Mobile UI Design Discussion

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Mobile UI Design Discussion
So the title basically says it all, how do you guys go about designing UI's for mobile devices (Android specifically)? I just use the Eclipse IDE with the android development sdk plugin for designing apps but I find that I am utterly terrible at making nice designs. I really like coding functionality of the app, but I just fail so hard when I try to design an interface for people to actually enjoy and benefit from the functionality. I just want to cry sometimes when I look at my finished ui in the designer lol. So there's my pitiful intro ( i am horrible at starting discussions, if you haven't noticed), now it's your guys' turn.
UI design is not a strong point of mine either. I tend to stick to writing out the backend code to be pluggable into any situation so that I can get someone else to help design a UI later down the road, or to give myself space to come up with a design later on. In some cases I Google for themes to various things like blogs, forums, etc. to get some ideas / concepts and such in my brain when I finally sit down to work on the UI aspect of a project.
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UI design is not a strong point of mine either. I tend to stick to writing out the backend code to be pluggable into any situation so that I can get someone else to help design a UI later down the road, or to give myself space to come up with a design later on. In some cases I Google for themes to various things like blogs, forums, etc. to get some ideas / concepts and such in my brain when I finally sit down to work on the UI aspect of a project.
^ this. Basically when I'm doing anything with a front-end (usually web-hosted stuff these days) I shamelessly piggyback off other people's nice designs to get the ball rolling. There are heaps of sites which have a great look and feel so I try to incorporate bits and pieces that I really like into my own design (i.e GitHub, Facebook, Microsoft's whole Metro layout..etc).

I don't know how graphic designers do it; as soon as it comes to making a functional UI my brain turns to spaghetti.
Haha I am so glad I am not the only one, i guess we all have something in common.

MPGH coders. Making complex algorithms by day, crying at night over ui's.
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