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I used to want to be an artist but then i stopped drawing for like 7 years. I want to go back but i'm scared and dont know where to start. So yes, i am interested in those drawing videos can you post them if you dont mind? ^_^

Of course!! I am in the same situation as you actually. I used to draw a lot in middle school (2010-2012) but my depression worsened during high school and in college, I’d only draw as a distraction, never seeking to study or improve. I decided to get back this year, since I decided drawing was the only thing I could see myself doing professionally. I felt very lost, because how do you get back? How do you know what’s your actual, current, art skill? What are your weaknesses? Your strong points?

That’s how I learned to study the fundmentals of art. Because visual art is not a skill. It is a set of skills, if you are very good at anatomy but not really when coming to painting your art is going to look differently than someone who learned anatomy in how to draw manga books but paint like a pro. I am going to divide this post in categories, Also, all the videos I link I also recommend all the channels they are from! My favorites are The Drawing Database, Sycra and Ganev, Sycra and The Drawing Databse have a little of everything and are great at explaining. Ganev is a bit sarcastic but I like the way he teaches. I took some parts of the text of this post from here.

How do I begin? How do you even get back at art? What tips should you use? These are general tips videos, usually nice to draw along. /the fundmentals and how to get started/ /5 tips for better drawing/ /perfect pratice/ /beginner’s guide/ /5 tips for digital art/ /10 tips to improve/ /why your drawings are stiff/ /what level is your art/ /improve your art fast/ /drawing basics/ /how to hold and control your pencil/ /intuitive drawing method/ /iterative drawing/

The Fundamentals: Proportion & Placement Proportion is relationship between one element and another. In the visual arts proportion relates most importantly to the abstract quality of scale and placement. You know how stereotypically an artists puts a pencil to their eye when looking at an object? They’re mesuring the proportion of the object in question and how to represent it corectly in the drawing. /principles of proportion/ /ways to create illusion of space/ /drawing the human figure/ /how to draw proportions playlist/ /how to use proportion in character design/ /basic anatomy and proportions part one/ /part two/ /part three/ /part four/ /proportion basics/

Form & Construction The idea of form is how we see the 3D objects in or world and transform them into 2D in the paper/canvas. It’s understading that eveyrthing is made up of basic forms. /dynamic sketching part one/ /part two/ /how to draw forms/ /structure/ /building form/ /another how to draw forms/ /how to visualize 3D forms/ /form study process/

Perspective & Depth Perspective is knowing that as things move away from the viewer’s eye, things seem to get smaller. Get familiarized with terms like horizon line and vanishing point. This is the basic that must be understood to learn perspective. Here’s a good article about this. /an intro video on the subject/ /step by step tutorial/ /perspective basics part one/ /part two/ /part three/ /part four/ part five /part six/ /another basics video/ /20 perspective lessons/ /eye level tip/ /linear perspective/ /simple form perspective/ /drawing the figure in perspective/

Anatomy Anatomy is something I think it’s one the most crucials things to learn in order to make your drawing look good. Once you understand how joints work you’ll be able to see how bones and muscles move. And this goes for anything with a skeleton. It’s one of those things of you learn the rules before breaking them. I am linking different playlists, since linking different videos on various parts of anatomy would take forever. Just study a body part at time: head, eyes, nose, lips, ears, shoulders, neck, hairline, breats, torso, hands, feet etc. /how to do an anatomy tracing/ /playlist 1 / /draw the head from any angle/ /anatomy for artists/ /draw facial features/ /how to draw and paint/ /playlist 2/ /draw 3/4 head with loomis method/ /playlist 3/ /drawing a head in 3 hours (this one is great to draw along with the artist)/ /how to draw a body/ draw a head with loomis method part 1/ /part 2/ /part 3/ /decipgering bridgman’s anatomy/ /anatomy quick tips/

Gesture Gesture drawing is a method of capturing figures in exaggerated poses, usually drawn quickly. It is important to undersand that the goal of all gesture is to study the figure and see how it moves. I like looking at poses and copying them. Here’s a good article. /how to draw gesture/ /how to draw any pose/ /draw interesting poses/ /a guide on gesture drawing/ /tips for expressive dynamic poses/ /figure drawing tips/

