• 23 Feb




    Web Apps are popping up everywhere. Five years or so ago, we could live without them, but as the internet has evolved we use them more and more in our daily lives.

    We have put together a great compilation of beautiful web application interfaces.

    The web applications that were selected to be part of this showcase are based on usability, simplicity, colors and overall layout.

    Please note that WDD was not compensated in any way to review these apps.

    Feel free to comment and add links to other excellent web UI designs in the comments area below. Enjoy!

    Jamiq

    Jamiq is a tool that lets you monitor the webs top search engines and social media websites in every language. It’s the world’s conversation on one dashboard.

    Jamiq App Interface

    Jamiq App Interface

    Jamiq App Interface


    FreshBooks

    FreshBooks allows freelancers and small businesses to track time and invoice clients, fast.

    Freshbooks App Interface

    Freshbooks App Interface


    Campaign Monitor

    Campaign Monitor is a great email marketing app for designers and their clients. You can create, track and manage your subscribers.

    Campaign Monitor App Interface

    Campaign Monitor App Interface

    Campaign Monitor App Interface


    CrazyEgg

    CrazyEgg is a web app that enables you to track where people are clicking on a website.

    CrazyEgg App Interface

    CrazyEgg App Interface


    MailChimp

    MailChimp is an email marketing app that provides both free and paid options for users to design and track email marketing campaigns.

    MailChimp App Interface

    MailChimp App Interface


    Donor Tools

    Donor Tools have a top notch app that allows non profit organizations and charities to track donations and raise more money.

    Donor Tools App Interface


    Designer Pages

    A free social web application that gives people easy to use search options to find certain products dealing with architecture and interior design.

    Designer Pages App Interface

    Designer Pages App Interface


    Wufoo

    Wufoo makes creating web forms fast, easy and fun. Wufoo allows you to build registration forms, contact forms, invitations and even online surveys.

    Wufoo App Interface

    Wufoo App Interface

    Wufoo App Interface

    Wufoo App Interface

    Wufoo App Interface


    OneHub

    OneHub is a beautiful project management system. You can send files and collaborate with other people.

    Onehub App Interface

    Onehub App Interface

    Onehub App Interface


    Freckle

    Freckle is a well designed app for time tracking. Freckle helps you see how long you’ve been working, what time, how many days, what’s the billable time and what others are doing.

    Freckle App Interface


    Authentic

    Authentic is an easy to use customer relationship management application for small businesses and freelancers.

    Authentic App Interface


    Pulse

    Pulse lets you easily manage everything about your small business. From projects to finance and files to report.

    Pulse App Interface

    Pulse App Interface

    Pulse App Interface


    Wistia

    Wistia is an easy to use web app that allows video sharing and tracking to businesses.

    Wistia App Interface


    Icebrrg Light CMS

    Light CMS is a friendly content management system built for designers and their clients.

    Icebrrg Light CMS App Interface


    Snap Pages

    Snap Pages is a web app that provides tools for anyone to create a website using simple drag and drop functionality.

    Snap Pages App Interface

    Snap Pages App Interface


    Box

    Box provides simple online collaboration to individuals and businesses.

    Box App Interface


    Mint

    Mint is a free personal finance app that allows people to manage their money.

    Mint App Interface

    Mint App Interface

    Mint App Interface

    Mint App Interface

    Mint App Interface


    ZenDesk

    ZenDesk provides an amazing customer support ticket system to websites and businesses.

    ZenDesk App Interface


    Harvest

    Harvest is the all in one business app. With Harvest you can track time, invoice your clients, log expenses and manage revenue, all through a sleek interface.

    Harvest App Interface

    Harvest App Interface

    Harvest App Interface

    Harvest App Interface


    iPlotz

    iPlotz allows you to create clickable navigation mockups for prototyping websites and apps.

    iPlotz App Interface

    iPlotz App Interface


    HootSuite

    HootSuite is a professional Twitter client that allows you to manage multiple Twitter accounts, schedule Tweets and track your success.

    HootSuite App Interface

    HootSuite App Interface


    PollDaddy

    PollDaddy allows to engage your audience by creating beautiful polls and surveys.

    PollDaddy App Interface

    PollDaddy App Interface

    PollDaddy App Interface


    Compiled exclusively for WDD by Andy Johnson, a freelance designer and developer living in South England. He currently freelances via his web design studio Pixeno, and he’s also working on his web app called Authentic. You can follow him on Twitter @Andy92.

    Which interface do you like best and why? Do you use any great web apps?



    • http://www.benhomie.com Ben

      How about SUBERNOVA? :) http://www.subernova.com

    • http://www.designlint.com Zach

      These are some great interfaces. Thanks!

    • http://www.produktivzone.ch Produktivzone

      great list! I definetely love the designs of mint.com

    • http://newelementdesigns.com Don

      Mint does an incredible job of displaying a mass amount of data.

    • http://benthinkin.net Ben Gremillion

      Interesting how so many web apps use the same formula, e.g. logo & tabs (usually tabs, not links) at the top left, user options on the right, large sans-serif titles with white space, and wide, information-rich sidebars.

