Web Design Inspiration Curated
Geckoboard
Apparently dashboards are still a thing. When I figured out what this was I had a flashback to designing overly-detailed mockups of graphs and some sort of thing that looks like a speedometer that has no possibility of ever being made functional (but it would probably...
gaia interactive
A very colorful and clean design for gia interactive. It's a perfect fit and seems to provide perfect function for the gaming company. It's the right amount of stuff and balanced design elements across the breadth of this site. Lovely work. Case study on the...
Summly
Summly has been in the news lately because the creator, Nick D'Aloisio, has just sold it for $30m to Yahoo. And he's only 17. I haven't used the app itself (it's not available in the US), but it looks very cool and smart. The video is entertaining and is a great...
Richard Photo Lab
Lovely website design. I particularly love the way the logo changes to a smaller mark as you scroll down the page. Overall the feeling of the design is very comforting and fresh. It's a responsive solution as well which is a nice finishing touch.
Kotaku
The new Kotaku site is part of a rollout of a new platform from Gawker. Other sites using the same platform so far include Jalopnik and Deadspin. It's helpful that they've linked to a post about the new look, but it doesn't give us much insight into why the new site...
The Church London
Overall a pretty simple design but it works great here. The mobile approach is a great choice, generally speaking, but for this party bar specifically it's done right. I like the big twitter and facebook icons across the top of the page, those are going to be very...
Romotive
This website has an interesting story to tell. Meet Romo. It's a fun and whimsical robot/device and the pages of this website really dig in and give you the narrative of each of the major points of this thing. How it all works, how to buy/sell it and "hey look it's...
Build
I really dig this splash page for the Build Windows conference series. It's simple and straight forward but there is also a little magic baked in with the mask like parallax design. We work on a lot of similar type work here at UMS for our conferences and this design...
teehan+lax
I love how this site puts just what's needed out for you to see. Just a single headline at first but then you notice the fixed header and built for mobile navigation design. The entire nav slides down to give you an easy to take in navigation design, just main links...
Heliom
There are a ton of really great interactions both for desktop and mobile worked into the Heliom website design. The thing I love most about it is it feels very new, like new interactions for me. As I make my way through the different experiences on this site, from...
Dwolla
The Dwolla site design is of good quality and execution. I like the different configuration and stacking of the elements on the page as you scale the page down to smaller screen widths. What I like most of all is the use of negative space between the main/topmost copy...
Shun Cutlery
Submitted by: Jordan Sowers @jordanpsowers Role: Designer A great responsive ecommerce experience for Shun Cultery. Inspired by the blade-making traditions of ancient Japan, today’s highly skilled Shun artisans produce blades of unparalleled quality and exquisite...
954lab
Pretty fun design with some nifty interactions baked in. It's also a really well done responsive selection given it's interactions. It's fairly clean and straight forward too which is refreshing in this case.
Jacksonville Art Walk
This site perfectly sells the Jacksonville Art Walk. The colors are inviting the type if accessible to most people yet fresh feeling. It's also responsive which is a great move since a lot of folks will hit this site while at the event or close trying to find their...
Jason Designed
Overall pretty simple design. I just like scrolling and looking through the work, in a way it's almost minimal in this aspect, but the color palette is pretty expansive so i'm not quite sure I can give it that moniker. It scales down to support smaller screen widths,...
Atolye15
I love the visual transitions between section to section. They are simple yet feel almost fantastical as you scroll the page. The logo even changes sizes as you get to the fixed header when you scroll. Super nice details like this make me smile.
Hybrid Conf
Beautiful asymmetrical design here for the Hybrid Conf website. I love it when simple design solutions wind up having such great dynamic results. The offset sidebar with the rounded profile pics just set the whole thing off right. I like the big subscribe box and the...
Mark Simonson
The site’s layout was planned from scratch to be fully-flexible and responsive. Users can easily browse Mark’s typefaces and read his articles from any modern device. We’re particularly fond of how the fonts page turned out. - From Parvel's Post on the website design...
George Badea
Lots of interesting interactions in this website. with some neat easter egg(ish) things, like the skeleton face as you scroll down. Everything seems smooth as you use it and pretty natural in terms of the transitions.
Peugeot Hybrid4
I've always been a fan of comic books and graphic novels. I'm also a huge fan of experimental projects that push the boundaries of what we think is possible with websites. Peugeot Hybrid4 is a perfect example of one of these sites. The artwork is gorgeous and the...
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