Touch This UI

Showcase of beautiful iPhone interfaces curated by Pedro Alejandro Wunderlich Follow @pddro !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-36024508-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();

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The new Wake N Shake Version 3.0. This introduces a whole new social layer so you can wake up and compete with your friends. The UI design was completely custom and designed for gesture-based navigation. Colors palette is friendly on the eyes at night. Full review of the app coming soon. [Disclosure: I designed it.]

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Beautiful Instagram redesign concept video by Stephen M. Levinson.

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Squarespace Note is UI poetry

I'm an avid user of note-taking applications. I'm always jotting down ideas, reminders, phone numbers, etc. So when I came across Squarespace Note, I had to give it a try. It seemed really simple, and if there's one thing you know I love, it's simplicity.

Suqarespace Note's UI is poetry. It's absolutely gorgeous to touch. You type in a beautiful custom font, and it displays cleanly. Everything about the app was done with the uttermost desire for purity.

The app also has some gestures that remove the need for dreaded buttons. Swipe from the right and you display a share menu that lets you send the note to a wide selection of cloud and social services. Swipe from the left and you go back to your library of notes. It's simple, and it works so beautifully. These gestures combined with a series of subtle animations make this Squarespace Note a joy to use.

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Undrip is a beautiful way to get the most juicy content out of your social networks

Designing Undrip must have been an enormous challenge. The app extracts your interests from your social networks and presents the best content from your social feeds, as well as aggregates the best content from the Undrip community. That's a lot of content. So designing an app that would display all this information, and still make it feel uncluttered must have been very difficult.

But the designers of Undrip went further than just making the app a beautiful way to consume content. The app is packed with personality. There are little bits of humour and clever design elements sprinkled across the entire interface. These could have been left out, but were included to give Undrip a very distinct, light-hearted feel. Almost as if your having a conversation with a friend.

The tiny icons, the funny text tips, the verbs it uses on its buttons (drip, undrip, downpour, flow, ripples), and a dude wearing a sweater who waits patiently while the content is curated--little details that make the interface a total pleasure to touch. And fun too.

As you use the app more and more, you discover wonderful design gems. Everything from the settings menu to the sharing screen shows a meticulous attention to detail. The app uses a custom font throughout (looks like Dispatch, but I might be wrong). You can even use a swipe-right gesture to reveal a menu that lets you quickly switch content types.

Congratulations to the Undrip team for designing such a wonderful way to consume the best of the web.

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Over is a beautiful way to place typography over pictures

Over embraces incredibly simple, yet functional design. But they didn't just strip down everything to a bare, they were creative about it. They designed an "option wheel" that allows the user to easily edit the text over the photo, change its size and colour, and save that picture to the camera roll. It's very intuitive and a bit reminiscent of the old iPod's scroll wheel we used to know and love.

The amount of font options is just perfect and fit well with most picture styles. I've enjoyed using this app to add beautiful typography on my pictures.

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Dolphin Browser for iPhone is the most beautiful way to experience mobile internet

Google Chrome took my heart a few weeks ago with its lightweight, minimalist design and great handle on tabs. But a few days ago, my heart was stolen by Sequoia-backed Dolphin Browser. Simply, the most beautiful way to experience the internet on a phone.

If you think Chrome's handle on tabs was good, wait until you put your fingers on Dolphin. A quick swipe to the left reveals all your open tabs in list view. It's gorgeous. And it's out of the way. Your bookmarks are a swipe to the right, which you can reorder as you see fit.

These two mechanisms give way to the wonderful experience that Dolphin provides: You're always browsing full screen. Functional design at its best. Everything gets out of the way, even the URL bar dodges out of the way the second you start scrolling. The browser disappears, letting you consume your content quickly and in wonderful full screen. 

You're always a swipe away from everything you need. Scroll up a bit and the URL bar peeks down, in case you need it. Want to change tabs? Swipe left, tap, and your in. At one point, I had 7 tabs open, it never felt crowded the way Chrome feels once you have too many tabs open. The wonderful design allows tab switching like never before.

Simply, a beautiful way to internet. Get it now.

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Tiny Post is a beautiful way to create and share captioned pictures

Tiny Post is a lot of fun. But under all that wonderful  user-generated content lies a fantastic interface that makes creating "tiny posts" a total pleasure.

It uses a side-to-side navigation style popularized by Path. On one side you have your user settings, and on the other you have the apps content. Typography is rendered beautifully on top of pictures. You get three lines to type a few words. The limit works as pictures never feel like they're overwhelmed by all the text. I also love the beautiful camera icon on the bottom left corner. It's out of the way, but accessible at all times. Good job to lead designer Melissa Miranda.

