GenericUI Design Gallery
Great Page Designs that Inspire Our Guidelines
There are five billion web pages out there.
Yes, you can create a new design, but the odds make it unlikely
that you will. More importantly, creativity is not the goal
for designing functional software. Instead, you should be applying
the lessons learned by others and good graphic art judgment.
The top pages by the top providers generally have "been
there—done that" a thousand times over. Learn from
them, as we have below.
Table Colors: Microsoft Hotmail

The Choice of Sans-Serif Fonts
Virtually all top sites use sans-serif fonts like Arial or
Verdana. Here's just one, UPS:

Links that Are Not Underlined, Philly.com
It's more common than you think...

Logon vs. New User "Fork in the Road"
Online check printing companies are often
good models of "application" sites because they are
expected to be very quick and easy sales. If you can't order
checks in 10 minutes, you're going to go somewhere else. This
one shows a login vs. new user fork in the road that we'll redesign
with our styles soon.

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