GUI Designers for your Next Sample Library or Plugin

18 Jun

Your product UI can play an important role in your product’s success – an amazing UI design can make a product sell well, whereas a bad UI can cause a product to flop. Its the first thing a customer sees when they come across your product for the first time (and first impressions count) so its important to get it right.

However, not everyone is a great designer and in most cases its best to employ an expert to help you with this part of your product development process.

In no particular order, here are some of the best and most recommended GUI and product artwork designers in the industry:

Scott Kane

Portfolio: https://www.behance.net/ScottKane
Type: GUI & 3D mockups
Notable projects: Antares Autotune, Soundiron Hyperion Strings, Strezov Sampling Oracle, Production Voices Production Grand 2

Voger Design

Portfolio: https://www.behance.net/voger
Type: GUI and 3D mockups
Notable projects: Toneforge, Have Audio Omnidrums, Big Fish Audio Street Drums, Wavefactory Cassette, Dmitry Sches Thorn, Metric AB

Richard Horvath

Portfolio: https://dribbble.com/orwhat
Type: GUI elements, icons, UX & strategy
Notable projects: Orchestral Tools SINE player, Native Instruments setup guides

Darin Leach

Portfolio: https://darinleachgraphics.com/gui-design
Type: GUI, artwork
Notable projects: Soundiron Requiem Light, Soundiron Antidrum, Gothic Instruments Sculptor, Soundiron Emotional Piano

Ryo Ishido

Portfolio: https://ryoishido.carbonmade.com/projects/6018716
Type: GUI, artwork
Notable Projects: Soundiron Harp Guitar, Big Fish Audio Stomps, Hybrid Two Project Bravo

Frank Flitton

Portfolio: https://frankflitton.com/
Type: GUI, artwork
Notable Projects: Big Fish Audio Momentum, Mojo 2 Horns, Apollo Cinematic Guitars, Fluid Harmonics, Korg iWavestation

Nathaniel Reeves

Portfolio: https://www.behance.net/nkurence
Type: GUI
Notable Projects: UVI Meteor, UVI Drum Designer, UVI Savage

Dry West Design

Portfolio: https://drywestdesign.com/
Type: GUI
Notable Projects: Prism Trailer, Elitist Loop, Eminence

Additional mentions:

The following are some additional mentions that were suggested to us by the community when writing this article. Some of these designers may have smaller (or less diverse) portfolios or be quite niche but also have high quality output:

Sam Hayles: https://dose-productions.com/

Seize Digital: https://www.behance.net/seizedigital

Paulo Nunes: https://www.behance.net/PauloNunesDesign

UI Mother: https://uimother.com – a little different to others listed here in that UI Mother is a UI kit store that offers premade style and UI animations