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The best User Interface Designers on Earth
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User Interface designers are that rare breed of individuals that build those beautiful layouts that we spend 50 to 65% of our lives staring at. Some of them are like rock stars in the design communities and some of them are obscured behind corporate non-disclosure agreements that will make seasoned attorneys cringe in fear. Their work may probably never be seen in the public domain.
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These one in a 100 million digital artists listed in this list of the best user interface designers will be updated weekly as we continue our search for the true top 10 user interface designers and data visualisation experts in the world.
This rising User Interface design super-star has designed some simply eye-watering works.
He has been designing for only 4 years and has gained experience working alongside visionaries ranging from start up founders to Googlers (the team at Google, Palo Alto).
He is on steady rise on Dribbble with almost half a million views to his credit.
This Australian-born User Interface Designer created what has held the record on Behance as the most viewed project of all time. His Facebook User Interface redesign has been viewed more than half a million times.
His version of what Facebook could look like has been appreciated 25 000 times. He has been operating as an independant UX consultant for industry big wigs like Sony and couple other Hollywood Movie houses.
This disarmingly handsome user interface designer from Ukraine does not only have the looks of a hollywood actor.
He is awesome. He is an art director, graphic designer, motion designer, architect.
His work on UI Design is the of the most viewed on Dribbble, garnering close to one million views, 935 755 to be exact.
He is one of the most the most appreciated and viewed designers on Behance with more than 600 000 views on his portfolio items. Sergey Tubik Manufactory on Behance
This soft-spoken UI and Data Visualization demi-god is inspired by Carl Frech, Erich Schöls and Robert Murdoch.
We are just surprised that he is inspired by any one at all!
Has garnered very every close to 2 million views on Behance alone. He has more than 100 000 followers on Behance, alone. + Has more than 1.2 million views on Dribble alone.
This 30 year-old User Interface guru has been been experimenting with graphic design since the tender age of sixteen, hails from Bucharest, Romania.
He has been working on logos, interfaces, layouts, prints and … visual representation for more than 13 years. He is a freelance graphic designer, an architect and an urban planner. He is the second most viewed user interface designer on Dribble with a whopping 1.7 million views to his portfolio items after joining just two years ago.
Masters of the User Interface universe and wizards of 3D iconography and typography, we could spend 2 hours describing Creative Dash! He also excels in the field of user experience and user interface, namely, designing and developing websites and mobile applications for others to improve user experience.
He has been providing graphic and multimedia design services, namely, designing mobile application icons, 3D animations for more than 10 years. He is the current reigning undisputed Dribbble champion with a mind-boggling view count of more than 4.3 million in the last 2 years alone!
His record of 5 000 views on portfolio items per day is currently un-beaten on Dribbble together with his insanely huge following of a massive 33 000 followers on Dribbble. His Behance following is also quite astounding with an astonishing view count of almost half a million in less than 2 years.
Creative Dash on Behance on Dribbble
He is the User Interface Designer most known for his Feltron reports, a data visualization wizard. He currently works for Facebook. He was one of the lead designers of Facebook’s timeline. Rumor has it that he did it himself.
He is the author of many Personal Annual Reports that weave numerous measurements into a tapestry of graphs. His most recent product is Reporter, an iPhone app designed to record and visualize subtle aspects of our lives.
His work is a part of the permanent collection at MoMA. He has also been profiled extensively by major publications like the Wall Street Journal, Wired and Good Magazine and recognized as one of the 50 most influential designers in America by Fast Company. He is also rumored to have designed the famous Facebook Timeline.
Feltron Reporter App Reporter App
Mike Matas is currently not just a user interface designer but is the Design Lead for Paper, a new app from Facebook. He co-founded Push Pop Press, a digital publishing company that created Al Gore’s interactive book Our Choice. He helped design the Nest Learning Thermosta. He worked at Apple where I designed user interfaces and artwork for the iPhone, the iPad, and Mac OS X. He also cofounded Delicious Monster, a software company that created the book cataloging app Delicious Library. He recently worked with the spanish shoe company Preventi to design a new line of shoes the Mike Matas Global Nomads.
Mike Matas Facebook Facebook Paper
Oh, and one more thing…
This programming and User Interface design whizz kid is something of a prodigy. He is simply phenomenal. But don’t let my big words intimidate you. He is not just a designer — he is a visionery. While at Apple, he designed the initial user interface concepts for iPad and iPod Nano. He invented features for Mac OS X Lion. He has worked with designers and engineers from all parts of Apple. He has won the Apple Design Award.
According to Huffington Post Review:
“He transforms the act of reading into something totally new.”
Most impressive are the charts and data, which can be played with in ways that make the info vastly more approachable than it might be in static form. One word — simply awesome.
You can find some of his personality at: Worry Dream
In conclusion
We spent the last 48 hours searching for not only the best designers of our generation, but the ones who inspire the designers that inspire us in turn.
We are talking about the stuff that creates design legends here.
These guys create stuff that inspired me to become a designer as well. An I sincerely believe that when a human excels in their art, it is only fitting that they get recognition — I am only ever so honored to have witnessed these top 9 best UI designers in the world and present them to you.
We built a new UI for Roadi in 48 hours and the follow-up story on how we did it has been viewed a record-shattering 70 000 times over the internet. Roadi Story
