Inspiration for your web design
Overview
Daniel Scott
Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor
instructorI discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.
Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.
Okay, now we're getting into the design phase. We've done some Sitemaps and Wireframes, and they don't look very sexy, now it's sexy time.
We're going to go through and look at where I get my inspiration, you might have yours. This I find is probably the best of all the sites. It's called 'awwwards', but with www in there. Good gig. And it's got sites of the days, and if you make a brilliant site, send it to them, you might get featured, drive some traffic, and you get sweet designer kudos.
It's just got really pretty stuff, lots and lots of pretty stuff. So just spend some time looking through here, and if you're unsure about what-- you might have a specific look you're looking for, might be in Illustrator, go and have a look at other people's illustrations. You've got to use that little icon there, is it? Yes. Everywhere else, if you click, it just opens up a page in awwwards, which is fine, then it gives people's rankings and stuff, but you want to actually look at the page itself. That's a pretty cool site. Mitch Lana. Sorry, Michelle Lana.
awwards.com is a great site. I use behance.com, another brilliant one, and I just kind of spend my time going through, going over like that, and start kind of appropriating ideas to build something to get a feeling for what I want to work with.
Alright, that's inspiration for your web design.