Author: Preshit Deorukhkar

Oh sweet holy lord of Pixels, what have we got here!? Who knew something as mundane as scrolling a list could be turned into something so beautiful? Hakim El Hattab, the Lead Interactive Developer at Qwiki has put together a collection of lists having various scroll effects achieved through CSS/JS. There are eleven different scroll effects to experience, and each one is better than the other. From the description, Hakim says: Decided it was time for some CSS tinkering again and ended up creating this set of CSS3 scrolling styles. Not intended for any practical use but the visuals are…

I’m sorry, but I cannot resist starting this article with “It’s finally here!”. Instagram, arguably the most popular photo app on iOS with over 30 million registered users and with users uploading over 5 million photos every day, has finally landed for Android devices. The design of the app borrows heavily from the recently updated iOS version, so there’s nothing new to talk about, but the quality of design is still many times better compared to most other Android apps on Google play. Similar to the iOS app, Instagram features tabs at the bottom instead of having them on top…

Update: Yes, yes! While most of your caught it, a few of our readers did in fact think that either our blog was hacked or we were out of our minds. Should’ve been obvious, the post was published on April 1st (April Fool’s Day) and on a Sunday, something that we very rarely do around here. While writing about all the beautifully designes apps here on Beautiful Pixels, many a times, we come across apps that push the boundaries of how “sexy” the UI of an app can really be. Day after day, these gorgeous apps on the App Store…

Unlike iOS, there are only a few developers that have churned out beautifully designed apps for the Android platform. doubleTwist is one such company, who launched ‘doubleTwist Player*’ — a beautiful music player app for Android on the Google Market a few years ago. Well, they’re at it again with the launch of their second app today, which is quite possibly the most beautiful alarm clock app for Android. Designed by Sebastiaan de With — one of the best designers we’ve had the privilege of speaking to, the doubleTwist Alarm Clock features some exceptional pixel love. The app features a…

Here’s Paper — a beautiful app for iPad. And it’s one of those apps that we ask you to stop reading this article right now and go grab it from the App Store right away. Paper is a marvelously good iPad app, designed to bring out the creative genius in you. Paper is essentially an iPad app that brings a set of tools and some notebooks to play with. How you put them to use is left to you. Paper makes it extremely easy to capture your ideas onto the paper in various forms. The engine used in the app…

When I bought the first-gen iPad back in April 2010, it changed the way I consumed my news every morning. To be able to hold the device in my hand and quickly browse through numerous sources as I sipped on my coffee with the other hand was nothing short of extraordinary back then. Sure, I could still do this with my iPhone 3GS, but looking at a glorious 9.7″ screen and scrolling through the article text felt… yes, magical. One of my favorite apps on the iPad was The Early Edition by Glasshouse apps. It was a beautiful app that…