Nowadays, not only the traditional phone side chat, social networking and communication software chat interface (easy communication and understanding), since some of the new mobile phone online shopping and e-commerce application, to enhance the user experience, understand the real-time change of user requirements, and collect user feedback, also specially added chat plate, easy to users understand and asked about the product, Company information.
However, no matter what kind of software, chat interface or board Settings, after all, users are easy to input, send and read information. However, this does not mean that all chat interfaces should only contain these boring or unchanged layers of layouts or functions, but should be combined with specific usage scenarios, product company characteristics, and designer creativity to design a great experience, beautiful and smooth chat interface/board.
So, how to design a beautiful, cool and useful chat interface or board? Here are 12 new and creative mobile chat interface designs that will help designers:
1.In-chat Broadcasting
Designer: Dmitry Seryukov
Highlights: unique way to add and expand video and classic black and white color matching application
This design adopts a unique and innovative way to add and expand video sharing from the corner of the phone to the full screen. And, its classic black and white color, but also make the whole design more high quality fashion. In addition, the navigation bar animation and the simple and easy-to-use text and media input design at the bottom greatly simplify and enhance the user experience.
Points to learn: * Design a unique and innovative way to add and unfold video/audio to your chat interface/software
* Choose the best color scheme for your interface
Classic black and white collocation, give a person the feeling with generous vogue commonly. Blue and white give people a sense of peace and quiet. Pink and white are more suitable for shopping or chatting apps aimed at women. In general, choose the best color scheme based on your chat interface or software features or usage scenarios. Of course, in the design of a chat page, also pay attention to the overall software color harmony. (Click to learn more about common colors in UX/UI design)
2.Live Chat
Designer: Albert Zikmund
Highlights: Design according to product or software characteristics
As a mobile app chat interface specially designed for Starbucks coffee, the designer combined the well-known green logo of Starbucks with the overall design of green as the theme color of the interface. At the same time, combined with the characteristics of its online service, specially added customer information collection page, easy to collect user feedback at the same time, but also conducive to provide users with more intimate and high-quality online service.
Learning points:
* Add relevant content based on software, product or company characteristics
Therefore, in your chat interface or software design, you can also use software, product or company characteristics as the entry point and flash point, shorten the distance with users, at the same time, resonate.
For example, when designing the chat interface or board of some games, you can add some classic game characters’ heads, ICONS or buttons with game characteristics to enhance the interface interest and usability.
Or, when designing the chat interface of some online shopping software, some dynamic product display plates can be added to increase the product exposure rate and relieve the negative emotions brought to users by the occasional delayed response from customer service.
3.Chatlio
Designer: Balkan Brothers
Highlights: Soft painterly bubble design and comfortable color application
The design of the page adopts a uniform purple series color scheme, so that the whole page is beautiful and comfortable. Its soft rounded corner conversation bubble design, also let the whole page is not because of the simple and clean layout design and appear too dull. Moreover, its simple and clean interface, user experience is also excellent.
Learning points:
* Design different color schemes for your chat interface, so that users can choose according to their needs and preferences
In your chat interface design, you can also use the interface color matching mode, for your interface design a variety of color matching or skin, convenient users according to different needs, mood, gender and preferences for personalized selection, so that your chat interface has higher customization function.
4.Direct Message
Designer: Hummingbirdsday
Highlights: Very distinctive graffiti board design
The biggest highlight of this chat interface design is its text input design similar to graffiti board. It not only allows mobile phone software users to add text easily, modify font color and style, but also can directly draw and add doodles according to their needs, which is intuitive, interesting and unique.
Points to learn: * Design and add intuitive and fun doodle boards to brighten up your chat interface/software design
5.Switchboard Connect
Designer: Daniel Boros
Highlights: Voice, not traditional text, is the main way of communication
As a group chat software designed for remote team collaboration, the chat interface of the software, different from the general interface to text input based communication, but the use of a new voice based communication, so that the team collaboration more quickly and efficiently. Users long press the recording icon, you can start recording, release the end, easy to operate.
