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Where do find UI/UX inspiration for you SaaS product?

Use Dribble and exploring the SaaS tools that I personally use is feeling pretty limited. Know of any great sites that have examples of real SaaS pages i.e. Billing, password resets, team creation etc?

on November 6, 2019
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    Dribbble by itself is actually great for me. Whenever I'm designing a new page or feature for Indie Hackers, I can usually search around on Dribbble and find a few sources of inspiration.

    What I've found really helps with design stuff in general is going deep. I don't just search Dribbble for 5 minutes, I search for an hour or more, and the result is that I find much better stuff. It's the same when I'm tweaking my designs: I don't just go with the first layout or two that I try, but instead I try dozens of layouts and hundreds of iterations and tweaks.

    It's all very tedious and takes more time than I'd like, but it's worth it to get to those breakthroughs. Usually when I can't get a design to look good, it's just because I haven't put in the time.

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      This resonates for sure. Super painful to spend days creating layouts that you end up throwing away but it's the only way I've found of ending up with something half decent.

      I wonder if great designers can skip a bunch of iterations by just 'knowing' what won't work or if they just iterate faster?

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        Having worked with some great designers closely in the past both of these are true for them.

        They have a wealth of experience and a killer intuition to draw upon, meaning they have to do fewer iterations to arrive at an excellent result, and they iterate much quicker due to knowing their tools inside-out.

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        I'll have to ask some of the designers at Stripe that question one of these days, because they're all pretty great imo.

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          I could imagine an AMA with one of them being super interesting.

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    Check out servicebot.io for billing .. it's a UI/UX toolkit for Stripe

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    https://lapa.ninja is my fallback for marketing pages, however I would love to see a more curated collection with deep analysis like Brian Lovin's design details: https://brianlovin.com/design-details/stripe-dashboard-ios

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    Shameless plug for my product which is a growing library of user flow recordings from proven products. There's quite a few SaaS flows on there. For example:

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      Oh awesome I saw this posted a few weeks ago and couldn't find it again. It would be awesome to see this approach extended for in-app pages. Probably harder since you would need accounts on a bunch of services.

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        Try this

        https://hoard.fyi/

        and this

        free-for.dev

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    https://webframe.xyz/categories/payment has a few in it.

    Would love to see a bigger list.

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      This is super helpful. Thanks!

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    A lot has changed in the last years and websites such as mobbin went live!

    "Save hours of UI & UX research with our library of 100,000+ fully searchable mobile & web screenshots."

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    Maybe you should take a look at UI kits? https://productsurch.com/search?query=ux

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    I am actually starting by finding the right theme for my project on ThemeForest. And then this theme is the leading design of your UX and UI.
    I applied this process recently to botmake.io I bought 2 different themes for admin and landing page. And then let these themes to lead UX / UI

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    Semi-hijacking thread. As a developer, what's your design process like?

    I usually sketch a feature on balsamiq, then I immediately jump to a framework like Bulma to implement it. I end up with a framework default looking app which is ok for an mvp usually.

    Do you guys use tools like Sketch etc in your design process? Do you find it saving you time in the long run?

    -Nash

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    Also in my website you can find some design inspiration resources.

    https://www.colorsandfonts.com/designer.html

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    If you're looking for design inspiration from real apps, checkout http://mobbin.design