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ChainCal is a beautiful way build habits out of you daily goals

ChainCal did something I love in an iPhone app: a single-screen experience. Everything you need to create goals, check them as done for the day, and have a glance on your performance is contained within the only view available. It's smart design. And thoughtful towards the user.

Typography is the focus here. Your current streak is displayed elegantly right beside your best streak. Soft grays, textures are used as the app's background and the always pleasant vermilion is used as the accent. Overall, a very pleasant and beautiful visual experience.

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Weather Neue is the most beautiful weather app I've ever touched

I could write a lot about this app, but before you go on reading about it, watch the video and see how beautiful and simple it is.

I smiled when I first opened Weather Neue. Everything about this app screams attention to detail. The design shows that the designers invested a lot of time, effort and love to make this app a total pleasure to use. It's a rare, rare experience to find an app with this much dedication.

Large numbers in beautiful typography start animating themselves while the app searches for my current location. When it detects my location, with finess and elegance, the app quickly displays the weather, and a three-day forecast. 

This app has earned it's place on my coveted home screen. Congratulations to the creators. In one word, beautiful.

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iA Writer for iPhone is beautiful in the most minimalistic kind of way

Beautiful user experience design stems from understanding the needs of the user, then designing just enough to satisfy those needs. Writer did just that by designing a clean canvas and a clever keyboard so you can type long-form with minimal effort.

iA Writer for iPhone has no settings tab. Why would it? There's no hidden treasure to find within its interface. No extra buttons to navigate around. All you'll find here is a fantastic way to write, and write with great pleasure.

The way iA Writer is beautiful is its smart keyboard design. Commonly used keys like the coma, period, dash and colon are included in the main ABC view, so your thumbs don't have to sweat extra typing a coma. There's also a pair of extremely useful arrow keys so you can move the cursor left or right to edit your text. That means less time using that magnifying glass to add a letter that you missed--more time typing your imagination's content.

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Journalized for iPhone is the most beautifully simple way to keep a journal

Writing down simple journal entries is a very natural thing to do on the iPhone--it's always with you when things happen. The problem is, there's not many apps that provide a beautiful environment and a quick way to do write journal entries. Thankfully, Andrew Hart took it upon himself to create this minimalistic journal app that makes it a pure joy to keep a diary.

The interface is just what it needs to be: simple. You have two main elements: a timeline of all your journal entries, and a "plus" button to add a new thought. What more do you need? The timeline displays beautifully in an eternal scroll, but you can move quickly from day to day through the calendar. 

I'm personally not enthusiastic about this design fad of adding real-life textures to design elements within the app, like wood and leather. But thankfully the main timeline is the fucus here, and you'll quickly forget about everything else around it.

Well done.

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Pocket is the most beautiful way to read articles on the iPhone

Pocket is absolutely beautiful. It extracts the text, images and video out of a web article and reformats it beautifully for you to consume in complete bliss. The typography is clean, which is formated in a way that feels like your eyes are dancing from word to word.

But where Pocket's magic shines, is the interaction. When surfing the web on you desktop, just click on the bookmarklet on your browser to "pocket" the article. Then later that day, when you're on the sofa with a cup of tea, you open Pocket, and like magic, there's all your articles, beautifully formated, ready to be read in pleasure.

Beautiful.

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Repeat Timer - Beautifully simple timer to be more productive

Repeat Timer is immediately familiar the second you open it, but uses custom interface elements that makes it beautiful. The numbers are large, emphasizing what's important to the user. Setting up timers, their intervals, and how many times you want it to repeat takes three taps. The entire user experience feels right, easy and beautiful. I use it to set up work/break intervals that's lead me to be more productive without forgetting to stand up and take a break. 

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Any.do is a beautiful, typography-based to-do list

Any.do caught my eye because of its incredibly clean interface. It's typography based, meaning, the design elements doing the heavy lifting is the strategic use of typography. You can drag and drop items between today, tomorrow, this week and later. This makes organizing all your to-dos in credibly simple and quick. Love this app.

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The new Windows Phone 8 homescreen feels like one disgusting mess.

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Piictu is the most beautiful way to talk with pictures

Piictu is a really fun app to take themed pictures with others around the world. But more than that, it's a design achievement in many ways. The interface literally gets out of your way as soon as you start scrolling through pictures for a full-screen experience. Finding fun themes and joining them with your own picture is simple, intuitive and a complete pleasure to do. 

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Minu is the most beautiful kitchen timer I've ever used

There's nothing extra. No features to distract you from the core app. Minu is a kitchen timer. That's it. But a beautifully designed one at that. The dial is turned to set the time, then just press the only button on screen to start or stop the timer. What's beautiful is that there's a visual representation of the percent of time consumed, so you can tell how much time there's left from a far.

Gorgeous.