So far, today is friends day at UMS - here's another friend of ours: Matt Keas (@matthiasak) has his 3rd year (I think) conference Space City JS in Houston, Texas in April a couple of weeks before our ConvergeSE. We like the super-simple one-pager, perfect for a...
Ahhh - our friends at MailChimp have put our their 2015 Year in Review - and it's pretty sweet! I love how it starts with the mariachi band cover of the Star Wars theme - and even though it's a simple site, the color and vibe really speaks to MailChimp's fun...
As I'm reviewing the SFCD website, I have the Foo Fighters' Something From Nothing blasting in my headphones - when I landed on the page, the video background and animations go really great with each other. Besides that - this is a cool site, that has great movement...
Sweet little design for the World's Fair USA "petition". It has a bunch of cool features to it. It doesn't quite seem complete - but there are some nice elements in it (plus - yeah, I'd like to see a World's Fair come back to the US too - I still have a program from...
Whenever we hit the road to put on a conference (like ConvergeSE / BDConf / FrontEndDesign Conf / or Grok - shameless plugs...) you can guarantee that around 6am on the first leg of the trip, we'll stop at a Cracker Barrel. After being in many, many Cracker Barrels -...
Each week, we do a round up of curated "stuff from the interwebs" that we call Radar. In this week's 122nd Radar: Native or Not? The Untapped Power of Web Apps This post was adapted from a talk Dan Tello has been giving this year (BD Conf and Forge were awesome and...
A lot of what's on here layout wise is standard fair but it looks really nicely put together. I believe this is a theme as well, but either way take in the design for what it's worth. Solid layout overall.
Rather minimal layout overall but there's enough here to be visually striking. Strong work across the board. I like the background image and how it scales based on the screen width you target as well. Smart.
Sometimes architect's websites can be crazy and very "flash" like. Remember that? I'm still seeing things like that, particularly in this industry for some reason... The Motive site skirts the line with the page loader on each section and the atypical layout scheme....
Great intern project site (with oversight) from the folks at Oblio out of Portland - based on what to do when the earthquake comes to destroy their city... Love the line in the About section: "The earthquake may take away our electricity, but it will never take away...
Pretty standard approach but made interesting by doing things a little bit different. I love the way the hero image/area slides up in an animated manner as you scroll, that was surprising and I liked it. I also really like the way they are displaying the work images,...
Simple yet powerful visuals and text make this website stand out to me. I love the headline and I love the typography. The way the work samples are presented are visually bold and lead you down the page scrolling for more.
I really love the big images used on the home page for the work samples, I also love the way the images slightly zoom in as youm mouse over them too. Overall the design has a such a great vibe and comes off feeling very cool. There's a rather interesting visual moment...
Our opinion of restaurant sites is usually like our opinion of airline sites - they generally stink. That's why it's refreshing to see Norwegian Airlines' site. It's clean, and simple, and functional. They've taken a lot of the business out of the home page, and put...
The product looks pretty stellar and the website matches it quite well. I dig the simplified lines and approach to the layout. The slider being place down lower on the page scroll is well placed and timed too.
Very nicely done business oriented website here. It's enterprise-y in all it's glory but also very slick and not busted. I love the way the main nav changes color to indicate state on the page. Then when you hit the section as you scroll that walks you through the...
Another stunning version of the Google Ventures website. I love the slight parallax on the main imagery paired with the overall minimalism. The new logo is quite nice as well.
Have you ever watched a movie (documentary or historicalish fiction), and wished you had some extra insight into the background of the film? Well, for The Forecaster (see info below - and, well the website attached), they've done just that. It has a Financial Times...
Each week, we do a round up of curated "stuff from the interwebs" that we call Radar. In this week's 121st Radar: User behaviour Websites and apps are designed for compulsion, even addiction. Should the net be regulated like drugs or casinos? Free Download: Clocks...
um... wut? Crazy, but cool site from Nicole Jacek out of California - be careful clicking on the circle on the top left with your headphones on... or off. Enjoy some experimental stuff!
Arrrrgh - it's killing me - I've been trying to figure out / remember for the past two days what album cover that the Circles Conference is pulling their hero image from... at least I think it's an album cover - I'm doubting myself more and more on this over the week...
Super cool scrolling image in the background of the site, turns out it's the logo too. Pretty solid. I love the minimal yet engrossing vibe of the site. If only I could try this coldbrew!
Pretty nice soft yet solid vibe for the Morphix Studios website. I love the illustration work across the site and the simple layout details make me smile. From the Designer: Website of a design studio, based in Slovenia, Europe. We're specialized in product design...
Really cool layout and detail work for the Y Collective website. I love the honeycomb stuff and the load in animations on the different sections of the home page. Bravo on this design guys! From the Designer: When I have created logo, I decided that I will use the...
Tacos in Oslo.. yep. When I lived in Australia, getting Mexican food was always hit or miss - so hope El Burro's food is as good as their website. BTW - this is a great one-pager for a restaurant (which we've said before... restaurant websites usually stink). I'm not...
Awesome site from This Also out of Brooklyn. Great home page with video background - great use of navigation that is hamburger, but it's not - and great way of each page always leading back to the home page, but it's also the footer, that's the home page... cool.
Leandro Lima, out of Barcelona has some great work highlighted here - especially the illustration side of the site. I also like the look and motion of the hamburger drawer on the left.
Love the texture that's woven into this site - both fore- and background, for Original Territory Brand Dog Co out of White Plains, NY. Cool little icon work on the nav too.
This studio / agency site for Swink out of Wisconsin is pretty sweet. We're rebuilding our client services site - and this is great inspiration (we won't steal, we promise). Love the font work and letterpress style of the site.
As I was setting up the review for Elm Coffee Roasters out of Seattle - I found myself stopping, and going to get coffee at least twice... I guess the marketing is working. Great design - clean and simple, with video background on top - excellent!