Composition The overall layout of a piece is very important. Artists often consider things like the rule of thirds or the infamous golden ratio. Neither truly defines a composition, but they can both go into your decision making. /composition in art/ /understanding composition/ /10 composition tips/ /beginner’s guide to composition/ /art fundamental: composition/

Value Studying value is very much the study of light and shadow. But there is a technical side of light that you’ll want to pay attention to if you’re going for technical rendering. /guide on rendering/ /seeing light and shadows in daily life/ /10 minutes to a better painting/ /understaing colors and values/ /shading basics/ /ambient occlusion/ /shadow colors/ /tips on how to shade/ /draw shadows on objects and people/ /lighting tutorial/

Color Theory Color theory is understanding which colors go good with eachother, and knowing the pyschology behind it. (what are cool colors? what colors make someone feel comfortable?) It is fundamental in art for you to understand the relationship between colors and what makes them look good. Best color theory books. A comprehensive guide to color theory. /hue value saturation in photoshop/ /color theory for noobs/ /understanding color/ /what you should know about colors/ /warm and cool colors/ /the basic elements/ /choose colors that work/

Traditional Media If you draw in traditional media, all videos above can be used easily. These are just videos for general tips in traditional media, there isn’t many since my focus is digtal ^^’ /watercolor tips/ /draw with colored pencils/ /blending colored pencils/ /4 how to draw lessons/ /Block in colors/ /holding the brush/ /

Digital Media Digital art is how everyone’s been doing art these days. It doesn’t matter if you’re doing with your phone or your computer. I don’t do art on my phone, I know the most used app is mediabang for android and procreate for apple, and I think anyone who is able to do art with their finger is very skilled. If you are like me and prefer doing art on your computer, you probably have your tablet. If not, well you should have. Not having a tablet is not an option if you want to get better at art ^^’ Best tablet for beginners in 2020. Or you can just buy an old used one, if it still works, and you are a beginner, a small intuos is all you need. When talking about softwares, the three big ones I see people using are: Photoshop, Clip Paint Studio and Paint Tool Sai. The best one is CPS, but I find Sai easier to navigate, but CPS is extremely complete and I hope to be able to master it someday. CPS Tutorials. I don’t have much to say about photoshop, people use it mostly because they’ve been using it forever lol I divide my digital painting process in steps: Sketch/Lineart/Color Blocking/Shading/Blending/Color correction. Sketch is the basics, draw your idea. Lineart is to clean your sketch. Color Blocking is to color your drawing one color, so it’s easier to work in it. Shading is to understand where the lighting sources are coming from and apply them. Blending is to blend the colors of your drawing with brushes. Color correction is when I use filters of hue/saturation and others to make the drawing more appealing. These require understadings of the software of your choice which I am not very good at the moment so I can’t give you more tips than that ^^’ Hopefully these videos can help. /perspective grid/ /clean line art/ /coloring process/ /make lineart interesting/ /best brushes for digital painting/ /skin shading tutorial/ /lineart vs painting/ /art in clip studio paint/ /hair tutorial/ /3 tips for improving/ /10 digital art mistakes/ /color block tutorial/ /shading skin/ /from lineart to painting/ /cleaner lineart/ /add texture to your art/ /improve your art with better shadows/ /the importance of brushes/ /use layer modes/ /improve your lines/ /how to blend colors/ /another blending tutorial/ /color blocking/

Exercises It’s no secret that to improve on art, you must pratice. Everyday, even if it’s just a little! A great way to pratice is make use of youtube picture in picture function to draw along in your software of choice. /pratice drawing forms/ /proportion exercises/ /perspective exercises/ /value studies/ /creative drawing exercises/ /simple drawing esercises/

Resources Senshi stocks, a deviantart page full of poses photos. Quick poses, pictures of models, contains nudes. Character design references DesignDoll, create a personalized sketch doll and make it pose.

Phew!!! This took forever to make and is way more than you asked for, but I decided to go all in so I can have a masterpost for me too and for anyone else interested in art. As soon you can understand the fundamentals, you can do your own research and study, youtube is really great for this. I hope this helps, let’s get better at drawing together!!! Ganbarimashou (ง •̀_•́)ง

#anon #askbox #I feel there's a lot more to add but I'm tired I've been working on this sicne yesterday ^^'#Like there's more softwares and resources I could link you I know of that #So when I think of something else I may add to this psot #post #if you feel overwhelmed because this is a lot of info you can start with the beginner section of this psot #and sycra's channel

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jamiekturner · 6 years

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The Best Drawing Tutorials: Learn How To Draw

Good drawing tutorials teaching you the simple steps of how to draw a face or how to draw a person are not easy to find. Everybody wants to learn to draw realistic portraits, but good tutorials are unfortunately scattered on the Internet.

