It’s show and tell day, or at least sharing day at BrainFuel. By popular request (well, one person anyways), we want to know from you what your favorite web apps are and especially the ones with the best user interface… and you have to tell us why. Leave a comment, and a link, in this post and if we get enough interest I’ll do a follow up post some time soon with my thoughts.
6 responses to “Share: Best Designed GUI for Web Apps”
This app has a killer interface. http://www.sugarcrm.com/home/
I have no use for it, but it rocks.
I can’t give a single favorite, but my web-app mentor is lukew…his nice collection can be found here:
http://www.lukew.com/portfolio/web_applications.asp
…i also recommend poking around his resources section and reading some of the philosophies behind designing a web-application.
http://www.lukew.com/resources/links_webapps.html
http://www.lukew.com/resources/articles.asp
-j
I’m a fan of apps by Lukew.
http://www.lukew.com/portfolio/web_applications.asp
…I also agree with a lot of his writings and philosophy on how thier design considerations here:
http://www.lukew.com/resources/links_webapps.html
http://www.lukew.com/resources/articles.asp
…stupid delayed comment posting moderation…srry
I think a good GUI can be defined in two ways:
#1: Good organization (naming of pages and functions and general layout)
#2: Graphical theme and buttons, navigation bars, ease of which you can get around and do things.
Some of my favorites:
#1: WordPress – wordpress.org (maybe the GUI isn’t all glossy but it’s very usable)
#2: ProductCart – productcart.com – Very nice interface and easy to get around.
#3: Gmail – ah, gmail.com – Gosh, I mean, of everything I’ve used in recent years this thing is the best.
#4: Oddpost – oddpost.com – haven’t seen it recently but it was really cool years ago.
#5: Google’s AdWords system (unlike Overture)
Some of the worst systems I have ever seen:
#1: Overture
#2: PCRecruiter – pcrecruiter.com
#3: X-Cart Administrative panel – x-cart.com
i really like the project management software basecamp by 37 signals. they keep it simple.