And its interface navigation bar added rich ICONS and buttons, also greatly expand the page function, easy for users to achieve simple and quick page conversion.
Suggestion: * Add some voice communication buttons or ICONS, so that users can freely select text or voice communication mode
6.Panel Expansion
Designer: K.Mohit
Highlights: The way to hide and expand the function area at the bottom
Although this design is not a complete chat interface design, but its very distinctive bottom function area expansion design is also worth emulating. In addition to general text editing and emoticon icon adding buttons, the designer adopted the unique design of clicking buttons to expand the additional function area, which not only does not affect the simple and clean interface, but also effectively expands the interface functions, which is also very good for improving the user’s pleasant experience.
Learning points: * Expand chat interface functions by clicking buttons to expand or hide functional areas
* Reserve multiple bottom functional area design schemes, and select the one with the best user experience according to the specific prototype test results
Of course, not all user chat interfaces are suitable for the way this interface expands its functionality, and it is worth further consideration as to where the buttons for expansion are located at the bottom to create a more pleasant user experience. Therefore, in actual design, it is best to reserve multiple design schemes for bottom functional areas. After selecting an excellent prototyping tool (such as Mockplus, a convenient and quick prototyping tool) and making visual prototypes, the best design scheme can be selected through repeated testing and analysis of user feedback, rather than subjective speculation without foundation.
7.Beflirty app
Designer: irfanfaiz
Window: extremely simplified design style
The chat interface features a minimalist design style that is currently quite popular. Although the interface does not have many intuitive and visual functions and buttons, it is easier for users to focus on the input, sending and reading of chat messages. This extremely simple design minimizes low frequency noise, which is great for speeding up page loading and improving user experience. Moreover, the hidden menu bar added in a progressive design is also very effective for the function expansion of the interface itself.
Learning points: * Adopt extremely simplified design style
Extremely simplified design style, as an increasingly popular design trend in recent years, is not to blindly reduce interface functions or components, but to use limited components to create a simpler and easier to use design, in order to improve user experience. Therefore, in your chat interface design, you can also use this design method, flexible application of various white space, wireframes, simple and intuitive buttons or ICONS and interesting pictures, optimize the chat interface design. (Check out more UX design styles and trends in 2018)
8.Multitasking messager UI
Designer: Cuberto
Highlights: Interesting dynamic background
The most prominent feature of this design is the use of dynamic background images to enhance the chat interface fun. And its main menu can expand the functional area, optimize the software function at the same time, but also greatly enhance the appeal of the software.
Learning points: * Add dynamic pictures, not just background pictures, to make the chat interface more interesting and unique
9.Chatbot animation
Designer: Noterrain
Highlights: Thoughtful selection of commonly used sentences
To optimize the user experience, the chat page design provides a selection of common sentences in the chat. Users do not need to enter one by one, and can choose the required related statements according to various situations to communicate. That’s pretty sweet. Moreover, its diverse conversational bubble design is also very effective for users to distinguish and read their own and others’ messages in a simple and intuitive way.
Learning points:
* Add common sentences, emojis, pictures or icon selections to enhance the user experience of the chat page
Design conversation bubbles in a variety of shapes, colors and fonts to make it easy for users to distinguish and read chat messages
10. Chat animation Jakub
Designer: Jakub Antalik
Why it’s cool: Special text fluid effects
The most characteristic of this design is its text fluid effect like fish breaking water, making the whole interface more clever and interesting.
Learning points:
* Design and add featured text, button or bubble effects to enhance page appeal
11.Chat UI Welcome screen
Designer: Vlad Tyzum
Highlights: Cute and interesting animated expressions
Although this design is just the welcome page of chat software, its lovely and interesting animated expressions have obvious effects on gaining users’ good impression and realizing emotional communication with users.
Learning points:
* Add dynamic emoticon ICONS, animations or interactions to achieve emotional communication with users
12.Chat Bot
Designer: Valentin Salmon
Highlights: Advanced chatbot design
The chat software focused on showing its advanced chat robot design, cute naughty small robot appearance, effectively shorten the distance with users. Thoughtful and timely response is also very effective in improving user experience.