In this article, you will find some of the best tutorials about how to draw step by step.

Digital artwork is so common nowadays that we consider it as something natural, and we almost don’t remember how it began.

The main reason for its success is that it takes traditional realistic drawings to the next level.

-> Click here to skip to the actual drawing tutorials.

Drawing human anatomy, especially how to draw faces may be the biggest challenge of traditional drawing, especially if you don’t have the right approach.

Image source: Arman Akopian

It will take a lot of practice and time before you learn how to draw a head and how to draw a human in general, paying the necessary attention to every part before you’ve finished the entire figure.

Interestingly enough, artists that know how to draw a realistic face or person are in demand on the market regardless of their digital skills.

That’s why we encourage you to learn how to draw realistic people too, practicing drawing with the help of many advanced sketching tutorials, universally applicable theories, techniques, comic arts, tips, and methods which will later on converting your traditional creation into a digital format.

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What your easy drawing tutorials will reveal first and foremost is that traditional realist drawing requires much more effort than its digital counterpart, which is why artists often fall behind.

We’re not saying there are no people whose drawing doesn’t go further than the screen, but the recommended drawing tips are to still follow some old school painting before going into digital design. For instance, for drawing faces, the classical standards always apply.

Therefore, we’ve decided to share some of the most interesting tutorials about how to draw a person step by step for beginners, where the most important traditional drawing techniques and methods are mixed with digital tricks aimed at bringing life and dynamism to the creations on the screen.

Image source: Esben Lash Rasmussen

There is a variety of intermediate and advanced level learning to draw tutorials that can provide you some helpful tips, teach you how to do a pencil drawing, human sketching, color processing, or how to handle perspectives, shapes, and proportions. For now, we hope we’ve shared enough techniques and practices helping you to overcome the initial drawing difficulties.

Is never easy learning how to draw. It takes a lot of time to practice and you need to have good guidelines and easy step by step drawings tutorials to follow. Finding the right sketching tutorials hasn’t been easy but I’ve managed to make a pretty good list of drawing tutorials that would help you in your quest for becoming a master of drawing.

I’ve sorted them in six categories: the drawing of a face, the human body, hands, hair, animals and caricatures and also added at the end other resources where you can find lots and lots of drawing tutorials.

Drawing humans

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The nose of the character you just drew looks like anything but a real nose? We understand your distress!

Before you’ve actually started to recreate humans as they really are, you have to learn how to do realistic faces, but there is no need to worry – Soon, you will be able to easily recreate your favorite characters.

The trick is to learn how to do blending – take a pencil and a piece of paper, and use the tutorial to learn how to shade light and dark gradually. This is the first step towards replicating essential skin contours.

In fact, shading is the first thing you need to learn in order to make shapes look three-dimensional and part of the lesson about how to draw a face step by step.

Once you’ve adopted the basics, proceed with face drawing. The secret of drawing a face is to look at features carefully, paying special attention to interlocking shapes in order to apply shadows and highlights in the right places.

Next thing you need know, is learning of drawing heads. Soon, by daily practice, you’ll be an expert in drawing facial expressions, and combining elements in incredibly realistic portrait drawing having a lot to do with the character you are trying to recreate. Let us guide you through the process of drawing step by step:

Drawing faces

The most difficult, yet most rewarding part of your drawing experience will be learning how to draw realistic faces, as this is something even experienced artists are struggling with.

Our purpose here is to teach you how to make pencil portraits, where the steepest learning curve is of natural expressions.

How to Draw the Head from Any Angle

In this tutorial, you’ll see Andrew Loomis’s approach to drawing heads. It’s a great method for head drawing from various angles, learning the details of head proportions.

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How To Draw A Female Face: Step By Step

There are many ways to draw. In this art video, the author shows some of the tricks he has discovered over the years that he uses in his own art and art teaching.

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Drawing, shading and blending a face

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How to Draw a Face Accurately – Exercises to Improve Your Drawing

Learn how to draw with pencils with this guy’s step by step drawing tutorials. He’ll show you how to draw anything from beginning to the end, but especially a portrait reference.

