This Flick Electric site out of New Zealand, done by Traverse Digital in Wellington, is an example of breaking through barriers in an industry that is classically resistant to change (at least in the design sense). Flick looks to be a power / electric company that...
What I like about the pixelsmart agency site out of Germany is that they stick to a theme throughout the site - honey comb or angled view of a cube and turn it into a flat icon, you get a hexagon which shape is utilized heavily in their content design. It looks good...
Love the stark white that is the canvas for New Media Studio out of Toronto - mainly because of the Northern Lights video background - cool intro. Like the filtered search on the Work page, and like that it's not jQuery Masonry. And I think I'll have to change some...
Ok - turn your sound down or click it off on the top left when you get to Paquebot - but the ditty works for this agency site out of Tokyo because it fits well with the time-lapse video. And the time-lapse video makes this one-pager "sing" - love the way it feels like...
Love it when we get a chance to review sites a second (and third time) like Lift Interactive out of Edmonton. They've made another good one here. Like the mix of text treatments, b/w background images / color images / flat color illustrations. It all seems to work as...
The color theme really brings me into this site, and the simple imagery makes it feel like a 'home away from home'. For those nomads and coworkers like me out there a nice cowork is a must, and the clean/crisp/simple feel of the site speaks up about this place in a...
Solid midwestern work from InnovateMap out of Indianapolis (borrowing from the designer below). Like this trend to have softer edges on images, more of an Instagram feel when it comes to portraying companies (compared to sites that have stark, bright, fake / stock...
This Beagle app site (A tool for creating better proposals) looks to be designed by Podio in conjunction with Spring / Summer out of Copenhagen, Denmark. Listen, scroll-jacking as a designer may not be your thing, but when you see how tight this site is - you may...
Like this portfolio site from Catalin Boroi out of Bucharest - his illustrations are cool - but also like how it looks like an envelope to start with, but opens to a clean website with some vertical nav after that. From the Designer: efingo is my personal portfolio....
After putting on ConvergeSE last week, needed a decent site to ease into gallery reviews for UMS - Into The Vineyard out of Vancouver did that for me. My wife and I love wine and travel - so good combo. I like the flow and imagery of the site. And I know that you may...
We don't get may sites to review out of Indonesia, so we're happy to see the WEBARQ site out of Jakarta (and I personally have good memories of there and Bali... but that's for another day). They have some cool artwork on the site that is also used for...
Love when a community project gains momentum like the Make Something Edmonton project has. The design is excellent all the way through - take a few moments to "flip" through the site - it's not like other sites we see here at UMS - and we love them for that. From the...
Nifty one-page agency site out of Athens from The Research Hive. They keep to the hive theme in their shapes, and like their SVG work / regular and animated. From the Designer: The Research Hive is a team of senior researchers who share the same passion for market...
Love the simplicity of this design - plus this is the second site I've seen recently that has images in each page that are activated by hovering on relative links. The links to the Work show large background photos when hovered upon. It's cool design that's fairly...
How do you market books that have been around for 50 to 300 years? Put their famous quotes into a web based, literary "guess the book", spin the bottle (most likely drinking) game. Maybe that's not the full intent of Penguin Books' Little Black Classics site, they say...
Dig the full-width, parallax slideshow on the home page of the 8 Bis Branding site out of Montreal. Found it interesting that they went for filtered search on two pages - Projects and Culture - but the categories on each make sense. There's also some nice animated SVG...
This site has been out for a while, but while looking at shoes for races coming up, we found the Newton Running site - wow. From the cool navigation and transitions on the "home page" after the intro, to the interactive parts when viewing the shoes - this site has...
John has been helping us work on posts for UMS, and left me some comments that I figured were more relevant for the Visit Florida site than what I would have written - so here's his first post: Heavy on the card design and utilizing images works well for those longing...
Folks from Simple Focus have spoken at events in the past and at our own ConvergeSE we will see JD Graffam speaking on how "Micro-Interactions Matter". Simple Focus uses eye-tracking with their customers to help create good UX - so their research to build their UI is...
We came across this site, Sweden and Migration last week - and since we're kind of fans of Sweden (seen partially by what hangs in our office - Thor's Hammer Mjölnir below), we thought "perfect"! The site is a huge interactive infographic about how, "migration has...
The new Brooklyn Bridge Park site, done by Kettle NYC, is kind of a monumental achievement, like the bridge and park themselves. There is a lot going on here, from the infinite scroll card design on the home page, to the three - four different forms of navigation...
We hadn't reviewed an app product site for a while, and at first I wasn't sure to just keep this one as a resource for Radar, but I liked the basic clean look of Nucleo's site. With suped-up intros and pre-loaders becoming a new trend, I like the fact that this site...
This is a clever site from We Make Awesome Sh, out of the UK. Besides the duck and beach ball css-transitions, and transparent svg in a div, with the class of "scribble" that is set to be a fixed overlay over the entire page (below) .. there is a "Don't like swearing...
The thought of going to Austin for ramen? Well, based on the design of the Michi Ramen site by Sputnik Creative.. yeah sure. Love the simple look and feel of this site, with cool textures that give some depth to this site. Remember, restaurant sites are usually...
"If you want to be heard through the din, try being clearer, not louder." We don't normally showcase too many blogs anymore - and never do that for a blog post - except this one. From Sparks Studio in London, Michael Gough has a cool blog post that could be a stand...
Like how Propeller Communications out of London uses the off-screen nav hamburger - but with a caveat - they start the site with with the hamburger open in vertical nav, that you can decide to close to gain screen real estate. From the Designer: Propeller is a full...
Cool and quick one-pager, full-width site from Hinge out of the UK. Like the slightly off-kilter script lettering, along with the regular copy - accented with the same angular thing going on with the color sections. From the Designer: We're a new digital agency, less...
Cool site from Grid & Flow out of Orlando - like the off-screen / vertical navigation on the left side - different than most. Also like this trend again of Instagram feeds that make up a section of the site - makes for a better look and feel with those filters....
Well - I like clean and simple - and not too many are going to be more clean and simple than Jens Windolf's portfolio site out of Hamburg. I love the text treatment here, and the fact that you can change over to a portfolio view that is image based too. And like how...
Clean and quick agency site out of Singapore from The Pixelage. Like the video background and the non-scrolling that basically gives you an A or B option to find out about the company, or look at their work. I think too often, we beg people to contact us, without...
