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Ask HN: Collection of UI Examples?

I'm tasked with showing a group of business folk what is possible on the web, prior to a day-long design/brainstorming session for a major app.

The idea is to assist them to break them out of the box, showing them all the possibilities of a Web UI, so that they can be more free in their brainstorming, and not just ask for the standard leftnav and forms.

So the question is -- does anyone have a collection of sites that could be used to demo different UI concepts?

If not a collection, even just recommendations on creative, but effective UIs would be of great assistance.

Edit: This could include all components of an app -- Navigation, Forms, Data Views, Reporting, Widgets/Controls, etc...

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Re:Ask HN: Collection of UI Examples? by kilian on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @06:47AM (#1161147)
Here are a couple of good sites on design patterns for various components, with nice examples:

http://www.welie.com/patterns/

http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/ (obviously)

http://ui-patterns.com/

Re:Ask HN: Collection of UI Examples? by pdebruic on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @07:21AM (#1161191)
Re:Ask HN: Collection of UI Examples? by toni on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @06:54AM (#1161153)
Check out Chris Messina's extensive collections on Flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/collections/
Re:Ask HN: Collection of UI Examples? by factoryjoe on Thursday March 04, 2010 @07:31PM (#1168476)
Also try chromeexperiments.com.

And, I have a collection of UI links at the bottom of this page:

http://wiki.factoryjoe.com/Screenshotting