For some subjects like drawing animals, getting used with the basic shapes first is a useful practice. For human face drawing, the preferred method is of starting with the eye. But whatever the subject matter or method, he will always show you the easiest and most effective way how to draw realistic images.

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How to Draw a Pretty Face with Pencil

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Basic Anatomy for the Artist – Lesson 2

Drawing the Human Eye

How to Draw Eyes

How to Draw a mouth and teeth

How to Draw a Realistic Eye

How to draw ears

Lackadaisy Expressions

Facial Aging

How to draw lips

Eye-drawing tutorial

Drawing a facial expression

Facial expressions are an important part of how to draw a human face experience. It helps to understand how people are feeling or what they want and expect you to do. The information they provide for drawing people is vital, the same as the experience artists glean by simply looking at random people.

When learning how to draw face, the best source of inspiration is looking at people while they’re relaxing.

Part of the process of how to draw a person step by step is letting them share their emotions with you, paying specific attention to every detail. It is considerably easy to understand how to draw a face when people are comfortable and keep theirs in a comfortable position.

Besides, it is critical for them to look at you without a specific emotion so that you can pull out the perfect eye scratch, and translate every detail to the portrait sketch.

As you can see, the basics of drawing a person are really simple. It takes only to ‘spice them up’ with a pinch of your own creativity, and you’ll have the best step-by-step drawings at your little finger.

How to draw Various Expressions

In this video you will see learn to draw 5 different types of expressions and the principles of creating these shapes. The author will also explain how the art of cartooning is perfect for learning how to sketch a face and various facial expressions.

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Facial Expressions in Comics: 10 Tips to Help You

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How to draw 4 types of facial expressions

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Drawing human body

How to draw the Human Figure – Body Construction tutorial

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How To Draw Characters in Perspective: Bird’s Eye View

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How to Draw Gesture

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Female body study

Clothes study

Clothing Tutorial

Drawing hands

Don’t worry about being unable to recreate hands and legs, as both are perceived to be the most difficult body parts to portray on a drawing or a sculpture.

Keeping the focus on faces as the most challenging parts, we’d consider their connection to emotional states for the second position on our ‘difficulty list’. Part of the larger anatomy drawing tutorial, hands are the perfect tool to showcase fear, anger, serenity, resignation, or even surprise.

These tutorials of how to learn to draw will also teach you to recreate the hand’s anatomy: you need to consider the basic bone framework first, and work around it with the right proportions for further drawing the muscles’ actions. Not an easy draw, anyway, but an important stage of the process of learning how to draw good.

Draw arms and hands

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How to Draw HANDS and HAND POSES

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How to Draw Hands, 2 Different Ways

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How to Draw Hands – 5 Different Ways

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Tutorial: Drawing Hands

Drawing Hands and Feet

Basic Anatomy for the Artist – Lesson 6

Drawing hair

Drawing hair won’t make the ‘human challenge’ any easier, and will be particularly intimidating for beginners already fighting hard to manage drawing the head techniques.

Usually, some serious commitment to detail is required, which explains more or less why some artists gave up on their dream and preferred sloppy scribbles instead.

Even for those who’re in the branch for years, drawing hair is still a daunting experience. That, however, is because they didn’t adopt the right approach to overcome their fears. Drawing hair will require you to pay attention to three specific details: the strands, the structure, and the tone of the hair. You need to practice this is you want to learn how to draw people step by step.

Image source: Serge Birault

First and foremost, you have to make hair look shiny, which can be easily achieved by shadowing and highlighting certain parts with a wide loose pencil. Start with the lighter tones first, in order to reveal the structure. Once that’s done, proceed with the darker strips.

Don’t be afraid to do strand by strand, even if it takes a lot of time, but it will help to maintain certain drawing proportions. Of course, we’re not saying each and every hair has to be depicted, rather that the hair needs to appear rich, crispy, and highlighted with light and mid tones in certain areas.

An important rule you shouldn’t forget for completing your face drawing tutorial is avoiding too many dark tones, as they can affect the shine of the hair.

You’ll be required to do some highlighting even when the hair of the original character is really dark, by simply applying more mid-tones than the ones usually used for lighter hair. In that case, you better stick to medium gray as the darkest tone you’re allowed to use.

