Help inspire me to design great website UI's!

July 20, 2011 3:49 PM

I'm a solo UI designer for an ad agency & I'm looking for good website or blogs that'll inspire me to make cool & effective user interfaces. Individual websites are cool & all ,but what I'm really looking for are sites like TheFWA or SmashingMagazine that curate cool designs. Bonus points for sites that look at e-commerce websites. Fellow web designers: Where do you get inspiration?
posted by cuando to computers & internet (6 answers total)

You will love PatternTap and it's tag based structure. GetElastic covers e-commerce from many different perspectives and it pretty much mandatory.
posted by Foci for Analysis at 3:56 PM on July 20, 2011

Dribbble, especially shots with tags like User Interface and UI.
posted by backwards guitar at 5:11 PM on July 20, 2011

Commarts might be more general design than you're looking for, but their daily email always highlights a great website.
posted by Gusaroo at 6:14 PM on July 20, 2011

Khoi Vinh's site, Subtraction (he use to be design director at NYT)

Cocoia blog
posted by Bron at 7:08 PM on July 20, 2011

You could request an invite to Forrst. I can vouch for the quality of the designs the community members produce – and, as a bonus, you can get feedback on your own work.
posted by xax at 8:43 AM on July 21, 2011

Webcreme might help.
posted by pleuroma at 9:34 AM on July 21, 2011