Web Design Inspiration Curated

FABRIK

I love the straightforward minimal approach of this site, coupled with it's easy to use interface for filtering by product type and color it brings me closer to the product than most other product pages I visit. The grids of colorful rows are just magical in drawing...

Macaw Scarlet

I met with a VC during ConvergeSE that was meeting with Macaw, and was asking what we as designers thought of something like Macaw's Scarlet - something to disrupt Dreamweaver... I, uh, as someone who builds "by hand" - honestly, I said "I don't get it". Then I saw...

Oculus

Boom. Sometimes that is just what you should say with a site review. Boom.

The Boat

SBS out of Australia has produced a website called 'The Boat' - which is an interactive graphic novel about escape after the Vietnam War - based on the story by Nam Le. Incredible use of scroll jacking and on-scroll actions in a parallax web universe. It's complete...

Bryanston

Great images permeate throughout this site for Bryanston School in the SouthWest UK - which is really good. I think the most interesting decision they made of the site was maybe for accessibility - there's a link in the footer to see the "High Visibility Version" of...

Radar #97

In this week's Radar: UX: a Process or a Task? Designing for Disappearing Interfaces Can You Fix a Bad Design? Here’s Where to Start How to Go from Freelancer to Professional Designer The Psychology Behind a Great CTA Why Mobile First May Already Be Outdated Design...

Levy Restaurants

Like the power of the video background on the Levy Restaurants site as you start - then like the hand-drawn fonts and icons. The site looks pretty hip and with it, which seems to be the aim of the restaurants themselves. @UKLevy

Xome

Pretty cool experience for a search based website. I like how the search is focused on top of the main hero image space. Keeps it front and center. There's very little small screen width experience here but overall for desktop it's tops. Cool form elements to play...

Casper

I just love it when a nice brand has a minimal approach to it's website. Casper is a great example of what a minimal approach can do for you. The messaging is crystal clear and simple and there are still some really great interaction sections on the site to boot....

GWT

Fairly straightforward design here. Clearly an informative experience, much like a book. The mobile view isn't that spectacular but it doesn't really have to be. I like the interaction on the search in the top right a lot.

The Chemical Brothers

The Chemical Brothers are back after a little hiatus - and since music is a personal thing, I'll just comment that I like their new stuff - love the new site too. It's wild, and fit's the band's image / music. Exceptional parallax work done on the History Page - don't...

Sulu

Good clean design on Sulu, a CMS built on Symfony. We almost listed it in Radar as a resource instead of the Gallery , but we liked the white space and the little animations that happen on-scroll. @sulu_io : Handcrafted in the Alps Privately funded by...

Master Channel

When we were in Nashville last week for BDConf, I walked into a concert for one of Master Channel's clients, (no, not R5 with Ross Lynch from Disney's Austin and Ally... which my kids watch..) but country star, Kip Moore. And yes, I used the website they built to find...

Quiet Revolution

As extroverted as I can be sometimes through my writing, among friends and family, and when I'm acting - I actually have an introverted nature in many social situations. That's part of the gist of the Quite Revolution (from a philosophy standpoint), based off of TED...

Brand Uber

Always interesting to see brand / design / style guidelines from companies and products you use on a daily basis, like this one from Uber. Very clean and minimal, but with a few little interaction pieces - you can see they've taken time to make this section of their...

Restaurant Bon

Elegant and simple site for Restaurant Bon out of Paris - designed by Uniiti also out of Paris. Two things to point out - on the Food Menu (Carte) page, the use of the sticky positioning of the side bar is smart. Also, like the reservation modal and how it fits in...

The Fallen

The Fallen is an interesting website, especially to a history and WWII buff like me. Granted, the majority of the site is video based - but as the author / coder Neil Halloran points out, "In the interactive version, the interactions are at around 7:21, and 16:17. And...

AIGA Design Conference 2015

AIGA just released their site for the AIGA Design Conference 2015 (in October). Lovely all the way around - from the "revival" art (that might be changed out periodically? See the current site and the image below) - to how everything works on-scroll. Looking at the...

Radar #96

In this week's Radar: 12 Gurus Got 5 Questions About How They Set Their Rate Why Web Design is Dead How To Export SVG Patterns Sticky Positioning with Nothing but CSS Copy & Paste & The Web How To Center In CSS Page Scroll Effects How To Design Social Media...

Channel Islands Surfboards

What says "cool" better than a surfboard? Really besides the spectacular images of surfers and the surf community, the best part for me is the informative pages for surfboards themselves (including some with a 3d preview) and the interactive customizable 'Board...