Web Design Inspiration Curated

MOLAMIL

Fun, fun, fun. I like this site from Molamil out of Denmark - even if the wack-a-mole heads of the employees are a little creepy... Great transitions into other pages - and fun vibe all the way through! Submitted by: Joakim Norman Twitter: @molamil Role: Designer...

Frank Underwood 2016

We don't review political websites normally - And - maybe I'm a little politically jaded, but he's the only candidate that I've seen that's actually honest with his intent. If you don't immediately recognize this as a reference to NetFlix's House of Cards - I can't...

Format

You know, I have heard a lot of belly-aching from designers about pre-designed website platforms like Format (not specifically them, but others). My question to them has always been, "listen, is that website meeting the customer's needs? Yes? Then what's wrong with...

Beattie Bailey

I think we would have replaced our wedding planner with Beattie Bailey (out of London), just based on their website. Love the framing of the site, the movement (from top to bottom, and in the logo), and the nav (how it starts in the footer, and moves up on scroll to...

Ramotion

Good, clean design from Ramotion out of San Francisco. Very work-centered, and just enough color and animation to make the first three work samples pop.

Si le Soleil

Pretty crazy site design. I love the animated interactions and imagery and stuff. It's also pretty rad that they were able to keep it pretty much intact on smaller mobile screen widths too. Check out that nav design too, pretty intense but super rewarding on desktop.

Space City

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...

MailChimp 2015

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...

SFCD

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...

Worlds Fair USA

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...

Cracker Barrel

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 -...

Radar #122

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...

YZDesigns

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.

Dan Strogiy

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.

Motiv

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....

Keep Portland Weird

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...

Diyanshu

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,...

Sunday Grind

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.

Fable&Co

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...

Norwegian Airlines

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...