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Designing Minimalist Software & Dashboard Illustrations

Designing Minimalist Software & Dashboard Illustrations

Have you ever come across one of those trendy, flat illustrations of sofware, dashboards or basically any kind of UI design there is?Well of course you have. They are everywhere. Just take a look at these awesome examples.SlackLoomI have personally designed quite a few of these for various projects, ever since I started dabbling into design. They work amazingly well as hero illustrations or maybe for showcasing features of any type of SaaS.And the best part is that they’re actually really easy to design.Well, my dear reader, today we’re going to design one of these.And it’s not just an illustration of some random, made up software. We’re going to design one based on Spotify’s desktop application.Let’s goSpotify’s user interface is quite minimalistic. There’s really not much going on, which makes it the perfect application to start with.Even if you’re not a full blown designer or illustrator, you will definitely be able to create illustrations like theses. Trust me. It’s really not that hard, and the result can be surprisingly beautiful (and useful).Now, in order to start, you want to make sure you own any of the many UI design tools out there. Here’s a few examples:Adobe XDFigmaInvisionThese are all great and works very similarly to each other. My tool of choice is Adobe XD, since it’s the one I’m the most used to working in.Design analysis & creationWe should probably start by taking a closer look at the application we’re going to base our illustration on.I’ve taken a screenshot of Spotify’s desktop application featuring the amazing album Nurture by Porter Robinson. Take a listen if you haven’t already.By looking at the design, we want to identify the most prominent features of the application, and keep those in mind while creating our illustration.You can probably think of it as a charicature.You don’t want to create a hi-fi, pixel perfect, detailed design. Instead you want to identify whatever makes Spotify Spotify, and exaggerate those features against the less important details.By taking a look at this screenshot, you will probably notice that we have 5 main sections:A dark menu to the leftA dark similar “friend activity bar” to the rightA green header section that features the albums cover art & nameA dark middle section featuring the songs of the albumA dark bar at the bottom, wrapping the main play button as well as the small cover art to the left & volume slider to the right.Mapping out sectionsWhen mapping out these sections “on paper”, I make sure to not pixel-perfectly follow the original design in terms of sizing. They can be slightly larger or smaller, depending on what you feel looks right.Perfection is for when you want to make a production ready design. This is the opposite. This is a fun illustration.After finishing our sections, we can start drawing out the shapes representing the UI elements. In this case it’s mostly text elements and buttons.The top left cornerNotice how I create icons as circles and text blocks as simple boxes. This is enough in order to keep the design as simple as possible.SpacingYou might also notice that I’m placing out small rectangles here and there. I’m using these as spacers.Even though Adobe XD provides lots of rulers and snapping points, having spacers can be really helpful sometimes in order to keep all spacing as consistent as possible.To help with this, you can also rely on some grid spacing system.In this example, I’m following a strict 5pt grid system. Every space should be a multiple of 5 (10, 15, 20 and so on). Read more about grid system in this great guide by Vitsky.Here you can see my finished structure with my UI elements and spacers:This isn’t perfect by any means, but you can already definitely see what I’m going for.That’s all for the first part. Now it’s time to for some colors.ColorsFor designs like these, we want to keep the amount of colors as few as possible. Try to identify what colors makes the application what it is, and stay close to those.For me, it’s the various shades of grey as well as the typical “Spotify green” that makes the application. This is what I came up with:“Now this looks weird” you might think.Well, yeah. We’re not done yet. Be patient my dear reader.Here’s the same design with all spacers removed:Better? Yeah, that’s what I thought.Now we just have to do a few minor changes and it will start to look really good.Here I’ve added colors to each UI element as well as rounded off most sharp corners using the radius settings in Adobe XD.Looks good? Yeah, kinda. Just some small tweaks left.And here’s the final product.The only thing I tweaked was a change of couple colors. I think it looks cool and definitely usable for some project. But you could keep working and make it way better.Here’s a couple examples:This one only has two grey background colors, instead of 4 as the one above.This one has only one grey background color. Cool.Maybe you want to do something crazy and use only the outlines? It looks like a blueprint. Looks kinda interesting.ConclusionsNow you should be able to create some really cool illustrations for your next project.These illustrations fit really well in hero sections of websites, showing off features of a software, or maybe as motion graphics for some sweet animated advertisement videos.Do whatever feels right, and most importantly: don’t try to make it perfect. Perfection is worthless.Bye,Robin 🤙Designing Minimalist Software & Dashboard Illustrations was originally published in Muzli - Design Inspiration on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Marketing Agency Dashboard Dark Mode