How to Draw Hair the Easy Way

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Emily’s Tutorials: How to draw realistic hair!

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Drawing hair demonstration

Need tips on how to draw hair? The author is walking you through her tips for creating realistic hair texture. The tips apply no matter what medium you’re working in for drawing portraits.

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Detailed Hair part 1

Hair drawing tutorial

Drawing animals

Drawing animals is as challenging as drawing people, even more, if you may think you’re less familiar with them than you are with human nature.

Once again, there will be a variety of lifelike reproduction details to pay attention to, and a large effort to make the drawing unique instead of simply duplicating someone’s previous work.

Luckily, there are many animal-inspired artists and admirers who prepare in-depth tutorials and provide rich illustrations teach you how to recreate these charming creatures in easy realistic drawings.

How to Draw Animals

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Dog portrait

Drawing caricatures

How to Draw Caricatures: The 5 Shapes

How to Draw Caricatures: Head Shapes

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11 great UI designs

In web design, great user interface, or UI design, is all about helping the user to accomplish a given task as simply and efficiently as possible. While the look and feel is undeniably important, at the core of a great UI is function: in terms of navigation, it should be intuitive to the point of being invisible. As soon as a user gets lost, or can’t work out where to go, the UI has failed.

This list of websites and apps may have different design principles and different functions, but they have one thing in common – effective UI design that satisfies all of the above and more. Read on to find out why they’re so successful.

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01. Tilt Brush

Virtual reality is very much frontier territory as far as UI and UX is concerned, its designers and developers having to make stuff up as they go along, with naturally mixed results. What works on a flat screen doesn’t necessarily work so well in VR, and building an effective and useful VR app that you can use for hours without getting motion sickness can be quite a challenge.

So it’s great to see a VR product like Google’s Tilt Brush – which lets you build up 3D paintings in a virtual environment – that not only works, but is so intuitive to use with such great results that artists are already incorporating it into their creative workflows. Head this way for some excellent pro tips on getting started with this game-changing creative app.

02. Patterning

Patterning’s circular, minimal approach makes it easier to roll your beats

Olympia Noise Co’s iOS drum machine, Patterning, is unlike any you’ve seen before, and with good reason. Rather than sequence your rhythm on a grid like every other music app, Patterning uses a circular interface for the basic business of laying out your beats, with colour coded drums so that you can easily see what’s what.

And beyond the basics, Patterning’s smart but minimal UI makes the more complicated business of sequencing longer songs out of individual patterns a lot less challenging, enabling you to easily create variations on patterns and then fit everything together. It takes a similarly straightforward approach to making everything sound better, too; both its mixer and FX interface are thoughtfully laid out with bold visual cues that help you get the sound you want without getting bogged down among inscrutable controls.

03. MailChimp

MailChimp’s design is clean and flat and largely tyopographical

Enewsletter creation and management may not be the most exciting task in the world, but the beautifully designed, intuitive user interface design of MailChimp makes it that much more palatable. Since its recent redesign, the web UI is clean, flat and primarily typographical.

When your account is first set up, the classic ’empty account’ problem before your first campaign gets off the ground is balanced out by helpful, visually pleasing user guides. There’s plenty of white space, and clear calls to action walk new users through every step of the process – in some cases even incorporating a subtly-animated pointer to indicate where to click.

Helpful calls to action prevent you getting lost in MailChimp

04. Authentic Weather

Straight to the point

On his Behance page, German-born, New York-based designer Tobias van Schneider outlines his reasons for creating yet another weather app – with tongue firmly in cheek. The most important reason is to “get to the point”, and Authentic Weather certainly does.

Combined with a simple line-drawing icon, the app delivers such charming insights as “it’s fucking raining now” and “freezing cold like a fucking fridge”, set large in Akzidenz-Grotesk – fulfilling another of van Schneider’s goals, to show off the classic “more beautiful than Helvetica” typeface. Swipe up to share; swipe down to look at tomorrow or the day after; and pinch to show the temperature. And that’s it.

Authentic Weather keeps things nice and simple

05. Paper for iPad

Paper is designed to be intuitive to use

A multi-award-winning app designed to help users be creative in a more intuitive, natural way, Paper lets you draw with your fingertips with a surprising level of detail – although it also works with a stylus if more precision is required.

