Web & Patterns is a website that collects and displays screenshots of interface design patterns.
The patterns are very well categorized from forms to paginations or typography to breadcrumbs.
Every screenshot has a short definition that mentions "why it was added to the gallery" & anyone can share their thoughts about the screenshots.
Web & Patterns is a very nice resource for anyone who wants to quickly browse for an inspiration on a specific design element.
Repper is a free web-based application for creating patterns from any image.
It is possible to upload a custom image or use a random image that Repper provides to start using the application.
At this point, the only thing to do is to start dragging a resizable box where it displays the generated pattern instantly.
The created patterns can be saved or downloaded. And, the saved ones can be browsed by other users.
While browsing the gallery, you can vote patterns & sort them according to their popularity, view numbers, etc.
Free Stock Textures is a fresh website presenting 680+ high quality textures that are ready to download.
It presents totally new textures as all the photos used are taken by the website owners: Paul Wozniak and Eva Sajdak.
Textures are very well-categorized like grunge, metal, stone & best of all, they can be browsed by color as well.
They can be used on both free & commercial use (for any type of artwork).
MephoBox is a website displaying quality website interfaces with a well-categorized presentation.
MephoBox is free to use but anyone can register & add new designs to the collection.
It is definitely a nice & growing inspiration resource for any web designer.
Bomomo is a Flash JavaScript drawing application which is not totally under your control.
With some moving objects, you can choose between different object & animation types and it will draw figures due to your selections and mouse movements.
Bomomo works only in Firefox.
It is a very different application that can create random graphics which can be used in patterns or textures or just to be inspired from them.
On the other hand, if you would like to check some beautiful work built with Flash & randomness, you must definitely check the portfolio of Joshua Davis who uses random algorithms within Flash to create professional designs.
Backgrounds, patterns can easily change the total look & feel of a website.
Squidfingers is sharing 150+ patterns that can be used in our designs.
Click to check them out.
Colourlovers.com is a website where you can find lots of user created colors, palettes & patterns. Download them easily, share the ones you have or ask for opinions.
There is also lots of information about colour trends, creating a colour and so..
