Comments on: Sleek Interface Designs from DeviantART

By: chris

chris — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:05:05 +0000

I’m with John Blasting. Except for 1 or 2 of these they are unusable. They all come from the Hollywood school of interface design: it just has to look good on screen. Design should solve a problem for the user not create more problems.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:59:37 +0000

Wow, this totally brings me back to the 90s, except these are much more refined than those Winamp 3 skins ;)

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:07:44 +0000

Wow, this totally brings me back to the 90s, except these are much more refined than those Winamp 3 skins ;)

By: Larry

Larry — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 06:38:56 +0000

Wow, this totally brings me back to the 90s, except these are much more refined than those Winamp 3 skins ;)

By: Julie

Julie — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:01:44 +0000

I’m with everyone on that this list probably belongs on a “Who wants to be nostalgic about early 90s WinAmp” forum, not a web design blog. Even by today’s video game standards these look tacky… Of course, if your intention was to remind us how far graphic design has come from teetering array of PS gradient overlays and blending options, then you’ve succeeded.

That is not to discourage you from writing more articles, Hakan. I did spend my free time with designing stuff like this as a 15-year-old, too. There’s no shame in being stuck in the world of Tron.

By: Vasili

Vasili — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 12:11:48 +0000

The only one i like in this list is number 9 – Minimalistic winamp skin. All the rest were taken from Star Wars – episode VI.

By: Web Risorsa

Web Risorsa — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:53:25 +0000

All the new designers have to look at this to get inspired about the color, UI, Font and so on… It’s awesome work done…

By: Bertrand

Bertrand — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:27:27 +0000

These are all visually catching but I can’t say at first glance what most of them do, hence, completly fail. Maybe use them for inspiration of some futuristic game design but, please, don’t use these kind of things anywhere else.

By: Jordan Walker

Jordan Walker — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:07:54 +0000

It is the thought that counts as to what not to do when designing interfaces.

By: Lars

Lars — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:12:25 +0000

I’ve been looking for some great sci-fi and futuristic interface designs for inspiration. Most of these already seem very dated though. Very 90′s with loads of detail and work put into some of them but when it comes to actually trying to use it you’d end up spending half an hour trying to find the right place to click before giving up. Typically these types of interfaces are often used in TV shows or movies being played on a loop in the background on some random monitor.

Of course it’s hard to judge any interaction design based on purely a single image or mock-up but most of them are doomed to fail.

Not so much inspiration here apart from perhaps a handful of isolated UI elements, textures and colour schemes. More of a trip down memory lane than anything else.

I still haven’t found a really good futuristic interface that both looks good whilst still maintaining an acceptable usability level. I guess everybody thought the future wouldn’t have very user friendly graphical user interfaces.