Every week, we feature customized desktops and smartphone home screens submitted by readers are a great use of the customization tools and UI tweaks available for both desktop and mobile operating systems. It helps that those desktops are elegant, informative, and good-looking. 2012 was a great year to customize your desktop or smartphone, and we saw more great-looking and highly-functional setups than we possibly had room to feature. Here's a look back at the most popular featured desktops and home screens of the past year.
The Ice Cream Sandwich Desktop
Flickr user David Molina wanted to bring the beauty of Android Ice Cream Sandwich to his desktop, and with a little tweaking and the right tools, we would have to say he definitely succeeded. More ?
The Happy Sky Desktop
A glowing night city and a rare astronomical event lay the groundwork for Flickr user Tasha Ward's desktop, on top of which she's built an informative, intelligent, and useful HUD thanks to a little Rainmeter wizardry. More ?
The Soothing and Serene Desktop
Flickr user rajdroid says that this desktop makes him feel calm, and has a soothing effect, and we couldn't agree more. More ?
The Translucent Desktop
If you're going to have widgets and status boxes and rss feeds on your desktop, most people would agree they should at least be unobtrusive and not a distraction from the wallpaper or the overall theme. More ?
The Original Desktop
When we say this is "the original desktop," it's not because it's the first one, or because it's totally unique, but because Flickr user Bassam Rajput has an inspiring wallpaper that encourages us to be original. More ?
The Avengers Desktop
Flickr user l1nfr4nk7 loved The Avengers as much as we did, so he decided to transform his Ubuntu desktop into a reminder of how awesome the movie was. More ?
The Twilight Desktop
Flickr user (and Arch Linux forum member) Paanini loves Arch Linux, and loves customizing his desktop. We love Arch too, and when we saw this beautiful twilight wallpaper, customized with some sharp-looking Conky scripts and a dash of Todo.txt, our favorite plain-text to-do list manager, we had to highlight it. More ?
The Clear Blue Desktop
It's been a while since we saw some really great GeekTool desktops in the Lifehacker Desktop Show and Tell Flickr Pool, so when Flickr user Hang Lu submitted this gorgeous one above, we took notice. More ?
The Pining for the Fjords Desktop
Flickr user zulfaqar wanted a desktop that was elegant, informative, but also relaxing and serene for those long days in front of the computer doing work for the office or writing papers for school. More ?
The Heavenly Desktop
Flickr user d_carr wanted a workspace that was minimal, but sprung to life when it was time to get some work done, and didn't want to sacrifice looks to do it. More ?
The Pure Google Home Screen
Reader crstemple designed his new home screen around Ice Cream Sandwich and Google's new, great-looking product icons. Here's how he put it together. More ?
The Evil Android Home Screen
Reader Ammar Githam took our evil weeks to heart and made this great looking, informative home screen. More ?
The Tiny Tree Home Screen
Reader Mike E shares his very simple, elegant home screen that even non-rooters can put together. More ?
The Right Angle Home Screen
Reader Eric Shen goes the text-only route with his home screen, though with an interesting twist-a set of folders going up the right side of the screen, to mirror those on the bottom launcher. More ?
The Tabbed Home Screen
Reader Dandylion took a very different approach to organizing his home screen, using the Sweeterhome Launcher to give it a tabbed organization. Here's how. More ?
The Google Now Home Screen
Reader dp0 liked the look of Google Now, Android's new real-time info app, so he put together a home screen based on its colorful style. Here's how to recreate it. More ?
The Avengers Assemble Home Screen
Custom icons, handy widgets, and superherodom come together in this week's home screen from reader Kin-Ho Ma.
This particular screen is dead simple to put together. More ?
The 8-Bit Avengers Home Screen
Reader Rob created this home screen with an old school look and some timeless super heroes.
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The Four By Four Home Screen
Reader brandedman organized his home screen around 16 shortcuts, four per screen, along with a clean and unified look to tie it all together.
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The Aged Paper Home Screen
Reader Ammar Githam took a slightly different approach to home screen creation, placing all of his icons on the wallpaper itself for more freedom to create this handwriting-on-paper look. More ?
There you have it - the most popular home screens and featured desktops of 2012. If you want to see your customized desktop or your phone's home screen in a post or list like this one, here's what to do:
You never know, it may be the next one featured on the site!
Want more awesomely customized desktops and home screens? Check out our most popular featured desktops of 2011, 2010, 2009, and 2008.
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