Designed exclusively for touch, Paper’s UI design has no buttons or settings to worry about – just a series of specialised tools. The versatile fountain pen-style Draw tool comes free, while Sketch (soft pencil), Outline (bold marker), Write (ink pen), Color (watercolour brush) and Mixer (colour blender) come as in-app purchases.

Rather than buttons, Paper has a set of specialised tools

06. GlobeConvert

GlobeConvert Pro helps you sort out your currency

Part of the Globe family of apps – which also includes travel guide GlobeMaster and tips calculator GlobeTipping – GlobeConvert Pro makes the perennial challenge of switching between currencies and standard units of measurement much simpler as you travel the world.

The UI design is surprisingly clean and uncluttered, considering the range of options available: over 190 currencies, with dynamically updating exchange rates, and over 80 units of measurement in 10 different categories. It’s as straightforward as selecting what you need on the left-hand menu, and entering the necessary values.

07. Things

Award-winning Things is designed to make your life easier

Available for both Mac and iOS, Things is a popular task management app with an award-winning design that’s intuitive and easy to pick up, based around the familiar to-do list concept. As its creators Cultured Code point out, the idea is to make your life easier, after all.

The slick, clean user interface design comes pre-divided into lists to help you categorise your tasks: urgent things go in ‘Today’, slightly less urgent can wait until ‘Next’, while ‘Schedule’ plans further ahead. Each entry captures important information in one go – title, notes and due date, as well as tags if required to help categorise everything. Best of all, the Quick Entry window is accessible from anywhere using a simple keyboard shortcut – and it’s all synced automatically across desktop, iPhone and iPad.

08. Campaign Monitor: Worldview

Worldview lays out complex data in an accessible way

A wonderfully original idea that puts an engaging twist on email subscription data, Campaign Monitor: Worldview overlays information about individuals who are opening, clicking and sharing your communications on a Google Map in real-time for both geographical and personal insights.

The landing page introduces the concept in an immediate visual way, with example pins dropping onto a world map – and the application interface itself is refreshingly clean, revolving around the map and a few basic menus for controlling settings. A great example of UI design with simple iconography and colour coding identifying different categories of user engagement at a glance.

09. Meter.Me

Meter.Me relies on simple swipes; useful for when you’re on the move

A fitness activity monitoring app for runners and cyclists, Meter.Me has a minimal, typographical user interface design that relies on necessarily simple swiping gestures to enable users to navigate through the different options while in the process of exercising, rather than fiddling about with menus and settings.

During the development phase, Australian designer Adam Vella conducted extensive research into the field, and found that users who tracked their workouts tend to achieve higher fitness levels – within Meter.Me, relevant data is sorted and displayed in real time, tracked, and then condensed into daily report format for reference.

Extensive research informed Meter.Me’s UI design

10. Figure

Figure’s designed to help you bang out tunes on the go

Yet another example of flat design making a potentially very complicated UI design look very clean and intuitive, Figure is a synthesiser and drum machine for iOS from Swedish developer Propellerhead, which is also behind desktop music production software Reason.

You can tap the touch-screen pads, hold your finger down and scroll the rhythm wheels for a range of different sounds, or swipe across the screen to play different notes in the scale. There are also wheels to control the range of notes you have to work with, the number of notes in melodies and bass lines, and various tabs to tweak the sound in a variety of ways.

11. Kennedy

Brendan Dawes’ Kennedy adds context to your memories

There’s nothing quite like scrolling through a load of your old Twitter updates and wondering what in the hell you were thinking of when you posted that thing six months ago. Lack of context can often mean that something that made perfect sense at the time can be rendered meaningless months or years down the line.

Kennedy, a diary app from the ever-excellent Brendan Dawes, is designed to add context to your memories. You can use it to create text notes of what you’re up to, just like you might type into Facebook or Twitter, and maybe add photos to the notes while you’re at it. The clever touch, though, is that Kennedy then adds an extra layer of context by adding your location, the date and time, the current weather conditions, a news headline and, if you’re listening to music on your phone at the time, the name of the track you’re listening to.

Kennedy’s added details make a rich alternative to dry notes

The result is that instead of a dry note that won’t really mean much down the line, you instead capture a particular moment a lot more fully, complete with plenty of prompts that can help bring back a memory in much more detail. And Dawes’ clean design and smart UI keeps everything simple and good-looking.

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