Zoltan Hosszu - pixel perfect webdesign

Dribbble invite giveaway #2

Remember the Dribbble invite competition from July? Well I’ve got 2 more invites from Dribbble, so here’s your chance to get invited! The rules are the same: you need to submit links to 400×300 images that showcase your skills. All the images have to be 400×300, so they would display what your Dribbble portfolio would look like. Read the original post if you need more information!

The competition will be running for two weeks, between Monday, August 29 and Sunday, September 11. The winners will be announced in this post at Monday, September 12 and will be invited through their e-mail address given in the comments, so make sure to use a working mail address otherwise I will not be able to invite you! You can also leave a link to your Dribbble prospector account, that works as well.

Good luck everyone!

UPDATE: The winners!

Thanks everyone for participating. My friend Peter Eszes, who helped me with judging and I had a hard time choosing the winners but we decided that Steve Pocklington (Dribbble account) and Péter Viszt (Dribbble account) should be invited this time. Make sure to follow them as they are awesome! And follow me on Twitter to get info about the next contest.

GAget – Google Analytics Widget for OS X Dashboard

I was looking for a Google Analytics widget for my dashboard all around the web and to my biggest surprise I only found two that was working: Dashalytics by Rovingrob, and the cleverly named Analytics Widget by Adrian Kenny. The first one has a lot of great features regarding the data but looks aweful, the second one looks nice but doesn’t have many features, so neither of these seemed ideal…

I did a little research on OS X dashboard development and gladly found that all the widgets are developed in HTML, CSS and JavaScript languages, all which I’m really familiar with due to web development. So I started downloading Xcode from the Mac App Store and opened Photoshop to create a layout plan for the widget. The first draft got kind of popular on Dribbble, so I know I was going the right way with it.

Now, couple of days later, ladies and gentlemen I present to you the first version of GAget – Google Analytics Widget for OS X. Download it now!

Want a Dribbble invite? Here’s your chance!

I just scored an invite from Dribbble and I decided to make a little contest for it. Since Dribbble is really a great source for insipration, I would like you to impress me. To participate, you have to do the following: I want you to upload one (or a couple) of 400×300 sized images of your work to a server and leave a comment with the URL(s) down bellow. Make sure to use your real e-mail address cause that’s where I will be contacting you and sending the invite to! You can leave multiple comments with multiple shots, but remember: quality over quantity! The contest will be running for one week only (will end at Saturday, 2011. 07. 16. 13:00) and I will notify the winner via e-mail and I will post a link to his or her Dribbble account when the invitation was successful. Good luck everyone!

(If you put more than two links in your comment, and you can’t see it, don’t worry, it’s normal: the comment will be held for moderation by the WordPress engine, so please give me some time to approve it.)

UPDATE: And the winner is…

Wow, thank you guys for the participation! Almost 40 designers have entered the contest and a lot of great works were submitted, giving me a hard time to judge them. I asked a very good friend of mine Péter Eszes to help me decide. This not only helped me, but made it a much more awesome for one of you guys, since Péter had an invite himself, so actually not one, but TWO of you got invited!

After giving it much thought, the two winners are Syahmi Ismail (Dribbble profile) and Marty Batten (Dribbble profile). Congratulations! The rest of you shouldn’t worry, I will be surely making a contest like this for the next time I get an invite, make sure you follow me at Twitter, so you will not miss it!

My favorite UI shot picks from Dribbble

I’ve always been fascinated by wonderful User Interface elements of some applications. This is one of the many reasons I am using a MacBook running OS X and this is why I believe pixel perfection is one of the most important part of design. As Dribbble is getting updates nearly every month, more and more useful features become available, just like the Buckets feature that makes easy to collect and organize shots that you like into folders that you can share. This actually helped me to pick my favorite UI element shots by far from Dribbble, and here are some of the best.

Once Upon a Time, I Almost Designed a Twitter App by Tyler Galpin

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Design inspiration from Dribbble #2

Here’s the second installation of 400 x 300 pixel shots from Dribbble for you pixel lovers!

Dashboard by Jonathan Moreira

This beautiful user interface design by Jonathan is a project manager site’s first detailed look. I especially love the blue color choice for the selected item in the sidebar.