Progress bars show a user the current progress through mutliple-step processes, as well as download statuses; creative progress bars do the same, while alleviating the pain of waiting. Dull and time-consuming procedures bore users, who swipe, click and tap through content as fast as the breaths they take. Getting the right progress bar design could help increase conversion rates.

In this post are inspiring examples of awesome progress bar designs. Further down you can even find free progress bar psds to download for your use. As you can see from examples of these excellent progress indicators, they not only inform users of the progression of steps and the status of the download, but can take a life of their own.

Hopefully these examples will inspire you to create your own progress tracker that will successfully guide your users through all necessary steps of loading.

1 2 3 Done by Eric Pastwa

Welcome Steps by Luke Beard

Checkout page for Madein33 by David Cadusseau

Steps by Nadine Haardt

Getting Started Wizard by Missy Titus

Progress Bar Icons by Joshua Sortino

Enter Card Details by James

Fire Flame, Flame, Fire Flame Loader! by Mike DelGuidice

Remake of first shot by Kamil Khadeyev

Glass UI by Ryan Putnam

Loading Bar by Andrea Cau

Loading by Evgeny Skidanov

Progress Bar by Bojan Janjanin

Bee progress bar by Andrew Ckor

Progress Bar by Jan Losert

Progress Bar by Nina Geometrieva

iOS Splash Screen by Kerem Suer

Pro-grass Bar by dom

Animated CSS Progress Bar by Sascha Michael Trinkaus

Progress bar by Denis Perepelenko

Yellow Uploading by Voyover

Space progress bar by Mladen Zivanovic

Loader Fly by Lumen Bigott

Brick UI by Ryan Putnam

Toxic progress bar 3D by Alex Patrascu

Thanks by Mathieu Oftadeh

Rusty progress bar by Voyover

Just loader by Balazs Szarka

Progress Bar by Béla Lajos

Loading by Bryan Sleiter

Progress Bar by Peter Gajdos

Progress bar by Jekaterina

Progress Bar by Roman Bulah

Amount of water by Romina Kavcic

Loading by Andre Felipe Ribeiro

Progress Wheel by Thuy Gia Nguyen

Round Loading by Sanja Veljanoska

Circular progress bar by Marcus Forsberg

Progression thing by Alberto Jeldez

Free Progress Bar PSD

There is no a certain technique for creating a perfect progress tracker, but your main task is to make it unusual. Also, it should fit properly the other elements of your interface.

Here are 20 great free progress bar designs below available for download.

Progress Bar Freebie by Greg Dlubacz

Dark UI – PSD Download by Jeff Broderick

Color Changing Download Progress Bar by Vin Thomas

Circular Progress Bar by Asif Aleem

Progress Bar by wpnature

Loading Rebound by George Leonardo

Mario Progress bar by Badhon Ebrahim

Round Progress Meter by Marco Moreno

Progress bar + retina ready by Jakub Spitzer

Progress Bar by Niels De Craecker

Progress by Corey Haggard

Step Badge by Takamasa Matsumoto

Status Bar by Kevin Eichhorn

Progress Bar by Jeff Broderick

Upload to Cloud by idraki

Sweet Little Progress Bar

Energetic Yellow Progress Bar by Deepak Jose

Progress bar free psd file

You wouldn’t find your usual television programs while channel surfing in South Korea because you might stumble upon Starcraft gaming leagues airing live on national TV. That phenomenon has been going on for a while now together with gaming organizations setting up team practice houses for players all over the world to improving their gaming skills.

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Traditionally, gaming is thought to be a waste of time, time that could be spent doing more productive things like reading a book or learning how to code. Perhaps tradition needs to stop hogging the wheel, because these days gaming tournaments sell out in the thousands within an hour.

If you’re interested in keeping up to date in the world of E-Sports, here are 10 websites for the latest news and professional gaming tips.

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1. GameSpot

GameSpot is mainly a place for video game reviews and news. However, their coverage of E-Sports news is expansive, usually including most competitive PC games. Their content also includes behind-the-scenes interviews with players from the events that they attend.

2. ESFI World

ESFI is a news and media portal that covers Starcraft 2, League of Legends, DOTA 2 and fighting games like Street Fighter, and Marvel vs Capcom. They attend live events which is why you can find live interview videos and pictures from tournaments around the US.

3. CyberGamer

CyberGamer is based in Australia focusing on First Person Shooter (FPS) games on both consoles and PC, not forgetting League of Legends and DOTA 2. Their content is mostly news of teams based in Australia and they also organize leagues and tournaments to boost the Australian E-Sports scene.

4. Electronic Sports League

Electronic Sports League or ESL focuses on gaming leagues in Europe, primarily the internationally know Intel Masters Extreme tournament. They focus on PC games like Call of Duty, Counter Strike, Battlefied 3, FIFA, League of Legends, Starcraft 2 and World of Tanks.

5. Team Liquid

Team Liquid is a professional gaming team based in the Netherlands with players from all over the world. Although this is the main website from the team, its news articles and forums are filled with lots of in-depth analysis regarding tactics and strategies for the games DOTA 2, Starcraft 2, and League of Legends.

6. Major League Gaming

Major League Gaming or better known as MLG holds tournaments in North America for games like Starcraft 2, DOTA 2 and Black Ops 2 (XBox). You can catch the latest replays, results and schedules for all their tournaments including team news revolving around their events.

7. Lazygamer

Lazygamer is a video game website that has news and reviews on consoles and PC games. However, they also report about international E-Sports. The site is updated frequently about games like DOTA 2, League of Legends and even FIFA.

8. GosuGamers

Although the main HQ of GosuGamers is in Sweden, they have offices in US and Germany. They cover international news for games like DOTA 2, League of Legends, Starcraft 2 and Heroes of Newerth and also have a large database of game replays.

9. JoinDOTA

Judging by its name, JoinDOTA focuses solely on Defence Of The Ancient 2 (DOTA 2) where you can follow all the latest news, events and online competitions from all over the world. They feature players, team rankings and have a very active forum with many other DOTA 2 enthusiast.

10. ESReality

If you have been wondering where the Quake scene has disappeared to, check out ESReality. It was brought to life by a previous generation Quake pro-gamer and now houses the latest news about Quake Live gaming leagues.

From striking blue to hot red, birds can come in so many different colors that it is simply impossible not to fall for them. Be they in flight or perched, flaunting their beautifully colored wings or looking for the next meal, they are a sight to behold, and to have on your desktop.

As we are in another mid-week, color birds are taking center stage this Wallpaper Wednesday. Let these 18 beautiful birds wallpapers brighten your day until we hit the weekend.

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Cardinal Bird. Available in 1920×1080.

Eagle Art. Available in various sizes.

Colorful Bird. Available in various sizes.

Blue KingFisher. Available in various sizes.

Red And Blue Birds. Available in various sizes.

Birds Flower. Available in various sizes.

Birds. Available in 2560×1600.

Green Parrot. Available in various sizes.

Love Birds. Available in 1920×1200.

Quetzal Bird. Available in various sizes.

Green Colored Bird. Available in 1920×1080.

Parrot Family. Available in various sizes.

Minimalism Bird. Available in various sizes.

Raven. Available in 1920×1080.

Red Bird. Available in 1920×1080.

Pair Of Parrots. Available in various sizes.

Mixed Color Bird. Available in 1920×1200.

Colored Bird. Available in various sizes.