Love when a community project gains momentum like the Make Something Edmonton project has. The design is excellent all the way through - take a few moments to "flip" through the site - it's not like other sites we see here at UMS - and we love them for that. From the...
Nifty one-page agency site out of Athens from The Research Hive. They keep to the hive theme in their shapes, and like their SVG work / regular and animated. From the Designer: The Research Hive is a team of senior researchers who share the same passion for market...
Love the simplicity of this design - plus this is the second site I've seen recently that has images in each page that are activated by hovering on relative links. The links to the Work show large background photos when hovered upon. It's cool design that's fairly...
How do you market books that have been around for 50 to 300 years? Put their famous quotes into a web based, literary "guess the book", spin the bottle (most likely drinking) game. Maybe that's not the full intent of Penguin Books' Little Black Classics site, they say...
Dig the full-width, parallax slideshow on the home page of the 8 Bis Branding site out of Montreal. Found it interesting that they went for filtered search on two pages - Projects and Culture - but the categories on each make sense. There's also some nice animated SVG...
This site has been out for a while, but while looking at shoes for races coming up, we found the Newton Running site - wow. From the cool navigation and transitions on the "home page" after the intro, to the interactive parts when viewing the shoes - this site has...
John has been helping us work on posts for UMS, and left me some comments that I figured were more relevant for the Visit Florida site than what I would have written - so here's his first post: Heavy on the card design and utilizing images works well for those longing...
Folks from Simple Focus have spoken at events in the past and at our own ConvergeSE we will see JD Graffam speaking on how "Micro-Interactions Matter". Simple Focus uses eye-tracking with their customers to help create good UX - so their research to build their UI is...
We came across this site, Sweden and Migration last week - and since we're kind of fans of Sweden (seen partially by what hangs in our office - Thor's Hammer Mjölnir below), we thought "perfect"! The site is a huge interactive infographic about how, "migration has...
The new Brooklyn Bridge Park site, done by Kettle NYC, is kind of a monumental achievement, like the bridge and park themselves. There is a lot going on here, from the infinite scroll card design on the home page, to the three - four different forms of navigation...
We hadn't reviewed an app product site for a while, and at first I wasn't sure to just keep this one as a resource for Radar, but I liked the basic clean look of Nucleo's site. With suped-up intros and pre-loaders becoming a new trend, I like the fact that this site...
This is a clever site from We Make Awesome Sh, out of the UK. Besides the duck and beach ball css-transitions, and transparent svg in a div, with the class of "scribble" that is set to be a fixed overlay over the entire page (below) .. there is a "Don't like swearing...
The thought of going to Austin for ramen? Well, based on the design of the Michi Ramen site by Sputnik Creative.. yeah sure. Love the simple look and feel of this site, with cool textures that give some depth to this site. Remember, restaurant sites are usually...
"If you want to be heard through the din, try being clearer, not louder." We don't normally showcase too many blogs anymore - and never do that for a blog post - except this one. From Sparks Studio in London, Michael Gough has a cool blog post that could be a stand...
Like how Propeller Communications out of London uses the off-screen nav hamburger - but with a caveat - they start the site with with the hamburger open in vertical nav, that you can decide to close to gain screen real estate. From the Designer: Propeller is a full...
Cool and quick one-pager, full-width site from Hinge out of the UK. Like the slightly off-kilter script lettering, along with the regular copy - accented with the same angular thing going on with the color sections. From the Designer: We're a new digital agency, less...
Cool site from Grid & Flow out of Orlando - like the off-screen / vertical navigation on the left side - different than most. Also like this trend again of Instagram feeds that make up a section of the site - makes for a better look and feel with those filters....
Well - I like clean and simple - and not too many are going to be more clean and simple than Jens Windolf's portfolio site out of Hamburg. I love the text treatment here, and the fact that you can change over to a portfolio view that is image based too. And like how...
Clean and quick agency site out of Singapore from The Pixelage. Like the video background and the non-scrolling that basically gives you an A or B option to find out about the company, or look at their work. I think too often, we beg people to contact us, without...
Really dig this portfolio site from Justin Lerner out of Philadelphia. It's fairly unassuming at first, where everything is grey and looks like wireframes - but on hover and then on click, with cool transitions, open up into strong, flat design. It's a nice concept...
In the US today it is the official Opening Day of baseball, and tonight the championship game of men's college basketball - so appropriately we look at the 20th Anniversary redesign of a site that is now ubiquitous with sports in the US: ESPN.go.com With as many or...
We see so many local websites that are just, well, not good. Our buddy Joe Lemmons @joslemmons just finished this site for the Five Points Association in Columbia, SC - and friends aside, we were pretty wowed with the work. So we decided to go a little more in-depth...
Poppy, from Quirky out of New York, caught my eye because once upon a time I was COO of a start up that tried to do some of the same things in the pet industry before we had a lot of technology that is ingrained into our daily lives today... Besides some awesome...
I've read a lot of praise and criticism for this portfolio site by Allen Yu out of New York. This is one of those times where I'm going to let the work speak for itself, with the overtone of: art is open to interpretation. What's your interpretation? Tweet us:...
So John that works with us here at Unmatchedstyle sent me this yesterday - Storyland Studios near LA - made by Sputnik Studios in Austin. John's quote on it was: "the content is of course what excites me the most but the site is well made I think (How could you go...
To say Isaac Paavola has moxie is kind of an understatement based on his portfolio here. It's intro is unexpected, and then there is good fading of sections as you scroll down. The movement of the portfolio banner is a sweet idea, and like how it's used again as...
I admit, at first I was taken aback on the Website Store UK website out of the UK.. (wait, what did I write there?) - mainly because of the name and the image of the iPhone and iMac site mock ups in front of the full width and height images. Pressing on, found the...
High fashion is followed by slick design in this site for Ellen Tracy, done by The Charles NYC. I already like the work that The Charles does (like the Bloomberg Media site we reviewed a little while back) - so when they submitted this site, I was looking forward to...
Xavier Roggen's portfolio site out of Brussels is minimal, but there are some cool takeaways from it (we try to get those in each site we look at). I like the full width image slider background and the filtered images he uses. Sometimes style is a matter of content...
tl;dr - Details are the details - Built with Polymer ( I think ) - It's really fast - page to page transition - good color palette - it's really really fast - builds upon start up conference tropes - photo of a chemex on the homepage, really? - super sexy responsive...
