Decent site from Snipcart out of Quebec - one thing I like is the mega-dropdown in the nav - keeps the site cleaner. Also like the line illustrations on each page (and in the nav) - cool. From the Designer: Complete marketing website for Snipcart, a developer-first...
vin.li
I want one. Cool site from Vinli that allows wifi and apps for your car - I like the movement and quick svg line drawings to give a cool, but light feel to the site. And, um, I want one.
Radar #123
Each week, we do a round up of curated "stuff from the interwebs" that we call Radar. In this week's 123rd Radar: 8 Killer eBooks on UX Design That You Can Get For Free UX design is something very close to our hearts at UsabilityTools, so we’ve scoured the web for you...
Eighty East
Good looking real estate site for Eighty East out of Melbourne, Australia - done by Yoke. I actually like the Chinese version a little better - the characters fit in with the aesthetic of the site even better in that version. Twitter: @welcometoyoke Role: Designer &...
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...
Modsy
The product looks pretty stellar and the website matches it quite well. I dig the simplified lines and approach to the layout. The slider being place down lower on the page scroll is well placed and timed too.
Flatiron
Very nicely done business oriented website here. It's enterprise-y in all it's glory but also very slick and not busted. I love the way the main nav changes color to indicate state on the page. Then when you hit the section as you scroll that walks you through the...
Google Ventures
Another stunning version of the Google Ventures website. I love the slight parallax on the main imagery paired with the overall minimalism. The new logo is quite nice as well.
The Forecaster
Have you ever watched a movie (documentary or historicalish fiction), and wished you had some extra insight into the background of the film? Well, for The Forecaster (see info below - and, well the website attached), they've done just that. It has a Financial Times...
Radar #121
Each week, we do a round up of curated "stuff from the interwebs" that we call Radar. In this week's 121st Radar: User behaviour Websites and apps are designed for compulsion, even addiction. Should the net be regulated like drugs or casinos? Free Download: Clocks...
NJ(LA)
um... wut? Crazy, but cool site from Nicole Jacek out of California - be careful clicking on the circle on the top left with your headphones on... or off. Enjoy some experimental stuff!