Author: Preshit Deorukhkar

Preshit Deorukhkar is the former Editor-in-Chief of Beautiful Pixels. He is now a Freelance Consultant, Principal at iXyr Media & SharpShutter Media. You can reach him on Twitter @preshit

Getting critical feedback is an integral part of any design process. It always helps getting a different view about your work, and it goes a long way in improving the next iteration. If you’re a designer or part of a design team, then there’s a long list of phrases that you typically keep on using while communicating with your team members. The folks at NFN Labs have put together this lovely sticker part titled ‘Design Feedback’ for this very thing. Available as a iMessage sticker pack, Design Feedback gives you ready-to-use stickers for commonly used phrases. You have terms like…

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The world is full of fascinating colors, isn’t it? I was watching a video about the auroras just a few minutes ago and while being mesmerized by the incredible array of colorful lights, I wondered if I should take a screenshot from the video just to use those colors in a design somewhere. I had the exact same thoughts while walking around in the Mughal gardens of Jammu & Kashmir. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a live color picker that could instantly tell you colors? Cone is exactly that. Cone is a delightful little app by Kushagra Agarwal that…

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Klok 1.2 Klok is a beautifully crafted time zone and world clock app for iPhone that we first wrote about back in 2015. Back then, it was one of the few apps to add a meaningful Today Widget that displayed the world clocks in your Notification Center. It also featured a lovely & elegant UI that instantly delighted us. However, there were no updates to the app since 2015, until today. Version 1.2 released today updates the app with an iOS 10 style Today Widget, making it similar to your other favorite widgets. This update also adds Haptic Feedback and…

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Managing tasks, files, projects and clients is nobody’s idea of a good time, but Pagico will make your life easier by letting you manage all these things in one elegant package. It is one of the few apps that combines task and data management into one easy-to-use package. Imagine having boarding passes right next to travel itineraries, or design drafts together with meeting notes. Then, see the big picture of your workload in interactive flowcharts compiled automatically from all your projects and contacts. Easily browse and archive your projects even when there are hundreds of them. With the carefully crafted…

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iShows TV has been my favorite tv show tracker for iOS for a really long time now. I started using it in mid-2013 and since then, the app has continuously improved its feature-set, especially with version 2.0 that came out in 2015. Today, the app has been updated to version 2.9 that introduces a real nifty feature of the app — ‘Watch Now!’. ‘Watch Now!’ enables you to see where the particular TV Show can be purchased or streamed directly from. The app supports a bunch of services across 16 different countries — US, Uk, Canada, Australia, France, Brazil, Germany,…

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We’re back with another week of The Roundup, our weekly series that highlights and showcases some incredible animations, mockups, illustrations that we come across during the week. This time, we’re bringing an incredible roundup of some lovely empty states in apps: We hope you enjoy The Roundup this week and as always, if you have any feedback or suggestions, we’re always eager to hear them. Note: This post includes animated GIFs, so it’ll take a while to load completely. The Roundup is powered by NFN Labs — a design driven development agency which builds aesthetic & functional solutions for iOS,…

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