A coworker in my UI department referred me a few days ago to a blog post (In Hebrew) about a small and helpful UI tool called - UIDT (User Interface designers toolkit...). This tool was developed by "Morad Stern", a fellow UI enthusiast and a blogger (The blog is in Hebrew).

The purpose of this tool is to supply User Interface designers (Like me, or ones who do not...), with ready made UI elements. In my line of work it is very common to search for such elements in the www (world wide web...), and it can sometimes be very time consuming to find and crop the right element, and when you need to do it many times a day it can be a hassle.

UIDT is offering a simple solution for this problem (Free of charge). Still this tool is in its early stages so it doesn't have a wide variety of elements, but i'm sure that soon enough it will.

Still, I have a few suggestions that will make this tool perfect for me...

• Make this tool a social one, allow UI designers to upload elements for themselves and for others to later use. This will increase the variety and quality of the elements.
• Because I probably won't need to use the tool all day long, but I will still need it to be handy, I would suggest allowing it to work in the background, in the notification area, saving me open-close-open procedures all day long...

• Add a quick search and with auto-complete, to allow easy and quick element search
• Allow color control, especially for the background and the elements. But I don't see it as something too crucial, because most of us design on white background, and adding such control options might kill the possibility of making such a tool social.

Of course some UI design softwares already come with ready made elements, But this tool can make our life easier in so many cases, so keep up the good work "Morad" and thanks.