Web Design Inspiration Curated

Ka’ana Resort

I can't recall where I saw this description for the map design from first (if it's you please let us know in the comments below) but I it sums it up perfectly: Awesome interactive travel map for Belize. Featuring three levels of zoom with css animations, jQuery photo...

Seattle Cider Company

The Seattle Cider Company website uses flat illustrations and simple interactions to control the narrative of the cider making process. The design style is hip and minimal with a few nifty tricks (like the slide-in fixed nav) and a lot of character. The narrative...

My Fly Fit

This is a fast loading video based site that was made for a large screen. It has subtle parallax elements that don't detract from the main video feature of the site. They could probably go with a cleaner social media linking system, but since it's a new product site,...

Pearbuzz

Love the colors and icon/illustration work on this site. The layout is pretty formulaic by design trend standards but sometimes that's okay and with well designed elements you can really make things sing.

Rijks Museum

There is some really neat design stuff going on with this site. I love how the "Rijks Museum" overlays and play with the slider. Then the top nav is just fun to mess with. Nice responsive work here too.

Offscreen Magazine

Offscreenmag.com looks great at all screen sizes. I really enjoy the balance of the typography and soft grays. The site does a great job of balancing a lot of information with a minimal design language. Simple and elegant. We get the mag and that's nifty too. 🙂

Vest

Vest provides a really nice loading experience, considering it is a site that transfers 1.4MB when loaded. The main view loads a simple graphic and then loads in the heavier images whenever they are a available. The effect is something like a load screen that doesn't...

Bruno Felicio

Really simple minimal approach done well. I like the logo, then to see it used again on top of the guy's self-portrait illustration. Nice simple layout that let's me see the work really fast while looking engaging at the same time.

Ashley St Pier

Ashleystpier.com is big and beautiful. This kid is drinking the minimal Kool-Aid and it is working. Very nice portfolio site with minimal detailing and superb balance.

Ruimtewerkers

I like the stark black and white box design of this website. Very simple and clean yet it almost feels gritty due to the way the boxes are used. That fixed nav section is pretty slick. I like how it just folds down to "nav" for mobile screen widths too.

FAAL

Very nice portfolio site. I really dig the dark design and the simple way the title of the work is presented overly large like that. Very cool.

96 Elephants

Beautiful website for a good cause. I really like how the petition slide-out menu works, kind of following you down the page as you scroll end bouncing out when you click. Beautiful photography too. Sign it and maybe save an elephant man!

clemson.edu

Really nice Responsive design solution for a major university website. The website is so huge (like most Univ. sites are) that i'm not going to go into any subpage stuff. The main thing I want to point out is the way the navigation is worked into the hero area as a...

Metalab

I really like the overall simplicity in this design. It get's you to the point really really fast. I think it boarders on being too subtle at times, but that's not always a bad thing 🙂 I love the visual rhythm in the work page the most. They could keep stacking work...

AG Leader

You see these nice responsive sites with their sticky nav and circular images and slick transitions and think, "Yeah, that's cool, they did everything right." I'll be honest, you don't typically see this much content loaded in and still embody those nice details in...

Elixr

Neat app site design. I really like how the top navigation comes from the bottom(ish) of the space you see after the initial home page area loads. Sliding up to take it's place at the top of the page. Then the slight parallax behind each screenshot, then how you can...

Engine Yard

Beautiful redesign of the Engine Yard website. What I like to read most is that they focused on the content first and dug into what people needed to get out of the website before any sort of fanciness. We also dug deep into our site and found what worked for visitors...

We Are Mammoth

The We Are Mammoth website is a simple site that feels tight and focused in content, clear in message and definitive in style. Not much more to say. Good stuff.

Drew Wilson

Drew Wilson's portfolio site is a delightful experience. From the first few examples of products down to just digging through his project timeline it's smart and easy to take in. Well done sir.

Swatch SI System Watch

Fun product page for the Swatch SI System Watch. It makes strong use of timed animated images of the watches, letting you get a sense of their tactile quality as you scroll. I also dig the map, click on a store location to see the way the map responds. It's subtle but...

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