Marketing Agency Dashboard Dark Mode

Hey friends, check my new shot for marketing agency in dark mode Press "L" if you like it! Cheers! You want to work with me or just say hello? alexey@savitskiy.design 👈 Also follow me on Behance | Instagram | Facebook

Phobos Dashboard

Phobos Dashboard

Hey guys, I’m working on a fun concept design dashboard for Phobos, Hope you like 🤘 Stay safe and keep productive at home. —————————————————————————————— We're available for new clients. Feel free to reach out if you need any support with your organization hello.phoboscreative@gmail.com

Team management dashboard

Team management dashboard

Team management dashboard :) Please follow me if you like, @[2148329:Lundy] And my team @[2358208:Top Pick] More will be released later, please look forward to it! Hope you like it than press "L" to show some love :)

Management Dashboard

Management Dashboard

We have designed one stop solution for all the management solution like HRMS, Project Management, Recruitment, Candidate, Employee and more Hope you like this. Feel free to share your views on this. Have an awesome idea? We will provide a quick analysis and free proposal for it. Don’t worry, it is secure and confidential. Contact us on http://www.mindinventory.com/inquiry.php Or sales@mindinventory.com

Finance Dashboard

Finance Dashboard

Good morning, Dribbble! 👋 We'd like to present you a couple of tips to create a well structured dashboard including complex data. 1️⃣ Choose a legible font It's clearly one of the most important tips we can give you. Use a font which is legible and can also be used to display numbers properly. 2️⃣ Use colours wisely Choose your colors wisely and take note that dashboards are not meant to be a rainbow. Best practice would be to create a styleguide for various states of your data. 3️⃣ Create visual hierarchy Ask yourself: What's important? What does the user needs to see and what's the primary goal of this dashboard? Make sure to prioritize the key information and be aware of font sizes. 4️⃣ Use the right visualization Be aware that dashboards have the purpose to perceive complex data quickly and the only way you can achieve this goal is by choosing the correct graphs and visualization. 5️⃣ Be a minimalist Sometimes less is more and this applies also for dashboards. We wish you a successful week and check out our blog for interesting and more in-depth articles. ---------- 🖥 We’re available for new design or development projects! Contact us hello@fintory.com ---------- ➡️ FOLLOW OUR TEAM

Opencart - Commercial Dashboard

Opencart - Commercial Dashboard

Hey guys 👋 Press L to like & please don’t forget to follow us! Want similar designs? Available for Hire - contactunopie@gmail.com ---------- Stay connected on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/unopie.designs Skype https://join.skype.com/invite/agxUtUXNSwSh Thanks for watching! 😊

Gym Management: User Dashboard

Gym Management: User Dashboard

Hello! For the last 3-4 months, Our team has been working on a gym/fitness management platform (dashboard and mobile app) for a client. As a part of the process, I get to solve some interesting design problems and did some cool interface design (coming soon). I have been learning a lot since the starting of the process. Based on that experience, I tried to explore some layout/UI designs for gym/fitness related platforms. Want to get a free estimation for your next project? Give us a knock at uideft@gmail.com Follow our team: Dribble

Dashboard

Dashboard

Hola Guys! Another exploration times, learning and practice this thing, I'm super excited to share with you guys. Please Guys share your feedback it's help me a lot. Thanks

Language School Dashboard

Language School Dashboard

Hello friends! This is a dashboard for a foreign language school. Here you can find homework for all groups, see how best to do it and also keep track of your progress in every aspect of the language! Press "L" to show some love! 💜 Follow us on Twitter & Facebook & Instagram You're always welcome to visit our amazing Blog

Students Dashboard 

Students Dashboard 

To avoid wasting time, you need to use it rationally. Regardless of the situation, distance learning is always a good idea as your progress does not depend on location or circumstances 🧐 . The main thing, in this case, is a properly constructed dashboard. We have made a concept for such a product, with the fields where you can see planned classes, mentor's feedback, and overall performance. Visible, accessible, and understandable 🤓. -- ✅ Follow our team

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