Learning points:
* Add chatbots or similar advanced technology to enrich your chat interface
Here are some of the most creative chat interface or board designs that I’ve collected to help you.
Mockplus helps you create, test, demonstrate and share various chat interfaces/software designs quickly and easily
After listening to the above 12 innovative software interface or software design analysis, are you full of inspiration? And is in urgent need of a satisfactory prototyping tool, simple and quick to create and iterate these chat interface/software, so as to more intuitive and vivid display of these design concepts, so that users and investors in the eyes of a bright? Don’t worry. Mockplus is definitely your best bet. As a faster and simpler prototyping tool, Mockplus not only provides rich and powerful features to help you quickly and maximally convert interface design concepts into visual quality prototypes, but also features in prototype testing, demonstration and sharing, dynamic adding, interface conversion effects and other aspects:
Mockplus provides powerful and rich features to help you create beautiful chat interfaces/software prototypes
1). Enrich your chat interface/software design with various bubbles and emoticons
Conversation bubbles and emoticons, two essential elements in chat interface/software design, are often used by UX/UI designers to make the interface more interesting and unique. Mockplus packs a powerful icon library (with over 3,000 vector ICONS) that provides a wealth of bubbles and emoji ICONS that designers can add and edit to enrich their interface designs.
2). Use GIF component to add dynamic emoticons, ICONS or pictures to enhance the interface interest
Adding dynamic emoticons, ICONS or pictures to the chat interface/software design is also very effective in making the interface more interesting. Mockplus provides a dedicated GIF component for designers to add dynamic background images, emojis or ICONS to enhance the interface and enhance the user experience.
3). Use “tag” and “multi-line text component” to add various chat texts
As an important carrier to help users communicate and understand each other in chat interface, chat text is one of the most core components in chat interface or software design. Mockplus provides a simple drag and drop to add “labels” and “multiline text components” to use, making it easy for designers to add a variety of colors, styles, and effects to their communication text.
4). Use its chat and social software examples to quickly craft and transform your interface design ideas
Have a great idea for one part or module of the chat interface, but don’t want to prototype the entire interface or software step by step from scratch? Mockplus provides a large number of commonly used software and interface examples that designers can easily download and import, modify and improve the required parts or modules based on their ideas, and quickly create and complete the chat interface/software world design without having to start from scratch.
Mockplus helps you test, demonstrate and share various chat interfaces/software designs
1). Simply drag and drop to add rich and sensitive interactions and animations to your chat interface/or software
The interaction and movement of text, images, ICONS and buttons in the chat interface is also extremely effective in optimizing the user experience of the interface. Mockplus has multiple interaction commands, making it easy for designers to simply drag and drop links to add interactions and animations. In addition, it provides various page conversion effects, for the creation of more fluid and varied chat software prototype, is also well worth trying.
2).8 ways to preview and share, easy to test, demo and share prototypes, easily capture the hearts of users and investors
Mockplus provides an 8-minute preview and sharing mode for designers to test, demonstrate and share their chat interface/software prototypes more intuitively and vividly across a variety of commonly used devices. And this is very practical for designers to get user feedback in a timely manner and win the favor of investors.
Whether you need a quick and easy way to prototype your chat interface/software design, or a more intuitive way to test and demonstrate your chat design, Mockplus has everything you need.
conclusion
Chat interface, board or software design, for designers, is not only to design and create a platform for users to simply input text for communication, but also should be a intimate carrier that allows users to freely express and reveal their emotions, show their personalities, and not be burdened by the interface. The various elements displayed in the software or interface, typesetting, addition of media, choice of theme, interaction design, text style and color, and even the selection and arrangement of ICONS or buttons, will affect the appearance of the software or interface itself, as well as the user experience. This is why designers need to choose and use a quality prototyping tool (such as Mockplus introduced above) to maximize the reality of the design concept, while testing and demonstrating its usability and uniqueness more easily and quickly.
Hopefully, these 12 new creative chat interface design and prototyping tools will help you.