their research questions, and the behaviors they want to encourage through the solution. Laura Klein has a fantastic book called "Design Better Products" which shows how to decide your research efforts. Joe Leech also speaks about procedural knowledge vs declarative knowledge https://youtu.be/mxzK4sWfvH8?t=16m48s

          I appreciate a lot your replies. Thanks Barry!

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