Nowadays, in the design of Web or App software, apart from the common loading animation, another component design often appears in the loading, downloading, navigation and playing pages — progress bar design. It can also effectively visualize waiting, give users feedback and hints in time, alleviate users’ negative emotions, improve user experience, and reduce the jump rate.
However, how can the design of the progress bar not only improve user experience, but also provide distinctive visual effects by using beautiful and cool colors, pictures, animations, or story themes, so as to establish the corporate brand image and make the company’s software products even better?
Here are 24 examples of innovative progress bar design. In addition, some free progress bar PSD files can also be downloaded directly, hoping to help you:
There are various progress bar designs. And here, for the convenience of everyone to view and understand, xiaobian first according to the different style of the progress bar, listed and introduced for everyone:
Bar progress bar design
1.Loading Bar
View: dribbble.com/shots/38257…
★★★
Highlights: Dynamic design, alternating color changes
This dynamic bar progress bar design adopts the alternating of two colors to advance forward, and combines the label number of synchronous transformation at the tail to vividly show the progress of the current task to the user. It is a very typical dynamic bar progress bar design.
Learning points:
Single color shading, saturation transformation, gradual color addition, or dynamic display of multiple colors are important entry points of bar progress bar design
Of course, in order to ensure the beauty and coordination of the whole design, we should also pay attention to the color collocation of the progress bar.
As shown in the picture, the progress bar is designed for both iOS and Android applications. It uses a single color gradient and saturation change design, which is beautiful and simple.
2.Animated Progress Bar
View: dribbble.com/shots/48218…
★★★★ ★
Highlights: Dynamic combination of bar progress bar and icon
The dynamic combination of “bar progress bar + icon/picture” is another typical design point in progress bar design after color transformation. And this design, from this design concept, to create a very beautiful and practical progress bar components.
Learning points:
Enrich progress bar design by combining ICONS, pictures, logos or labels related to various products, software or enterprises
3.R79 Progress Bar 2
View: dribbble.com/shots/40163…
★★★★ ★
Window: simple dot, line and the combination of moving effect, contracted and practical
The dynamic progress bar design, ingenious combination of points, lines and dynamic effect design, clearly shows the progress of the progress bar to users. Simple and intuitive, interesting and practical, is a very creative and high quality bar progress bar design.
Learning points:
Simple design style is very useful both in software design as a whole and in the design of individual page components
4.Progress Bar Line
View: dribbble.com/shots/36314…
★★★★ ★
Highlights: Creative dynamic combination of “line + number”
Bar progress bar design does not necessarily mean bar design with a certain width. After simplification and abstraction by designers, the dynamic combination of “line + number” is also an important way to show the loading or downloading process of Web or App and present corresponding feedback.
5.Download IV
View: dribbble.com/shots/31961…
★★★★ ★
Highlights: The progress bar is designed with other button functions to optimize its functionality
The eye-catching progress bar combined with the design of the download button gives users feedback and hints very intuitively. In addition, the progress bar like snowflake scatter effect is added to greatly improve the visual effect of the whole design, which is very effective in attracting users’ attention and alleviating their negative emotions when waiting.
Learning points:
Improve the functionality of the progress bar by combining page download, submission, behavior call button design and other function design
As shown in the picture, the progress bar is combined with playback, fast forward and back button design, which makes the whole page design more coordinated and integrated and provides better user experience.
6.Flash Message Progress Bar Color Feedback
View: dribbble.com/shots/45649…
★★★★ ★
Highlight: Color feedback
It is a common design method for designers to convey different operation feedback through color transformation. And this section of the progress bar design adopts this design method. When the download is successful, the progress bar directly changes from yellow to green to convey the signal of successful operation. However, when the download fails, the progress bar changes to a bright red color, an intuitive reminder and warning to the user.
Learning point: use color changes to intuitively convey various operational feedback
7.Vertical Progress Bar Animated
View: dribbble.com/shots/32314…
★★★★ ★
Highlights: Vertical progress bar design
Different from most progress bars designed in horizontal direction, this progress bar is directly designed in vertical direction, which is eye-catching and practical, and can effectively attract and divert users’ attention.
Learning point
Horizontal or vertical progress bar design, will be a good design breakthrough point
Circular progress bar design
8.Circular Progress Bar
View: dribbble.com/shots/39826…
★★★
Highlights: Combination of single shades, saturation and dynamic effects
The circular progress bar design focuses on the combination design of single color shading, saturation and dynamic effect commonly used in progress bar design, which is intuitive and practical.
Learning points:
Use single or multiple colors to optimize the visual effect of the progress bar design
As shown in the figure, various color bars are used to display different data feedback, which is simple and intuitive, beautiful and eye-catching.
9.Circular Progress Bar App Animation
View: dribbble.com/shots/37068…
★★★★ ★
Highlights: Creative dynamic dial design
Design comes from life. The circular progress bar design of this mobile App creatively applies the common instrument panel in life to the progress bar design, which is unique and interesting.
Learning points:
Combined with designer creativity, give the progress bar a unique appearance
As shown, the simplified dial design is not an excellent design point.
10.Neon Loader
View: dribbble.com/shots/41262…
★★★★ ★
Highlights: “line + number” dynamic combination, excellent visual effect
The progress bar is designed with a simple “line + number” dynamic combination to create an excellent visual effect and user experience.
