7 Great Resources for iOS UI Design Inspiration

Designing a new iPhone app can be a daunting task. So we have gathered together a collection of seven of the best iOS UI design blogs out there. Most of them break down apps into different UI patterns for easy look up.

Inspired UI

A collection of mobile ui patterns – splashscreens, login, sign up, profiles, chat, walk throughs etc.

Inspired UI show cases an impressive collection of iOS screenshots detailing iPhone UI design patterns.

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Mobile Pattern

A library of iOS and Android screenshots for designers and developers to reference.

Another design pattern collection for you to reference when designing – it also has patterns not seen in Inspired UI e.g. a calendar.

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pttrns

A collection of iOS mobile patterns

With over 1200 patterns, pttrns has pretty much anything you can think of. A great resource.

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meerli

Where exceptional mobile designers connect, show off their designs and promote themselves.

With its sliding screenshots, Meerli is one of the most exciting looking design pattern collections for iOS.

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lovelyui

A collection of mobile UI elements.

The last of the UI pattern collections, lovely embraces a much simpler site design.

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Beautiful Pixels

Beautiful Pixels is a design-focussed publication that showcases some of the best designs, UIs, iOS and mobile apps.

Unlike most of the other sites, Beautiful Pixels is an actual blog (with text!).

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Dribble iPhone

Dribbble is show and tell for designers.

What design inspiration list is completely without Dribbble. Though iOS UI designs on Dribbble tend to have a skeumorphic leaning, it is still one of the best design inspiration sources on the web.

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Conclusion

Well thats seven of the best resources for your iOS design inspirations. If you know any great sources for iOS inspiration, drop a comment below and let us know.