      I wonder if design drives convention, vise-versa, or both? How many ways can a given app be designed and maintain usability?

    • http://www.iskimpixels.com/ damian

      nice list! and what about http://www.myclientbase.com/ ;)

    • http://www.thatdeadpixel.com Mike

      dailyburn.com is a good one….

    • Hendryx

      Hey!,
      Very great apps!! but if think http://kleophatra.org <– kleophatra CMS also is well worth to put on the list ;) .
      Cheers!,
      Hendryx.

    • http://inspiredm.com/ Catalin

      The new Qhub has an awesome interface as well http://qhub.com

    • http://zootool.com Bastian Allgeier

      You should give http://zootool.com a try.

    • http://www.icoretech.org Claudio Poli
    • Federico Viticci

      Definitely agree with the Zootool suggestion, great webapp with a delicious UI.

    • RoaldA

      Awsome!

    • http://www.bluefaqs.com Shawn Ramsey

      While they were all great examples, Jamiq, Wistia and Mint stood out the most to me. Nice roundup!

    • http://sexidesign.com Melody

      I didn’t previously know about hoot suite, which is great because now I have a place for all my other twitter accounts..and Pulse sounds like a great contribution to any new business.. :)

    • http://www.evanblack.com Evan

      I love Notable’s interface – http://www.notableapp.com/

    • http://www.gosquared.com/ James Gill

      You might like LiveStats if you’re liking the apps in this list. It’s a more minimal interface but we’re pretty proud of it: http://www.gosquared.com/livestats/ Also agree that ZooTool is sweet!

    • http://www.velorastudios.com Bryan McAnulty

      Nice list. Mint.com always stood out to me. Basecamp and Activecollab have great interfaces too.

    • Evan Jones

      Loved this list. Companies like Mint (recently acquired by Intuit) make me smile whenever I use their interface. Great interfaces like these are one of the many reasons why I love the internet.

    • Blaine Morely

      I’m surprised Zavanda.com is not on this list. Little known but getting decent recognition.

    • http://www.sunarlim.com Michael Sunarlim

      The Invoice Machine (http://www.invoicemachine.com) is one of my favorites for simple interface.

    • James

      Neat list! I also like the UI of Feedity – http://feedity.com

    • http://ilifebelt.com Paginas web Guatemala

      CrazyEgg is the best! Google Analytics People should learn from them!

    • http://piczoom.net piczoom

      very useful web applications and well designed too.
      thank you for collecting them in one post.

    • http://www.socialwaver.com Chiranjeevi M

      That’s a wonderful list of Interface Collection. This would be a quick source of inspiration for many UI designers. Thanks!

    • http://www.deskaway.com Priyanka D

      Good list. A web interface needs to be intuitive to use hence in a way similar to past designs that people are already using but also new and refreshing!

    • http://loneplacebo.com Tony

      Google Wave is also pretty. Though slow. :/

    • http://www.webtwist.de Webwist (media design)

      Great selection of interfaces… my favourite is Campaign Monitor – well structured, nice charts… thx

    • http://www.sportcasual.com/jeff/ Bert

      Where’s the love for 37signals?
      Basecamp and Campfire deserve some propers. Plus, they’re lightweight and responsive, unlike many of the ones listed here.

    • http://blog.karolzielinski.com Karol

      Great collection. I was looking for something like that. Thanks a lot.

    • http://www.adslviettel.com viettel

      Thanks for your great collection list. And so, i have made it a digg!

    • http://www.hotgloo.com Wolf

      For prototyping and wireframing also check out recently launched, webbased HotGloo!

    • http://www.dzinepress.com Dzinepress

      really helping stuff, most of these and really useful for all web users.

    • http://projectbubble.com/ Stu Green

      Of course, I’ve got to plug my project management for freelancers web app: http://projectbubble.com (does invoicing too)

    • http://danzambonini.com Dan Zambonini

      I know, I’m biased, but the Amaxus Web CMS interface is frickin’ beautiful: http://www.amaxus.com

    • http://www.kaynatsoft.com Parvez

      Missing http://buysellads.com/ ! Its a very good apps.
      thanks

    • Edison Leon

      Awesome list, it’s time to try new things, I’ll be give them I try, specially to crazyegg

    • http://www.codesquid.co.uk Codesquid

      Some very nice, clean, modern interfaces here! A really inspiration for anyone designing a web based interface!

    • http://www.pushpsds.com Glenn Sorrentino

      At our agency, we use Quickbase and Basecamp… a lot. They both work really well.