11.Schedule Progress Bar
View: dribbble.com/shots/33740…
★★★★ ★
Highlights: Emoticon icon design improves the emotional experience of progress bar design
This ring progress bar design outstanding feature lies in: added the expression icon design. Different emoticons are displayed according to the loading progress, so as to arouse users’ emotions through the design of the progress bar, so as to realize the communication with users at the emotional level and improve their emotional experience.
Learning points:
Add emotional elements, such as emoticons and heart-hugging micro-text design, to improve the emotional experience of progress bar design
12.Circular Percentage Bar for Apple Watch
To view:
Dribbble.com/shots/48084…
★★★
Designed specifically for the Apple Watch, this circular progress bar is ideal for designers who need to design progress bars for similar devices.
Other shape progress bar design
13.Happy Heart Preloader
View: dribbble.com/shots/33382…
★★★★★ ★
Highlights: Irregular shape design, emotional progress bar design, eye-catching color matching
The irregular progress bar design, combined with dynamic expression and eye-catching color matching, so that users unconsciously infected. Is a very worth learning emotional progress bar design example.
In addition, in order to improve work efficiency and strengthen team collaboration and communication in design and development department, here are some free PSD, HTML/HTML5 and CSS/CSS3 progress bar design examples:
Free PSD progress bar design
14.Cute Game Loading Progress Bar — Free PNG and PSD download
Preview download: pngtree.com/freepng/cut…
★★★★★ ★
Highlights: Unique design
This free PSD progress bar design, the use of a unique appearance design, is a lovely eye-catching case.
Learning points:
Combined with product and brand characteristics, reasonable imagination, add unique progress bar appearance design
See more examples of a free PSD progress bar design with a unique look created through reasonable imagination:
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15.Music Player Progress Bar – Free PNG and PSD download
Preview download: pngtree.com/freepng/mus…
★★★★★ ★
Highlights: Combine design with other features to optimize and enrich the playback page
This is a free PSD progress bar designed in combination with other features. The whole design is more textured and functional than a separate progress bar design.
16.Pink Symphony Progress Bar – Free PNG and PSD download
Preview download: pngtree.com/freepng/pin…
★★★
Highlights: Add unique progress bar effects to enhance its visual effect
This free PSD progress bar, through the progress bar bubble effect, exquisite color matching and 3D sliding button design, to create a highly visual expressive progress bar case.
Learning points:
Add various display effects, such as bubbles, fluid, glow, bounce, etc., to improve the visual performance of the progress bar
Round Blue Button Progress Bar – Free PNG and PSD download
Preview download: pngtree.com/freepng/rou…
★★★
Highlights: 3D button appearance design
This free PSD progress bar design, the use of 3D button appearance design, very beautiful atmosphere.
Learning points:
Optimizing the progress bar design with advanced technology like 3D
18.Progress Bar Steps – Free PNG and PSD download
Preview download: pngtree.com/freepng/pro…
★★★
Highlights: Process design
Software process or step presentation is another important use scenario for progress bars. This design is a typical case of such scenarios. Combined with the button icon, achieve gradient progress bar design. After the user completes one stage, the user will automatically start the next stage of the friendly design, giving the user enough hints and guidance, both visual and practical.
CSS/CSS3 Progress bar design
19.Lightsaber Progress Bar
View: codemyui.com/lightsaber-…
★★★★★ ★
Why it’s cool: Sci-fi design
The progress bar is designed with the look of Star Wars lightsabers in mind. Is a very suitable for similar games around the APP or web progress bar design.
20.Place an Order Progress Bar with Animation Steps
View: codemyui.com/place-order…
★★★★★ ★
Highlights: Dynamic ordering process design
The CSS3 progress bar design, dynamic display of the site or page order process, very intuitive and practical.
Other excellent creative progress bar design appreciation:
2018 also saw the emergence of many creative and story-telling progress bar designs that are well worth learning and following:
21.Progress Bar Color Ball
View: dribbble.com/shots/44839…
22.Player Progress Bar
View: dribbble.com/shots/41826…
23. Helixbar
View: dribbble.com/shots/54153…
24.Progress Bar Thai
View: dribbble.com/shots/47771…
All in all, I hope the 24 latest creative designs shared above can give you some design inspiration.
How to use prototype tool to make progress bar quickly?
Although, Web or App progress bar design, there are not too many restrictions. However, designers also need to consider specific software design requirements, characteristics and page design coordination and consistency in practical design cases.
In this regard, designers must choose a high-quality and efficient prototyping tool to timely prototype various progress bar design ideas, test their effectiveness and usability, and obtain necessary design feedback.
For example, the above Progress Bar design example of Lightsaber Progress Bar can be protofabricated through the following production steps, and tested and verified in time:
First, effect preview:
Step 1: Pull out the image, shape, and single-line text components and set the rounded corners and border colors for the shape components
Step 2: The picture interacts with the shape component, click to adjust the size, and set the width, movement direction and animation duration
Step 3: Adjust the shape component to the original starting point
The progress bar preview links: run. Mockplus. Cn/KKVTx0zsU5A…
Conclusion:
No matter what type or style of progress bar design, as long as it meets the requirements and characteristics of Web or App design, and can effectively retain users, there are no too many restrictions. Designers can simply follow their heart, or rigorous, or colorful children’s fun, or eye-catching cool, or unrestrained, can effectively create a unique style and user experience excellent progress bar design.
Of course, in order to timely test the relevant progress bar design ideas and obtain the corresponding user feedback, it is also very effective to select an effective prototyping tool, such as Mockplus, which is simple and quick to quickly prototype relevant designs.