20 Creative Twitter Designs and what makes them cool?
Apr 7, 2009Twitter is quickly becoming the fastest growing social community to be on, and everybody on Twitter wants to stand out and be unique. What makes Twitter so impressive is its simplicity both in design and functionality. There is a limit to what you can do with a Twitter profile, basically you can change the background and add a few colors which keeps it nice and clean.
So what makes a good Twitter design? Considering the only real design element you can play with is the background, it can be somewhat challenging to create an awe inspiring profile. It seems the current design trend emerging is the ‘left sidebar’. Majority of the design is contained within this area of screen real estate on the left, where most designers will display additional information about themselves, self portraits, personal or company logos, and links and banners. The only downside to the ‘left sidebar’ approach is the lack of space on 1024×768 resolution monitors (most common), therefore to get more out of the design, most designers go beyond the standard resolution and portions of the design become hidden by the main Twitter layout.
There are other options, such as repeating patterns, which are very common, and something we are starting to see more of, the extra-large backgrounds that can flow over the boundaries in all directions for maximum display.
Here’s a list of Twitter profiles whose creativity helps them stand out above the rest. Feel free to share any profiles you think should be mentioned here.
http://twitter.com/karenmcdade
http://twitter.com/betterinpink
http://twitter.com/ThinkDesign
http://twitter.com/chrisspooner
http://twitter.com/Jonathan360
https://twitter.com/elydelaney
This is really cool. Maybe you could provide some resources on creating Twitter backgrounds?
Great showcase. It would be interesting to see a break by category? Any ways, keep it up, love to see some more next month.
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Those are some very nice examples!
However, designing Twitter backgrounds can be really aggravating because of how difficult it is to predict how it’ll appear on others’ screens. This is largely due to the variety of resolutions, but even the viewer’s browser app &toolbar settings will affect how much space you have to work with. Many of the best backgrounds end up being mostly obscured by Twitter’s panels on many of the viewers’ screens.
So it seems like you either have to simply design for your own resolution and not worry about how it looks for anyone else – or be very conservative with your design, using about an inch or so of the leftmost portion of the screen to be reasonably sure that your design won’t get stomped all over by the static Twitter layout boxes
http://www.twitter.com/robodaniel.
Chris Spooners blog on how to make a background inspired mine…
I cant decide if mine is too cluttered or not though… but it amuses me…
david_m_beach
check out bish twitter maybe it will make your next design cut.
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I loved the elydelaney’s and MrTweet’s designs
Particularly inventive and unique
Great list of designs. There is also many others, the last one I found interesting was: http://twitter.com/xethorn
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These are great. I really love the techxav design. Pretty slick. I just redesigned my twitter account if anyone is interested
http://twitter.com/calindaniel