    • samson

      these are all ‘business’ or ‘numbers’ related
      here is a fun one i found

      http://fightstick.fakesite.com/
      this is for creating joystick and button movements via web app

      it even supports playback
      http://fightstick.fakesite.com/fightstick.php?moves=2700|Stick|down,2800|Q|press,2900|Q|release,3000|A|press,3100|A|release,3200|E|press,3300|E|release,3400|Stick|left,3500|Stick|release-down,3600|Stick|release-left,3700|DS|press|kex,3800|D|release,3800|S|release&skin=-splatter

    • samson

      sorry, the above link for playback was broken by post
      here is a tinyurl version

      http://tinyurl.com/sakurapoke

    • http://twitter.com/dpencilpusher DPencilPusher

      nice round-up! also check out:

      http://listen.grooveshark.com,
      http://www.newspond.com,
      http://www.shelfari.com

      all web-apps with great UI

    • http://www.designingwebinterfaces.com Theresa Neil

      Great list!
      We identified 50 more (some overlap) at
      http://www.insideria.com/2009/09/50-most-usable-rias.html

    • Marlowe

      Great list! Quite a few I’d never heard of but could really help my small business. Box.net is pretty ubiquitous for sharing/collaborating but, as a designer/film maker, i’ve been using ContentCube – http://contentcube.com/ – which is a more specialised file sharing and presentation app for creative professionals.

      It has great support for multiple media file formats and versions, and a really slick customer presentation mode.

    • http://ansh.thisisitonline.info/ Amberly | Web Designer

      Nice share… Thanks for the collection of web app UI

      Mint Rocks…

    • http://www.yourversion.com Tilla Torrens

      Great list, thank you for the extensive example of nice UI design! It would be great to also see a few bullets on what design elements really stand out for you and why. Sorry if creating more work for you ;) I’m not a UI designer but as Marketing Manager, I have been in charge of putting together wireframes for a website redesign in the past, and examples like this with elements that you can reference are a great help!

    • http://www.joomlart.com Hung Dinh

      It is a pity the none of the most popular opensource systems such as Joomla, Drupal, Magento is not listed :(

      They have great system but they are not really great in showing it :)

    • http://www.kaplang.com/blog Kaplang

      This is a massive list thanks :) I use hootsuite myself and also mail chimp :)

    • RJHBookLinux

      Great post, thanks for sharing! While still in public beta, and requires an invite, someone should mention Threadsy (https://www.threadsy.com/)

      Another that is well known, but still warrants some credit is the good old, MobileMe.

      Thanks again for the post, have it bookmarked forever!

    • http://www.webdepend.co.uk Tom Batey

      Great list of good interfaces, I use 4 or 5 of those apps already and a couple more are on my ‘to try’ list. I am a keen user of Freshbooks, Hootsuite and Campaign Monitor but am going to give iPlotz and Mint a go too now.

      Thanks for sharing.

    • http://www.webstuffshare.com Hidayat Sagita

      Love SUBERNOVA’s UI! :D

    • http://www.ukpb.co.uk/ Buy My House

      What a implausible and mind boggling collection.

    • http://www.meihua.info Phil Ren

      oh, i love this post.

    • http://www,groomdigital.com Warren

      Great list! Going to try out a few of them now. I can def vouch for Campaign Monitor, clients are always so impressed!

    • arnold

      Another great post from WDD and thanks Andy for this stuff..
      This is a great reference for other web designers..
      :)

    • Ken

      Great list! What about http://postageapp.com?

    • http://espresso-online.info Jonathan

      you forgot about 37signals – they were the pioneers of great interface design.
      great collection though. ive been looking for a showcase of web app interfaces for a while now.

    • Thomas

      I use clicktail, it helps me know what is happening on my site and its heatmaps and videos show me i can increase my conversions

    • r_jake

      Wow 3599 for a 5 page website (freshbooks) – I need to start putting my prices up!

    • http://www.gothinkdesign.com/index.php Claire

      You may want to check out project bubble a simple project management and invoicing system plus it looks very cool!

    • Sarah

      Great post, very usefull! :)

    • http://www.jonathlee.com/ Jonath Lee

      Great reference in the right timing. I was in the midst of designing UI for a web apps, this come pretty handy.

      I was wondering if this post will also be updated with some of the web apps UI design in the next post.

    • http://www.cooljaz124.com cooljaz124

      hey cool…wat about UI design of Fedena ? http://www.fedena.com

    • http://thepixelio.com bhus

      Great collection, thanks for sharing!

      You may also check out Jobrary (http://jobrary.com), has a very good UI.
      Its a great and simple Portfolio and Resume management app.

    • http://lakeside.com.np/ Lakeside Techies

      The application interfaces are quite inspiring. Thanks.

    • http://www.shubelal.com shubelal

      Nice collection, its very inspiring interfaces,
      thanks you very much for sharing :)

    • http://www.psdstyle.net chuckles

      It’s so difficult to design an eye pleasing UI design. Especially for “boring” items such as forms and mundane apps.

      Nice job

    • http://www.javierparra,mx Javier

      Great showcase I’d live to see an analysis of what makes a great web app interface. :-)

    • http://www.minisprout.com Ryan

      Great list, and I agree with #56 that postage is another app to add. To view new web apps each day, visit Mini Sprout (http://www.minisprout.com).

    • http://www.robbyhsu.behance.net Robert Hsu

      I think the popular salesforce.com definitely deserve a mention here…. I learnt quite a few thing just studying the UI.

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